Alistair McGowan's 'You Cannot Be Serious!' drops below 2m on ITV
Published Jun 18 2012, 11:29 BST | By Paul Millar
New ITV comedy show You Cannot Be Serious! has tumbled to a new low of under 2 million viewers.The Alistair McGowan-fronted clip show, which began with 2.2m a fortnight ago, amused 1.74m (8.9%) at 7pm and 141k (0.6%) on ITV1 +1 on Saturday night (June 16).
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With Harry Hill an executive producer, the format has been touted as a long-term successor for TV Burp, which ended in March.
The long-awaited fifth series of Primeval aired in the 6pm hour, bringing in 2.55m (14.1%) and 394k (2%) on timeshift. The batch of episodes has already aired on Watch.
Repeats of You've Been Framed and Agatha Christie's Poirot mustered 2.27m (10.8%) at 7.30pm (+1: 188k/0.7%) and 2.06m (9.3%) respectively.
Over on BBC One, Czech Republic v Poland scored 5.72m (26.4%) as Euro 2012 reached its second weekend. Pointless Celebrities (3.47m/19.2%) and an old Mrs Brown's Boys (3.5m/19.9%) aired either side of the football.
Channel 4's screening of Sister Act attracted 1.6m (7.6%) from 7pm (+1: 325k/1.5%), then 1.49m (7%) stayed for The Million Pound Drop Live at 9pm (+1: 235k/1.4%).
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Highlights of the Queen's Birthday Parade from the military in Trooping the Colour gave BBC Two its best rating of 2.56m (12.9%) between 6.30pm and 8pm. A second screening of 2011 drama The Young Victoria logged 1.78m (8.4%).
Big Brother anchored Channel 5's evening with 1.08m (4.8%) in the 9pm hour and 120k (0.6%) on timeshift. Law & Order: SVU followed with 821k (4.3%).
Overall, BBC One led primetime with 25.1%, while BBC Two finished ahead of ITV1 with 8.6% versus 8.3% (+1: 1%). Channel 4 claimed fourth place with 7% (+1: 1.3%), while Channel 5 had 3.9% (+1: 0.3%).
BBC Three and BBC HD's Euro 2012 live game between Greece and Russia netted 864k (3.9%) and 152k (0.7%) - and was the most-watched multichannel broadcast of the night.
BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional
Sparkle22 took the words right out by mouth! This Harry Hill wannabe is appalling and should have never made it onto TV. They've have tried to copy Harry Hill but just focused on sport. The so called "jokes" which are just voice overs or Alistair attempting to do an impression, are not funny. Just face it ITV Harry Hill is gone and you might actually have to go back to the drawing board and spend some money on something other then a clip show.
June 25th 2012 at 6:09pm
dire one of the worst programmes ever.
June 18th 2012 at 10:49pm
Primeval Series 5 did badly, no wonder. Most fans will have already bought the DVD or seen it on Watch, so few would be bothered to watch. ITV will now say viewing figures were too low and not bring it back, which is a big shame in my opinion.
June 18th 2012 at 5:08pm(+2 likes)
I completely agree, I hope watch pick it up if ITV axed it like they did before, it's a fantastic show
June 21st 2012 at 4:07pm(+1 like)
not surprising. it's appalling
June 18th 2012 at 1:46pm