Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport

Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport is a British documentary series, aired by ITV from 3 October 2015. Five series have been produced, the latest Series 5, which started on 21 May 2019. The series was renewed for a sixth series to air in 2020. Series 6 began airing on 19th August 2020. Filming for the sixth series was suspended in March 2020 due to COVID-19. Heathrow website confirmed that ITV had filmed over 500 hours film and that there will be a full series of 12 episodes, the same as the previous series.[1]

Heathrow: Britains's Busiest Airport
GenreDocumentary
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series6 (as of2020)
No. of episodes39 (as of 4 November 2020)
Production
Production locationHeathrow Airport
Production companyITV Studios Entertainment
DistributorITV Studios Global
Release
Original networkITV
Original release3 October 2015 (2015-10-03) –
present

Format

The series follows the events happening day after day at Heathrow Airport in London.

Episodes

Series overview
SeriesEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
133 October 201517 October 2015ITV
2330 May 201613 June 2016
3310 May 201724 May 2017
462 May 201813 June 2018
51221 May 201916 October 2019
61219 August 20204 November 2020
7TBA2021TBA

Series 1 (2015)
Episode
no.		 Airdate Viewers
(millions)		 ITV
weekly rating		 Narrator
1 ("Arrivals") 3 October 2015 TBA TBC Paul Thornley
2 ("Turnaround") 10 October 2015 TBC
3 ("Departures") 17 October 2015 TBC
SA 2015 N/A N/A

Series 2 (2016)

Official episode viewing figures are from BARB.[2]

Episode
no.		 Airdate Viewers
(millions)		 ITV
weekly rating		 Narrator
1 30 May 2016 3.33 13 Paul Thornley
2 6 June 2016 3.34 14
3 13 June 2016 2.89 15
SA 2016 3.18 N/A

Series 3 (2017)

Official episode viewing figures are from BARB.[3]

Episode
no.		 Airdate Viewers
(millions)		 ITV
weekly rating		 Narrator
1 10 May 2017 4.48 16 Paul Thornley
2 17 May 2017 3.46 17
3 24 May 2017 3.25 17
SA 2017 3.73 N/A

Series 4 (2018)


From series 4, episodes were cut down from 45 to 30 minutes.

Episode
no.		 Airdate Viewers
(millions)		 ITV
weekly rating		 Narrator
1 2 May 2018 3.6 18 Patricia Hodge
2 9 May 2018 3.4 21
3 16 May 2018 4.1 23
4 23 May 2018 4.4
5 6 June 2018 4.5 126
6 13 June 2018 4.3
SA 2018 4.0 N/A

Series 5 (2019)
Episode
no.		 Airdate Viewers

(millions)

 ITV

weekly rating

 Narrator
1 21 May 2019[4] NA NA Dame Julie Walters
2 22 May 2019[5] NA NA
3 5 June 2019[6][7] NA NA
4 12 June 2019[8] 4.02 14
5 19 June 2019 4.07 15
6 26 June 2019 3.90 13
7 11 September 2019 NA NA
8 18 September 2019 NA NA
9 25 September 2019 TBA TBA
10 2 October 2019 TBA TBA
11 9 October 2019 TBA TBA
12 16 October 2019 TBA TBA
SA 2019 TBA TBA

Series 6 (2020)

Series 6 was filmed before COVID-19 restrictions.

Episode
no.		 Airdate Viewers

(millions)

 ITV

weekly rating

 Narrator
1 19 August 2020[9] TBA TBA Joanna Lumley
2 26 August 2020[10] TBA TBA
3 2nd September 2020 TBA TBA
4 9th September 2020 TBA TBA
5 16th September 2020 TBA TBA
6 23rd September 2020 TBA TBA
7 30th September 2020 TBA TBA
8 7th October 2020 TBA TBA
9 14th October 2020 TBA TBA
10 21st October 2020 TBA TBA
11 28th October 2020 TBA TBA
12 4th November 2020 TBA TBA
SA 2020 TBA TBA

References
  1. https://www.heathrow.com/heathrow-blog/britains-busiest-airport-2020
  2. "Weekly Top 30 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  3. "Weekly Top 30 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  4. Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport - Series 5 - Episode 1, retrieved 2019-05-25
  5. Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport - Series 5 - Episode 2, retrieved 2019-05-25
  6. "Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport | TV documentary | Heathrow Traveller". Heathrow Traveller blog. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  7. "Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport - S5 - Episode 3". Radio Times. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  8. Abraham Cheung (2019-06-06), Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport S05E03 (Season 5, Episode 3, June 2019), retrieved 2019-06-07
  9. Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport - Series 6 - Episode 1, retrieved 2020-08-28
  10. Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport - Series 6 - Episode 2, retrieved 2020-08-28
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