Saturday Night Live landed in the UK with nearly 230,000 viewers.
Sky’s remake of NBC’s 50-year-old comedy series has had a mixed set of reviews, which skew positive on the whole, and has already produced a couple of breakout moments — not least Jack Shep’s memorable Princess Diana at David Attenborough’s spoof last supper.
Saturday Night Live UK was watched by 226,000 viewers in its 10PM slot on Sky One. That gave it a 3.2% share of the available TV audience at the time, according to official BARB figures supplied by overnights.tv.
The 226,000 viewers means it beat Channel 4 in the same slot — a rarity for any Sky show. Channel 4 broadcast Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation to 215,000 people. The best performing show at 10PM was the BBC News on BBC One, which was watched by nearly 2M viewers.
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