Stick That Up Your Emmerdale

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redrockSome of the cast of TV3’s Red Rock

 

Would the public take to a soap based around a busy Dublin Garda station in a fictional coastal town starring hot people?

In their droves apparently.

[Irish-made TV3 soap] Red Rock burst onto our screens on Wednesday evening with an average audience of 323,200 viewers.
The first instalment of the garda drama reached a peak figure of 371,100.
The soap pipped long running UK offering Emmerdale to the post – the show pulled in an average of 325,000 viewers.

Fair City play though, in fairness.

Red Rock: New soap reaches 410,800 viewers on debut (IrishMirror)

Previously: Get Your Red Rock On

(TV3)

Meanwhile, via RTÉ:

Fair City was the most watched soap in Ireland last night with an average audience of 569,000 (36%) Irish soap fans tuning in to watch last night’s episode. Fair City had a reach** audience of 735,700 while an additional 31,400 TV viewers watched the episode on RTÉ One+1. 10,057 caught up on the Carrigstown action on RTÉ Player. Fair City was also the second most watched programme among 15 – 34s (24%) after Operation Transformation.

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14 thoughts on “Stick That Up Your Emmerdale

  1. Rep

    The most shocking thing about that is that roughly 325,000 people in Ireland watch frickin Emmerdale.

  2. lolly

    we don’t watch any soaps in this house, not even Downton Abbey, but we watched this last night and enjoyed it – the over-40s and the under 15s. streets ahead of Fair City. good luck to them. the 14 year old (boy) said: “that was good, I thought soap operas were supposed to be about wobbly sets and bad acting…”

  3. Parky Mark

    Over half a million people watch Fair City? That’s what’s wrong with the country. Fix that before you even start with the hospital beds crisis.

      1. Drebbin

        I can only assume half a million of us lost the remote in 1990 and we’re too embarrassed to admit it.

  4. Je Suis Charlie Kelly

    That is great news. Only one episode and already it’s the FIFTH most popular soap in the country!

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