“Saturday Night Live U.K.” ratings have dipped two episodes in.
The second episode of the live comedy show, which opened with a sketch about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) and the Epstein scandal, drew 205,000 viewers, down from 226,000 for the inaugural episode.
“Fifty Shades” star Jamie Dornan took over hosting duties from Tina Fey, accompanied by musical act Wolf Alice.
The show airs in the U.K. at 10 p.m. on Comcast-owned pay TV channel Sky One.
The audience share also dropped slightly, from 3.2% in week one to 3.17%, according to official BARB figures supplied by overnights.tv.
On YouTube however the Prince Andrew sketch had attracted 829,000 views in 14 hours followed by a hostage sketch featuring Jamie Dornan and “SNL U.K.” cast member Annabel Marlow discussing her character’s relationship status, which garnered almost 206,000 in 13 hours.
In the 10pm time slot on the main free-to-air channels, the news on BBC One got the lion’s share of audience figures with an average of 1.6 million (20.95% share), followed by “The Jonathan Ross Show” on ITV1 with 1.1 million (16.59% share) and 2022 Halle Berry sci-fi disaster film “Moonfall” on Channel 4, which attracted almost half of “SNL U.K.’s audience figures with only 126,000 viewers (2.96% share).
The number one show on Saturday was competition format “Gladiators,” which saw an average of 3.3 million viewers and an audience share of 32.69%. However, it was broadcast much earlier in the evening (at 5.45pm) on free-to-air network BBC One. It was followed by “Britain’s Got Talent” on ITV 1 (3.2 million viewers with a 29.66% audience share) and “Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel” in the number 3 spot, also on BBC One (with an average audience of 2.7 million and an audience share of 25.09%).
“SNL U.K.,” which is exec produced by “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels, launched last weekend in the U.K. with a star-studded episode featuring Michael Cera, Graham Norton, Regé-Jean Page and Nicola Coughlan.
Next week’s third episode on April 4 will be hosted by Riz Ahmed with musical guest Kasabian.
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