The return of Red Dwarf recorded the highest ever ratings for multichannel service Dave over the Easter weekend with more than 2 million viewers on Good Friday, 10 April.
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Red Dwarf: Back to Earth attracted the biggest audience ever for a non-terrestrial commission with a rating of 2.66m on Good Friday.
Dave's audience beat both BBC2 and channel 5 in the equivalent time slots with their dimension-jumping saga featurig the Boys from the Dwarf making it home.
Further ratings analysis showed the first episode pulled in an average multichannel audience share of 10 per cent between 9pm and 9.30pm.
A further 342,000 watched on the timeshift channel Dave ja vu an hour later.
By this morning, the audience figure for Friday's Red Dwarf special had risen by a further 226,000 thanks to timeshift viewers – people who recorded the show and watched it later.
On Sunday, the final installment drew 1 million and a 4.6 per cent multichannel share between 9pm and 9.30pm, with a further 244,000 on the timeshift channel.
Red Dwarf: Back to Earth is Dave's biggest commission yet and its first foray into scripted comedy. The ratings success has raised fan's hopes that they will now commission a full series.
Click Liverpool can also boast having a hand in a record-breaking TV feat... on Saturday, we hosted the Welcome Home Dave party at the Aigburth Arms, which saw more than 80 Red Dwarf fans huddle round the pubs TV screens to watch it being broadcast.
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