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'Steptoe' drama sets BBC Four audience high
Published Thursday, Mar 20 2008, 16:57 GMT | By Dave West
BBC
The opening show in the channel's Curse of Comedy season depicted the on-and-off-screen lives of Steptoe and Son actors Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
With a 6.96% share of viewers at 9pm it attracted nearly eight times the 177,000 (0.93%) slot average. The show was also comfortably above BBC Four's previous high-water mark of 1.09m (5.34%) for Fanny Hill in October.
Curse trounced its multichannel rivals, with only Beverly Hills Cop 3 on ITV2 coming closest. It attracted 389,000 (1.99%), just ahead of 319,000 (1.57%) for E4's Reaper.
On BBC Three Freaky Eaters drew 259,000 (1.27%) while 289,000 (1.70%) watched The Wedding Crashers on Film 4. Sky One earned 256,000 (1.25%) for Project Catwalk.
Following Steptoe at 10.05pm, and also attracting a strong following of 813,000 (4.60%), was the first ever Steptoe and Son episode.
Other dramas in the 'Curse' season will cover Hughie Green, Frankie Howerd and Tony Hancock.
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