Heartbeat is a long running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. It is made by ITV Studios (formerly Yorkshire Television) at The Leeds Studios, and on location, for broadcast on ITV. Heartbeat first aired on Friday 10 April 1992 (it was later shifted to Sunday evenings). By autumn 2008, it had reached its 18th series, clocking up over 370 episodes.
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Heartbeat is a long running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. It is made by ITV Studios (formerly Yorkshire Television) at The Leeds Studios, and on location, for broadcast on ITV. Heartbeat first aired on Friday 10 April 1992 (it was later shifted to Sunday evenings). By autumn 2008, it had reached its 18th series, clocking up over 370 episodes.
Heartbeat has proved popular since the beginning when early series consistently drew over 10 million viewers. In its first year Heartbeat averaged 14.5 million viewers and was regularly in the top five TV programmes across all British channels. It has even scored higher figures than soap opera Coronation Street (one of Britain's best known and most popular TV shows). In 2001 Heartbeat came sixth in the UK TV ratings list with a peak audience of 13.82 million and was sixth again in 2003 with 12.8 million viewers. In autumn 2008 typical viewing figures were around 6 million per episode.
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