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See broadcasts for BBC OneKnock Knock (4/12 Series 10)

Last updated 28 June 2017
Broadcast: Saturday 6th May 2017
7:20pm-8:10pm BST (18:20 GMT) < > « » Premiere < > « »
(actually broadcast at 19:21:25)
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Featuring: Peter Capaldi, Matt Lucas, Pearl Mackie, David Suchet

When a sinister landord (David Suchet) shows Bill and her friends the perfect house-share, they have no idea what lies ahead.


Synopsis Source: Radio Times
Broadcast Source: BBC
Final chart position for Knock Knock

Ratings Information:


Initial figures: 4.320m viewers (overnight), 24.9% audience share
Consolidated figures: 5.729m viewers (+7 days), 27.3% audience share, 21st place - BARB Week Top 30 Chart, AI 83
Additional figures: 6.202m viewers (+28 days)

Overnight Viewing Figures: Live 3.28m, VOSDAL 4.32m (+1.04m):

 

BARB TV Player reports: 138607/14th (w/e 7 May 2017), 102145/20 (w/e 14 May 2017)


Notes


Knock Knock (Credit: BBC/BBC Worldwide (Jon Hall))DRAMA Knock Knock marks the Who debut of Mike Bartlett, the award-winning playwright who brought Doctor Foster to BBC1 in 2015 - and he's delivered one of the eeriest episodes in a long while.

Bill and five student buddies are looking for digs. After a series of amusingly hopeless viewings, they're shown round a rambling old pile with an irresisistably low rent. What's the catch? The Landlord (a pallid David Suchet creeping about with a tuning fork) certainly isn't letting on.

Freak draughts, 1930s sockets and no mobile signal are the least of their problems. Creaking woodwork and floorboards and a fright that lurks in the "unsafe" tower are what they ought to be scared of. As night closes in and Bill's friends vanish one by one, can her cool/embarassing "grandfather" come to her aid?

I adore an Old Dark House chiller and this is up there with the finest. It doesn't offer much in the way of black humour, but there are plenty of flesh-crawling thrills. Prepare to develop xylophobia - and irrational fear of wood.

Credit: Radio Times (p52)