Virgin 1 launch nite results: Martin Clunes beats Eddie Izzard
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Viewing figures for this Monday suggest that Virgin 1 did alright on its, ahem, virgin night. Flagship drama series The Riches, starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver pulled in around 323,000 viewers at 10, beating initial expectations that the channel would debut at 200,000.
By comparison, Sky One netted 460,000 viewers with Prison Break and the repeat of EastEnders on BBC3 got the most, pulling 531,000 punters.
However, the most watched programme on Monday night was ITV1’s Doc Martin, starring Martin Clunes (8.1 million viewers). Murphy’s Law on BBC1 got 4.1 million, and BBC2’s Inside a Sharia Court: This World got 1 million.
Yours truly was one of the 1.8 million who watched Channel 4 documentary The Great Wall of China.
