Despite having aired last night between 9-11:00pm, The Inbetweeners Movie was still trending on Twitter until after 11:00am today. While they might be a nerdy bunch who collectively resemble "the world's s***est boyband", one thing Will, Simon, Jay and Neil certainly aren't is unpopular.

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Yes, despite the DVD having already sold well over a million copies in this country, The Inbetweeners Movie was Channel 4's most-watched broadcast yesterday by quite some margin, attracting a huge average of 2.7m viewers and earning a 13.7% audience share.

The film’s ratings peaked at just over 3m viewers between 9:45-10:00pm, and C4’s audience never fell below 2.5m people while the movie was on air.

As well as picking up another 541,000 viewers on C4+1, the Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison-fronted comedy proved more popular than almost anything else on terrestrial in the same time-slot.

It bested BBC1’s Haunted (2.5m/11%), BBC2’s Great Continental Rally (2.4m/10%) , Hatfields & McCoys on Channel 5 (875k/3.8%), and only ITV’s DCI Banks attracted a larger audience, pulling in 3.4m punters (14.8%) who presumably don’t find freaky dancing or knob gags especially funny.

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Happily for excited Inbetweeners fans, it was revealed yesterday that the film’s writers Iain Morris and Damon Beesley are getting close to finishing the first draft of a script for a sequel. Based on last night’s ratings performance, I’ll bet C4’s already making room for it in its schedules...

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