'Skins' return pulls more than 'Pulling'

The return of Skins drew E4 level with the terrestrials last night with an audience of 884,000.

A 5.9% share for the first of the second series, at 10pm, beat the slot average of 153,000 (1%), and another 160,000 watched an hour later on E4+1. Its audience was 60% 16-34 and 52.9% from the ABC1 demographic.

The show was ahead of multichannel competition in the slot and beat BBC Two's Pulling which attracted a poor 565,000 (2.9%).

The struggling BBC Two performance also outpaced the EastEnders repeat on BBC One and movie Underworld on Film 4, however.