Media
'Dirt' boosts Five US to best-ever numbers
Published Tuesday, Jul 10 2007, 13:06 BST | By James Welsh
The drama, which stars Courteney Cox as the editor-in-chief of a tabloid magazine alongside Ian Hart as a photographic journalist with manageable schizophrenia, averaged 615,000 viewers between 9pm and 10:10pm last night, equating to a 3.4% share. It peaked around half-way through with 663,000 viewers and a 3.6% share.
Those numbers made the show the most-watched multichannel programme in its slot and were way above the sub-1% share Five US usually achieves at the time. In the States, the programme regularly tops the Tuesday night cable TV leaderboard both in terms of total viewers and 18-49 demo share.
> Check out our full interview with Dirt star Ian Hart
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