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19 August 2008 2:55 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

The Hairy Bakers got off to a strong start for BBC Two last night (Monday) with almost 4 million viewers. The first episode of the new series, which sees culinary duo Dave Myers and Si King exploring British baking traditions, averaged a hefty 3.73m (15.6%) in the 30 minutes from 8.30pm. The audience is a new personal best for the duo, who previously fronted three series of The Hairy Bikers for the channel, and doubles the 1.89m (8.2%) audience for Chinese Food Made Easy in the same slot last week. It also beat BBC One's offering at the same time, an NHS-themed episode of Panorama, with 3.05m (12.7%). BBC Two also enjoyed success last night with Dragons' Den. Now halfway through its sixth series, the business-based show drew an average of 3.56m (14.4%) in the 9pm hour, one of its best ever overnight performances. It helped the channel (more) »

- By Neil Wilkes

1 article from 2008