Ratings Focus: Richard and Judy

Tuesday night's (7 October) figures for Richard and Judy's new talk show on new digital channel Watch suggested it could take a while to build up its audiences.

The hour-long Richard and Judy's New Position at 8pm was seen by 100,000/0.53% in multichannel homes, with a further 43,000 watching on the entertainment channel's timeshifted option, Watch+1.

The show peaked in the final 15 minutes with 112,000/0.57%.

UK TV Gold+1, which filled the EPG slot before Watch launched, managed a year-to-date average for that timeslot of 49,000/0.25%.

The programme, which featured interviews with Samuel L Jackson and David Walliams, was a big hit among upmarket viewers, with a sizeable 72.2% of the audience coming from the ABC1 demographic. Younger viewers weren't too impressed, with just 18.4% of the audience aged between 16 and 34.

The new series was the star attraction in the new digital channel's line-up, but was not the channel's most watched show of the day. The Hollywood blockbuster Men in Black II at 10pm grabbed 203,000 (1.73%) for nearly two hours.

Richard and Judy's previous teatime show on Channel 4 averaged a total audience of 1.3 million/11% earlier this year.