James Corden’s The Wrong Mans, the comedy drama produced by the BBC with US on-demand service Hulu, returned to BBC2 with 2 million viewers.
The hour-long The Wrong Mans, which saw its intrepid – and largely hapless – heroes relocate from the UK to the US, had an 8.7% share of the audience from 9pm on Monday.
The Guardian’s review said the programme’s “sheer scale and ambition take your breath away” to which Corden, who wrote and stars in the show with Mathew Baynton, responded on Twitter that it was “very different to the series 1 review”.
The Wrong Mans was up against BBC1’s John Bishop’s Christmas Show, which had 4.2 million viewers, an 18.2% share, also from 9pm. In the same slot, ITV’s Tsunami: Survivors’ Stories was watched by 2.9 million viewers (12.7%).
Farewell then, Derek. We hardly knew you.
Ricky Gervais’s comedy drama Derek bid farewell with 850,000 viewers on Channel 4 from 10pm. The hour-long special had a 4.8% share of the audience.
It was up against BBC2’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks, watched by 1.5 million viewers (7.3%) at 10pm, and spoof rock doc Brian Pern: A Life in Rock which finished its three-part return with 714,000 viewers, a 4.3% share from 10.30pm.
Grrr! Hrrr! Gumph!
The World’s Strongest Man, once a mainstay of the BBC1 schedules,, was back on Channel 5 with 811,000 viewers, a 3.7% share from 6.55pm. The action from the Doncaster Arena included British representatives including Eddie Hall, the “oak from Stoke”.
All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC channels) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated
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