10-05-2021, 10:49 PM
Brekkie post_id=11854 time=1620683235 user_id=976 Wrote:Me too - that was the very first episode. Checking on Wiki too it ran far longer than I remembered - 8 series on Sunday nights, as well as a 50 episode daytime modern day spin-off. Averaged over 10m for it's first series but dropped 3m viewers for a second series later in the year. Remained consistent though around 7-9m until it's final couple of series when it dropped to an average below 5m.ITV Yorkshire doesn't exist in its current form so they couldn't even if they wanted to.
As tired as Heartbeat and The Royal became in the end I'd much rather see ITV Yorkshire produce another weekly one-hour serial for half the year than a 6th weekly episode of Emmerdale.