'Coronation Street' Sunday edition tops 7m with 'Emmerdale' lead-in
Published Jul 9 2012, 13:09 BST | By Paul Millar
Coronation Street managed to top the 7m mark on Sunday (July 8) evening with +1 included despite facing tough opposition.Peter Barlow's fury at arch nemesis Nick Tilsley attracted 6.48m (26.8%) to ITV1 at 7.30pm, and an impressive 558k (2.6%) an hour later on +1.
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The Weatherfield soap pulled ahead of Countryfile, which received a lead-in of nearly 9 million from the BBC's evening news. Andy Murray's Wimbledon final loss gave BBC One a huge advantage leading into primetime.
Only 6.1m tuned in the last time Corrie was screened on a Sunday night, in June.
Marlon's surprise offer to Ashley in Emmerdale, which was screened at 7pm, logged 5.12m (21.9%) and 374k (1.6%) on timeshift - equalling 5.4m.
The Coronation Street Omnibus aired in the morning on ITV2 to an audience of 315k (3.3%).
BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional
get rid of all these soaps living too much in the past for god sake its the twentieth century we are living in now give us our monies worth its what we pay for if you ask me... your comments would be appreciated.......if you agree
July 10th 2012 at 3:43am
i am glad they have ditched it because every time you turn on your television that is all you get is repeats these days and if i may add every hour of the day through the day its the same and the soaps all have the same story lines thank god i do not watch them no more depressing....... and to think this is what we pay for american shows is so much more interesting minus the ads would help too
July 10th 2012 at 3:34am
who's the Der now lol
July 9th 2012 at 7:37pm
How has corrie hit the 7.0m when they only got 6.48,der
July 9th 2012 at 2:14pm
558k viewers on itv1+1 :)
July 9th 2012 at 4:38pm
Why have ITV scrapped the late evening edition of Coronation Street on ITV2? It just doesn't make any sense. I am thinking it is all about saving money!! Come on ITV, lets have the late edition repeats back on ITV2.
July 9th 2012 at 1:28pm
Probably because they were that late, and never on at any particular time, that hardly anybody watched them!
July 9th 2012 at 4:19pm