Charlie Brooker's Dead Set pulls in 1.2m on E4

LONDON - Charlie Brooker's horror thriller 'Dead Set' about a nation of zombies attacking the Big Brother house pulled in 1.2m on E4, while a new series of 'Spooks' kicked off on BBC One with 5.5m, according to unofficial overnight figures.

'Dead Set', starring Jaime Winstone and 'Big Brother' host Davina McCall as herself, was one of E4's highest rating programmes of the year with 1.2m viewers and a 7.2% share of the 10pm to 11.15pm audience. Including E4+1 figures it reached 1.4m.

The five-part series is set in the real 'Big Brother' house with cameos from former contestants including Brian Belo, Helen Adams and Ziggy Lichman.

The first episode of the seventh series of BBC One's spy drama 'Spooks' won the prime time slot with 5.5m viewers and a 23.3% share of the 9pm-10pm audience.

The opening two-part story, which concludes tonight, saw the team unearth a terrorist plot to wreak havoc on Remembrance Day and introduced a new spook, played by Richard Armitage, who was released in a spy swap after eight years in a Russian prison.

The last series of 'Spooks' averaged 5.2m viewers and launched with 6.3m.

On ITV1 in the same slot, the final part of bank fraud thriller 'Wired', starring Jodie Whittaker and Lawrence Fox, attracted 3.1m viewers and a 13.1% share of the audience.

'Embarassing Teenage Bodies' performed well for Channel 4 drawing in 2.9m viewers and a 12% share of the 9pm-10pm audience. Including Channel 4+1 figures it reached 3.2m.

It beat BBC Two's documentary 'Prescott: The Class System and Me', following former deputy prime minister John Prescott, which pulled in 2.6m viewers and a 10.9% share of the 9pm to 10pm audience.

Five's adventure series 'Unbreakable' with explorer Benedict Allen drew 800,000 viewers and a 3.3% share between 9pm and 10pm.

 

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