ITV1 reality show beaten by New Tricks repeat

by Nikki Sandison, Brand Republic 20-May-09, 10:50

LONDON - ITV1 was left trailing the BBC and Five as only 2.6m tuned in to watch its reality show 'Holiday Showdown', which was soundly beaten by the BBC's 4.4m audience for a repeat of the hit detective drama 'New Tricks', according to unofficial overnight figures.

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'New Tricks', featuring an eccentric group of ex-police officers brought out of retirement to investigate unsolved crimes, attracted 4.4m viewers, a 19.8% share of the 9pm-10pm audience.

Last night's episode saw the team investigate the case of one of the last men to be hanged in Britain whose family claim he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

Five's 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', which saw a skydiver's leap from an aeroplane going hideously wrong, came in second with 2.8m viewers and a 12.6% share of the audience.

The final part of 'Holiday Showdown' on ITV1, a reality show in which two families go on each other's holidays, drew 2.6m viewers and an 11.9% share of the audience.

Self-confessed loners the Brown family swapped their ideal vacation of a survival course in Scotland for the party-loving Maybes family's all-inclusive break in Lanzarote.

The second part of Channel 4's '1066: The Battle for Middle Earth', which drummed home that a fifth of the UK is still owned by descendants of the 190 Normans granted land by William the Conqueror, won 1.3m viewers and a 6.2% share of the 9pm-10.30pm audience. Including Channel 4+1 figures it reached 1.4m viewers.

BBC Two's 'The Trouble with Working Women', focusing on the pay gap between men and women, scored 1.1m viewers and a 4.8% share of the 9pm-10pm audience.

Comments

Keith Geddes - 23/05/2009

GOOD.. so `quality` won out then!! And as for Middle Earth and the critic that slagged it off, it WAS based on historical record.. as far as possible, and I thought well worth watching.