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Terry Pratchett's Going Postal delivers for Sky1

Sky1's latest Terry Pratchett adaptation, Going Postal, was the most-watched multichannel show of the day on Sunday, 30 May. Going Postal, the first instalment of a two-parter starring Richard Coyle, Claire Foy and David Suchet, attracted 879,000 viewers and a 5% audience share from 6pm. The drama had more than three times the Sky1 average audience share in the Sunday evening slot over the past three months. A new episode of US animated comedy import Family Guy was the second most-watched multichannel show on Sunday, attracting 848,000 viewers (4.9%) from 10.20pm on BBC3. More4 gorges on Come Dine with Me repeats on Sunday evenings, with good reason – the factual entertainment format provided three of the top 10 most-watched multichannel programmes of the day. The 7.25pm edition attracted 785,000 viewers (4.1%), preceding it at 6.50pm another Come Dine with Me repeat drew 724,000 (4.1%), while the 6.15pm instalment attracted 605,000 (3.6%). ITV2's repeats of Saturday's Britain's Got Talent (6.30pm: 726,000/4%) and Britain's Got More Talent (8pm: 653,000/3%) are also Sunday night multichannel ratings winners. Filling out Sunday's multichannel top 10 were two movie repeats – ITV2's The Holiday (9pm: 587,000/3.3%) and Film4's Night at the Museum (9pm: 573,000/3%). Just missing out on the top 10 were new episodes of E4's Desperate Housewives (10pm: 540,000/3.1%) and Sky1's 24 (9pm: 439,000/2%). Five main terrestrial analogue networks BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel Five (available in all UK homes with TV, except Five, which reaches about 95%) BBC1 12.30pm-3.20pm: Formula One: the Turkish Grand Prix - 3.366 million/29.2% 7pm: Halcyon River Diaries - 3.715 million/20.2% 8pm: Countryfile - 3.654 million/16.8% 9pm: The Big Personality Test: a Child of Our Time Special - 2.739 million/12.3% BBC2 7.10pm: Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - 942,000/5.1% 9pm: An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (new series) - 1.672 million/7.5% 10pm: Lost: the Mystery of Flight 447 - 1.814 million/10.3% ITV1 7pm: The Seasons with Alan Titchmarsh - 2.426 million/13.2% 8pm: Lewis - 6.047 million/27.5% 10.15pm: The South Bank Show Revisited - 685,000/4.3% Channel 4 8pm: Come Dine with Me - 1.82 million/8.4%, C4+1 306,000/1.4% 9pm: Genius of Britain (new series) - 844,000/3.8%, C4+1 115,000/0.7% Five 7.15pm: Cricket on Five - 566,000/3% 8pm: Spider-Man (film rpt) - 1.102 million/5.1% Freeview/digital terrestrial TV free-to-air networks Available in 23.4m UK homes – 91.4% of total – as of 31/12/09. Source: Ofcom digital progress report, Q4 2009 BBC3 9pm: Wags, Kids and World Cup Dreams - 288,000/1.3% 10pm: Family Guy - 665,000/3.4% BBC4 10.05pm: Mark Lawson Talks to Vanessa Redgrave - 96,000/0.6% All ratings are unofficial overnight figures, including live and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, HD, +1 or other – unless otherwise stated • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".

Source: The Guardian ↗

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