SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/15/tvratings.television1

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Skins: E4’s drama about a group of sixth form college students in Bristol

Teen drama Skins finished its second run with almost 750,000 viewers on E4 last night, Monday April 14.

The season finale, which featured a mass clearout of the Skins cast, had 741,000 viewers, a 5% multichannel share of the audience in the 10pm hour, according to unofficial overnights.

Skins was watched by another 204,000 when it was shown again an hour later on E4+1.

E4’s drama, about a group of sixth form college students in Bristol, returned in February with 884,000 viewers for the first episode of its second run.

The first half of the final episode lost out to BBC3’s EastEnders repeat, which averaged 877,000 viewers, but beat the same channel’s Gavin and Stacey, which followed the soap at 10.30pm and had 389,000 viewers.

At the same time on Sky One, Night Cops arrested 261,000 viewers while More4’s Grand Designs attracted 263,000.

Earlier, BBC4’s Stephen Fry and the Machine That Made Us, a documentary about the invention of the printing press, had 596,000 viewers, a 3% multichannel share in the 9pm hour.

At the same time on BBC3, Young Mums’ Mansion averaged 521,000 viewers while another showing for ITV1’s new US drama Pushing Daisies on ITV2 had an audience of 393,000.