Sunday 7 October 2012

Coronation Street has highest rated show in 1 year

Coronation Street had it's highest rated show in 13 months on Friday night, as over 9 Million Viewers tuned in, to find out whether Maria had cancer.

The show pulled in 8.45m at 7.30pm, and a respectable 229k on ITV1+1 at 8.30pm, as Maria got ready for the results of her lump.

Over 4,500 tweets were posted to Twitter in the hashtag '#corrie' and @samiaghadie's followers increased by 10,000 in half an hour, also @itvcorrie gained a wonderful 3,220 in the whole half an hour.

The 2nd instalment had an amazing 9.02m viewers as Maria kissed Marcus, and a whopping 510k on ITV1 +1 at 9.30pm, over 850 tweets were posted in the time slot, and another 2,400 followed @samiaghadie, and 350 to @itvcorrie.

We also saw Maria, Marcus, Sean, Samia Ghadie, and #corrie trending worldwide, and 'Happy Birthday Eileen' went to top UK Trend at 7.46pm. 

Corrie had its highest audience in 13 months, since 12.5m tuned in to see Becky's exit, and 15.23m to say a farewell to Betty.


These ratings have been supplied by BARB and ITV Officials.

(ITV2's Omnibus has 1.23m)


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