Overnights: ‘Race 2’ premiere trounces rivals

The free-to-air premiere of this year’s blockbuster ‘Race 2’ on UMP Movies surprisingly pipped rival channels in the competition last night, according to exclusive data obtained by BizAsia.

‘Race 2’, which wasn’t promoted much still managed to pull in 66,700 viewers – peaking at 81,600 viewers. The repeat telecast straight after at 23:47 pulled in a further 17,600 viewers.

Rishtey, was the second most watched channel yesterday with ‘Comedy Nights With Kapil’ raked in 27,100 viewers at 17:30, while the ‘Jashn-E-Eid’ show at 18:30 getting 55,900 viewers and Pakistani drama ‘Maat’ mustering in 21,500 viewers. ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ (re-run) did well too with 38,000 viewers.

On Star Plus, ‘Arjun’ was the most watched show on the channel with 49,100 viewers and the repeat telecast of ‘Dabangg 2’ got 34,700 viewers at 21:00.

On Zing, ‘Grinds My Teeth’ was top with 28,000 viewers, followed by ‘Trendsetters’ with 27,500 viewers and ‘Bollywood Business’ getting 3,400 viewers.

Above data is an overnight rating ��� and may change slightly after consolidated figures become available in seven days from BARB.