After us waxing lyrical about Heroes for ages here at TV Scoop, Wednesday night saw the much-hyped new US show’s debut on terrestrial TV and the viewing figures are pretty impressive. According to DS, 4.3 million watched the first episode, with a solid 4 million ignoring the remote control and sticking around for the second instalment. Only ITV1 beat BBC2 in the 9pm slot on Wednesday with Wire in the Blood.

On a slightly more obscure channel, that of More4, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip also fared well last night reports Broadcast Now. The new Aaron Sorkin drama pulled in 318,000 viewers, 2% of multichannel homes. This made it the 10th most watched show on the station this year, way ahead of the channel’s slot average of 171,000.

In a sad indictment of the programming on this multichannel, More 4’s most watched shows this year have been repeats of Channel 4 products. These include Grand Designs: Trade Secrets and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Come on bosses – we like it when you give us original, provocative content. More4 indeed!