Some 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.
I was all set to watch this when I thought it was a love/hate type mini series.
So it had 2,000 less viewers than Emmerdale Farm. A triumph.
The most shocking thing about that is that roughly 325,000 people in Ireland watch frickin Emmerdale.
371,100 Irish people can’t be wrong.
I know what I’ll be doing next time it’s on
Bursht.
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…”
‘freedom is just a stae of mind, delores’
The Liam?
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.
And people who missed it make an effort to catch up on RTE Player!
Jaysus wept.
I can only assume half a million of us lost the remote in 1990 and we’re too embarrassed to admit it.
That is great news. Only one episode and already it’s the FIFTH most popular soap in the country!
That promo pic gives me potatoshop nightmares.
Are they that Picasso-faced in real life?