Vyle figures
Jennifer Saunders audience slumps
Jennifer Saunders’s new sitcom is proving a turn-off for viewers.Just 1.3million tuned in to the second instalment of The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle last night.
It means the show, about a confrontational daytime chat show host, lost 500,000 viewers – or more than a quarter of its viewers – since its opening episode.
Just six per cent of the total TV audience were watching the show at 9pm on BBC Two.
The Peter Serafinowicz Show, which immediately followed in the channel’s new Thursdays Are Funny strand, suffered a similar fate, also losing 500,000 viewers.
It attracted an audience of 1million, or five per cent of all viewers.
Earlier in the week, Flight of the Conchords’s HBO show made a modest debut on BBC4 with just 161,000 viewers, a one per cent audience share of the audience at 9.30pm on Tuesday.
Published: 12 Oct 2007
