MOST GROSS DANGER. Copies of Red Dwarf: Titan are starting to make their way to people ahead of the official release on Thursday 16th July. You can post your spoiler-free thoughts and opinions in this thread, but please keep all other comments and forum posts free of any details about the book, until further dedicated spoilery threads are published on Thursday.

Back To Earth: A Ratings Success

News

Posted by Ian Symes on 14th April 2009, 10:28

Following on from the previous news that BTE Part 1 hit a whopping 2.06 million on the overnights, and that Part 2 got 937,000, the results are finally in for Part 3. And we're going to...

TWO MILLION

News

Posted by Seb Patrick on 11th April 2009, 11:23

TWO. FUCKING. MILLION. VIEWERS.

And a further 300,000 for the 10pm timeshift. And 1m for the Gunmen repeat!

So there we have it. Red Dwarf : Back to Earth is an absolutely HUGE FUCKING SUCCESS. As far as I can see, it's second only to Torchwood as the highest ever rated UK-originated non-sports multichannel broadcast.* That's a lot of conditions, but it's still far more impressive than any of us could ever have anticipated.

*EDIT : "Fourth-highest", according to Mike Warren's research. Still, though. Bear in mind this is comparing overnights to final figures...