1m watch fake news on C4

Hat Trick’s one-off comedy panel show, fronted by Richard Osman and Katherine Ryan, was narrowly down on the channel’s slot average of 1.3m (6.2%) for the past 12 months.

More than half (53%) of the audience was male, against a 45% average – while the 17.5% 16-34 age demographic was in line with the norm.

The show also outperformed BBC2’s comedy panel show Insert Name here which concluded its second run from 10pm-10.30pm with 790,000 (4.9%).

Across its six-parts the Sue Perkins-hosted format entertained an average of 915,000 (5.6%), in line with the opening run in January 2016.

The three-part in-house format was marginally down on the 1.6m (7.5%) slot average. However, it overpowered the 1.1m (5.1%) who tuned in for the opening episode of Channel 5’s Secrets of the SAS: In Their Own Words in the same slot in September. 

Opposite, C4’s fake news season continued with one-off documentary Confessions of the Paparazzi which informed 1.2m (5.5%), according to Barb data provided by overnights.tv.

Kudos’ thriller bowed out with another slot-winning performance after its final instalment aired the day after its usual Sunday home.

Across its four-parts the Louise Doughty-penned adaptation gripped an average of 5.3m (23.9%), comfortably ahead of the 4m (17%) who tuned in to BBC1’s recent Sunday 9pm drama My Mother and Other Strangers from November.

Apple Tree Yard dented Left Bank Pictures’ The Halcyon which slipped to a series low of 3.3m (15.9%) on ITV after struggling against Silent Witness last week.

Brinkworth Films’ one-off film about a woman’s journey through the legal system was unable to match the slot average of 1.1m (5.3%).

However it did enough to outperform the 730,000 (5.9%) who tuned in for ITN Productions’ 90-minute feature Slum Britain: 50 Years On in a Tuesday 10pm slot in December.