BBC1 sitcoms take largest audience share on Monday, with new E4 comedy My Mad Fat Diary pulling in nearly 500,000 viewers
E4's new 1990s teen comedy drama My Mad Fat Diary began with just under half a million viewers on Monday night.
The comedy, which stars Glaswegian comic Sharon Rooney in a show based on the real life diaries of 16-year-old Rae Earl, had 498,000 viewers, a 2.7% share of the audience, between 10pm and 11pm on Tuesday.
BBC1's Miranda has been beaten in the ratings by another comedy on the same channel, Mrs Brown's Boys.
While Miranda is the sort of comedy you could happily watch with (most of) your family, Mrs Brown's Boys' colourful language is strictly post-watershed viewing.
Miranda averaged 7.1 million viewers, a 26.6% share, between 9pm and 9.30pm on Monday, just short of the 7.3 million viewers (27.6%) who watched Mrs Brown's Boys which followed it at 9.30pm, also on BBC1.
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. The detective drama averaged 6.5 million viewers, a 24.6% share, between 9pm and 10pm.
At the same time on Channel 4, Embarrassing Fat Bodies was watched by 1.9 million viewers, a 7.2% share, beaten by Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother, with 2.2 million viewers (8.4%).
Celebrity Big Brother was followed on Channel 5 by Botched Up Bodies, watched by 1.2 million viewers (6.6%) between 10pm and 11pm.
Embarrassing Fat Bodies also lost out to the second half of BBC2's Winterwatch, the Springwatch (and Autumnwatch) spin-off which began a four-part run with an average of 2.3 million viewers (8.8%) between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.
Winterwatch was followed by BBC2 documentary Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here, which had 1.2 million viewers (5.3%).
*This week I am mostly wearing … a cassock*
New BBC1 daytime drama Father Brown, starring former Fast Show regular Mark Williams as GK Chesterton's mystery-solving man of god, began its 10-part run with 2.1 million viewers, a 24.8% share, between 2.10pm and 3pm.
It was more than double the 992,000 viewers who watched the debut of another new BBC1 daytime drama, Privates, about men doing national service, which ran in a similar slot last week.
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E4's new 1990s teen comedy drama My Mad Fat Diary began with just under half a million viewers on Monday night.
The comedy, which stars Glaswegian comic Sharon Rooney in a show based on the real life diaries of 16-year-old Rae Earl, had 498,000 viewers, a 2.7% share of the audience, between 10pm and 11pm on Tuesday.
BBC1's Miranda has been beaten in the ratings by another comedy on the same channel, Mrs Brown's Boys.
While Miranda is the sort of comedy you could happily watch with (most of) your family, Mrs Brown's Boys' colourful language is strictly post-watershed viewing.
Miranda averaged 7.1 million viewers, a 26.6% share, between 9pm and 9.30pm on Monday, just short of the 7.3 million viewers (27.6%) who watched Mrs Brown's Boys which followed it at 9.30pm, also on BBC1.
Both shows had the better of Lewis on the newly rebranded ITV channel
. The detective drama averaged 6.5 million viewers, a 24.6% share, between 9pm and 10pm.At the same time on Channel 4, Embarrassing Fat Bodies was watched by 1.9 million viewers, a 7.2% share, beaten by Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother, with 2.2 million viewers (8.4%).
Celebrity Big Brother was followed on Channel 5 by Botched Up Bodies, watched by 1.2 million viewers (6.6%) between 10pm and 11pm.
Embarrassing Fat Bodies also lost out to the second half of BBC2's Winterwatch, the Springwatch (and Autumnwatch) spin-off which began a four-part run with an average of 2.3 million viewers (8.8%) between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.
Winterwatch was followed by BBC2 documentary Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here, which had 1.2 million viewers (5.3%).
*This week I am mostly wearing … a cassock*
New BBC1 daytime drama Father Brown, starring former Fast Show regular Mark Williams as GK Chesterton's mystery-solving man of god, began its 10-part run with 2.1 million viewers, a 24.8% share, between 2.10pm and 3pm.
It was more than double the 992,000 viewers who watched the debut of another new BBC1 daytime drama, Privates, about men doing national service, which ran in a similar slot last week.
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Reported by guardian.co.uk 6 days ago.