Sky 1 drama Delicious adds over a million viewers to episode one

Sky 1’s brand-new original drama Delicious, starring Dawn French and Emilia Fox, has seen viewing of its first episode more than double in the week after launch, resulting in a consolidated audience of 1.641 million. This makes it the seventh consecutive original drama to have launched on Sky 1 with an audience of over 1 million and the channel’s second biggest original drama launch of 2016.

The strong performance of Delicious followed on from Sky 1’s best-performing Christmas Day ever,with the average overnight ratings across the day, from shows including feature-length drama The Last Dragonslayer, up 36% in comparison to 2015.  It also rounds off a fantastic year for the channel which saw original drama Stan Lee’s Lucky Man secure its place as Sky 1’s best-performing UK drama series ever, with an average cumulative audience of 1.77 million.

Adam MacDonald, Director of Sky 1, said:“It’s great to see customers are loving Delicious as much as we do and taking advantage of all the flexible ways to watch it. With a stand-out cast and a brilliant script we knew it was a recipe for success as soon as we read it. And the good news is there are still two more episodes to go!”

Launching with an overnight audience of 677,000 , viewing has increased by 142% over seven days as Sky customers take advantage of being able to watch the show flexibly,whether that’s through Sky+ recordings, on demand or via Sky Go. Delicious is also one of top ten most watched shows of the week on online streaming service NOW TV.

Episode two of the four-part drama, which aired on Friday, is proving just as popular with audiences as the launch. Having secured an overnight figure of 562,000, viewing has already grown to over 1 million with further playback due to raise this even higher over the next four days.

Written by Dan Sefton (Mr Selfridge, Secret Diary of a Call Girl), directed by Clare Kilner (The Wedding Date) and made by Bandit Television for Sky 1, Delicious is part of Sky’s commitment to offer customers brand-new original drama all year round.

Customers can watch Delicious now on Sky 1, on demand and Sky Go, as well as through online streaming service NOW TV with a NOW TV Entertainment Month Pass. 

For further information please contact: 
Sky
Katharine Ware
E: Katharine.Ware@sky.uk
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About Delicious 
Dawn French, Emilia Fox, Iain Glen and Sheila Hancock star in the bold new four-part drama currently on Sky 1. Written by Dan Sefton and directed by Clare Kilner and John Hardwick, Delicious is part of Sky’s commitment to offer customers brand-new original drama all year round.

Passionate cook Gina (Dawn French) was once married to Leo Vincent (Iain Glen), a successful entrepreneur,chef and hotel owner in Cornwall. Leo owes much of his success to Gina’s exceptional cooking, but since leaving her for the glamorous Sam (Emilia Fox),his business has continued to thrive. When Sam has suspicions that Leo is having an affair she confides in Gina, confident that she’ll recognise the signs. Only to later discover that it’s Gina herself who is the ‘other woman’.The secrets and scandals that spill out are proof that sleeping with another woman’s husband is never a good idea – even if he was your husband first. As Sam and Gina try to fix their broken families, will a friendship rise from the ashes of betrayal or will they tear each other apart?

Delicious is an honest and compelling story of love, sex, lies and betrayal, where things are never as they seem.