BBC One's 'Howards End' Kicks Off With Nearly 7M Viewers

Howards End kicked off on BBC One on Sunday night, becoming one of the channel's highest rated drama launches this year. The period drama, which stars Agent Carter's Hayley Atwell as Margaret Schlegel, opened with 6.8M overnight viewers in a 9pm slot on the UK public broadcaster. The show will likely air on U.S premium cable network Starz in early 2018. This is well ahead of the channel's average for the slot, which is around 5M. To put it into context, the E.M Forster…