BBC drama The Tourist returned for its second season final evening within the profitable New Year’s Day 9 p.m. GMT (1 p.m. PT) slot to simply 2.2M viewers, overwhelmed comfortably by ITV‘s publish workplace drama.
The episode, which peaked with 2.5M, attracted lower than half of the viewers of the primary season’s opener from precisely the identical slot two years in the past, in accordance with Barb scores information equipped by overnights.television. It will possible consolidate a lot larger as viewers watch on iPlayer over the approaching weeks, the place all eps can be found.
The Jamie Dornan-starrer, which has moved from Australia to Ireland this season and follows a sufferer of a automotive crash who wakes up in hospital with amnesia, will launch on Netflix within the U.S. in a number of weeks and can also be co-produced for Australia’s Stan and Germany’s ZDF. Season 1 was co-produced for the Max streamer (then HBO Max). Produced by Fleabag maker Two Brothers Pictures, final evening’s ep noticed Dornan’s Elliot kidnapped as he headed to Ireland accompanied by Helen (Danielle Macdonald) to seek out solutions about his previous.
The Tourist got here third within the most-watched reveals on the BBC yesterday. It was comfortably overwhelmed by the opener of ITV’s heart-wrenching Mr Bates vs. the Post Office, the Toby Jones-starrer that tells the story of what’s deemed the best miscarriage of justice in British authorized historical past. Both proceed on their respective channels tonight.
Over the Christmas interval, the BBC aired an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy starring Industry’s David Jonsson to three.7M then 2.8M viewers. Meanwhile, characteristic drama Men Up, produced by Russell T Davies and telling the story of the invention of viagra, amassed an viewers of 1.5M on December 29.
The BBC’s large present launch this week past The Tourist is the second season of breakout competitors hit The Traitors, which kicks off tomorrow at 9 p.m.
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