Boy Meets Girl

The final episode of Pushing Daisies was seen by just 860k (6.5%) on ITV1 on Friday, early figures suggest. The series, which starred British actress Anna Friel as the female lead, was axed by ABC after two seasons last year. The final three episodes premiered on ITV1 and are still to air in the Us. The series had begun strongly for ITV1 last year, with 5.95m (25.7%) tuning in for the premiere in a Saturday night slot. When the show returned for its second season at the end of January, the audience dropped to 1.74m (9.4%) and slowly declined thereafter. Earlier, ITV1's new comedy drama series Boy Meets Girl, starring Martin Freeman and Paterson Joseph, made an unspectacular start with 3.43m (15.7%) in the 9pm hour. On BBC One, Have I Got News For You had 5.03m (22.7%) in the first half of the hour, then the second episode of Martin Clunes
By Neil Wilkes

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The second episode of ITV drama Boy Meets Girl lost a million viewers on Friday, according to early figures. The four-part series, which stars Martin Freeman and Paterson Joseph, opened with an unspectacular 3.43m (15.7%) on May 1 but was down to 2.44m (11%) on Friday. It was almost beaten in its slot by NCIS, which took 2.33m (10.5%) for Five. A double-bill of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA had a decent 2.16m (10.2%) for Channel 4, with a further 185k (1.3%) on timeshift, while BBC Two's English Heritage put in 1.74m (7.9%). A Jack Dee-fronted Have I Got News For You brought in 5.19m (23.2%) to BBC One in the first half of the hour, then the third
By Neil Wilkes

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