Sorry to be negative but this is factually inaccurate. The First episode of Class reached over a million viewers in its consolidated overnight figures on BBC One. With the first episode of each double bill reaching around 0.75 million on average. In its first 7 days Class Episode 1 reached 331,000 views on iPlayer so perhaps you’ve got your figures mixed up? Class persistently remained in the top 50 for iPlayer throughout its run. Perhaps you are referring to the on demand catch up charts where for some reason Class didn’t appear. Perhaps because it wasn’t ‘catch up’. Class did under-perform in the UK, it was badly marketed and badly scheduled with the series undoubtably having faults but articles like this damage the show even further by presenting inaccuracies as fact. Class consistently performed above average for its timeslot in America with the series opening ranking in BBC America’s top 5 series launches ever with ages 25-54. It also did very well in Canada and Australia as well as receiving a generally positive critical reception. It’s also just been sold to China. So yes despite a poor UK showing, much of which was outside of its control, Class just isn’t the failure articles like this suggest. With the UK having the weakest audience figures though, the future of the show is very much up in the air, despite success overseas.

Of course a hack like him would blame scheduling. Can’t be because he couldn’t write his way out of a paper bag, nope, gotta be the scheduling.