Jade Goody's Wedding watched by one million

Jade Goody's Wedding watched by one million
Jade Goody's Wedding watched by one million

Coverage of Jade Goody's wedding pulled in a record audience for Living TV on Thursday night. Two-hour special, Jade's Wedding, was watched by more than a million viewers, making it the channel's most-watched programme ever, according to reports on broadcastnow.com. The programme averaged 769,000 viewers from 8pm on Living - but gained a strong audience on Living +1 an hour later, when 367,000 tuned in, pushing figures over the one million mark. The show was up by an incredible 406 per cent on Living's audience average of 152,000 viewers for the same slot last year. Living's coverage of the Big Brother star's cancer battle has been a huge ratings winner for the channel. Wednesday's wedding precursor, Jade: Bride to Be, had achieved the channel's previously highest ever audience, with viewers totalling 985,000 in the hour from 9pm. Jade's Wedding did have some competition from ITV4's live Uefa Cup Football coverage of Manchester City versus AB Aalborg, which pulled in 1.3 million viewers between 8pm and 10pm. Get exclusive access to your favourite stars. Subscribe to TV Times magazine

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.