SATURDAY: BBC3’s live music and drama event Frankenstein’s Wedding walked up the aisle with nearly 450,000 viewers - but fell short of the channel’s usual audience figures.
The 75-minute musical drama went out live from Leeds’ gothic Kirkstall Abbey from 8pm and was watched by an average audience of 440,200 (1.89%), according to overnight Barb data supplied by Attentional.
However, with hefty competition from Six Nations rugby on BBC1 and Ant & Dec’s Push the Button on ITV1, it failed to match BBC3’s three-month slot average of 534,400 (2.15%).
The drama picked up a further 201,000 (8.86%) on its repeat at 1.45am.
But it could not match BBC3’s previous forays into live event broadcasts.
Manchester Passion drummed up 539,000 (3.2%) in April 2006, while in December 2007 Liverpool Nativity drew overnights of 710,000 (3%).
Elsewhere in multichannel, E4’s US sitcom The Big Bang Theory generated 225,000 (1%) for 30 minutes from 8pm, while ITV2’s film Jurassic Park: The Lost World unearthed 469,000 (2.1%) from 7pm to 9.30pm.
BBC4 makes a Killing
At 9pm BBC4 Danish crime drama The Killing approached its conclusion with 416,000 (0.7%), with a further 393,000 (6.9%) staying up for the second instalment in the double bill. Both were up on the series average of 364,000 (0.6%). The series concludes on 26 March.
Sky Atlantic’s Boardwalk Empire continued with 227,600 (0.97%).
BBC3 repeated Comic Relief series 24 Hour Panel People, airing all five instalments back-to-back from 9.20pm to 12.15am.
The highlights of the 24-hour task conducted by David Walliams, which originally aired uninterrupted online, entertained an average audience of 315,000 (0.55%).
The inital run of the series, stripped from 13-17 March in the run up to Comic Relief, averaged 431,000 (2.5%) for BBC3.
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