Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe hits record high
- Published: 19 November 2008 11:44
- Author: Jon Rogers
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BBC4's acerbic TV review show Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe gained its highest audience ever last night with 235,000 viewers (1.72% share) tuning in at 10.30pm.
The half-hour programme, which sees the Guardian columnist slate a variety of TV shows, managed to gain a high of 248,000 (1.99%) in the final quarter of an hour.
The start of the new series was over double the channel's slot average for the year so far of 113,000 (0.81%).
The BBC4 show's previous highest audience had been on 5 February last year when 224,000 (1.31%) tuned in at the earlier time of 10pm.
The show also pulled in a sizeable amount of both upmarket and younger viewers. Just over 79% of the audience were from the ABC1 demographic while 46.8% of those watching the show were aged between 16 and 34.
The BBC4 show had the edge over its closest rival More 4. The factual channel's True Stories: Kurt Cobain – About a Son picked up 145,000 (1.25%) over two hours with the timeshifted channel gaining another 8,000 an hour later.
BBC3's EastEnders was the big hit of the day in multichannel homes with the soap at 10pm with 1.1m (6.3%). The channel's ensuing Grownups at 10.30pm took 335,000 (2.41%).
Breaking the half a million mark at 10pm was ITV2's I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here Now! with the hour-long show on 532,000 (3.4%) with a further 103,000 watching on ITV2+1.
Action movie The Punisher on Five US at 10pm thrilled 298,000 (2.82%) for nearly two and a half hours and a further 36,000 on Five US+1.
