200k pass through The Tunnel

Kudos Film and Television’s eight-parter got underway with an audience nine times larger than the channel’s slot average of 36,000 (0.2%) for the past 12 months.

The Anglo-French crime show was Sky Atlantic’s biggest series launch of the year – ahead of The 100 Code (96,000) and Vinyl (49,000 / 0.3%).

However, it was unable to muster the 433,000 (2%) who tuned in to the first series opener in 2013, according to Barb data supplied by overnights.tv.   

The Tunnel was followed by the first two episodes of Julia Davis comedy Camping from 10pm to 11pm. The show opened with 71,000 (0.4%) before falling to 35,000 (0.3%) for its second instalment. The channel’s average audience across the hour is 64,000 (0.4%).

From 7pm to 8pm on W, Spark Media Partners’ food format Battlechefs reached its seventh episode with 40,000 (0.2%). The show has generated a series average of 51,000 (0.3%) with three episodes remaining.

Boomerang’s 20-part dating format Strip Date got underway on 5Star from 8pm to 9pm. The first two episodes entertained an average of 56,000 (0.3%), around half the 97,000 (0.5%) slot average.

Clerkenwell Films six-parter bowed out with a series average of 294,000 (1.4%), after opening with 539,000 (2.5%).

It was down on the 495,000 (2.3%) slot average and also failed to outperform Eleven Film’s Glue which entertained 322,000 (2.2%) late last year.

The A Word continued to dominate the evening’s terrestrial viewing after the BBC1 drama gripped a steady 4.2m (20.6%) from 9pm to 10pm.

Opposite, Nick Robinson’s Brexit two-parter Europe: Them Or Us informed 1.9m (9.6%), while Benefits by the Sea: Jaywick bowed out with 1.2m (6%) on Channel 5 – in line with the series average.

ITV format Drive slipped by 400,000 from last week’s opener to entertain 1.6m (7.8%), in line with Channel 4’s One Born Every Minute.