A BBC documentary about Ukip featuring a former councillor who was expelled after making “deeply racist” comments was watched by nearly 1.5 million viewers on Sunday night.
Meet the Ukippers was a hit for BBC2 with 1.42 million viewers – an 8.5% share of the audience from 10pm.
It was BBC2’s best performing factual programme in the 10pm Sunday slot for two and a half years, since Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Pornstars had 1.8 million viewers (9.4%) in June 2012.
The 50-minute documentary featured Rozanne Duncan, who now stands as an independent councillor in the east Kent constituency where Ukip leader Nigel Farage will run for parliament, saying she had a “problem with people with negroid features”.
Farage said Duncan “clearly doesn’t have any understanding of the deep offence she has caused by her comments, and we took the right decision”.
But Duncan later defended her remarks and claimed that she was the victim of a hidden agenda within the party.
Casual Vacancy v Indian Summers (v Mr Selfridge) - round two!
Both BBC1’s Casual Vacancy and Channel 4’s Indian Summers lost ground in the Sunday night TV drama battle.
BBC1’s JK Rowling adaptation drew 4.8 million viewers, a 20.5% share, from 9pm, down 27% on last week’s opener of 6.6m (27.5%).
The second outing of Channel 4’s epic £14m Indian Summers was watched by 2.2 million (8.1%), down 24% on last week’s opening episode, which had 2.9 million viewers, a 13.4% share.
In between ITV’s Mr Selfridge did rather better, relatively speaking, with 3.8 million viewers (15.1%) up from last week’s 3.5 million (14.5%).
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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