ITV1 also dominated the peak-time schedules on Saturday night, with the second series of Pop Idol going from strength to strength. The channel's investigation into the history of drug-taking at the corporation attracted a respectable 2.1 million, but could have been even more popular had it not faced such stiff competition on ITV1. However, ITV's Sunday night success did have one positive outcome for the BBC - it limited viewing figures for the Channel 4 documentary Snorting Coke at the BBC. ITV1 enjoyed a strong night all round with Coronation Street attracting 10.5 million viewers and a 48% share and an all-star special of Alright on the Night notching up ratings of 9.5 million. Just 4.6 million watched the first episode of The Debt, a two-part drama starring Warren Clarke as a retired safecracker, who is determined to go straight but is persuaded to do one last job. The 10.4 million figure was just 100,000 short of last night's audience for Coronation Street and makes Rosemary and Thyme one of ITV1's most successful drama launches of recent years. ![]() The hour-long programme, in which two gardening enthusiasts discover a plot to murder a wealthy landowner, attracted 10.4 million viewers according to unofficial overnights, more than twice as many as watched BBC1's rather more hard-hitting new Sunday night drama, The Debt.ĭespite a mauling by the critics, one of whom said it should be "humanely destroyed under controlled circumstances like the senile, incontinent mutt it is", Rosemary and Thyme attracted 43% of viewers compared with the 19% who watched The Debt which was well received by TV reviewers today.
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