Wartime Friends Trapped in Loveless Relationships
by Owen G | The Guardian | October 22, 2002
ITV’s heavily promoted one-off wartime drama, Dead Gorgeous, starring Fay Ripley, left viewers cold last night with 1.5 million switching off during the course of the programme.
The two-hour epic, in which Ripley co-starred with Helen McCrory as a pair of wartime friends trapped in loveless relationships, started off with 6.6 million viewers at 9pm.
But by 10.15pm, the number watching had dipped to 4.8 million, leaving the drama with an average of 5.5 million viewers, one in four of all those watching.
Read the rest of the original article at The Guardian