Pigs, The Queen and Cars

The Herald, in Scotland, has once again been given privileged information about BBC Alba's audience figures, officially shared only annually with competitors and licence-fee payers.

The station told the Herald it averages around 500,000 viewers a week, with higher numbers when popular football matches are broadcast, such as the Brechin v Rangers game last July. Last year, the channel scored 3.4 million viewings on BBC iPlayer, up from two million the year before - here top shows included, yes, football, but also Peppa Pig in Gaelic, the Queen's Jubilee message and BBC Alba's car show Air An Rathad.

Now apparently, the channel wants to invest some of its £14m annual budget in drama co-productions, arguing that, based on the success of The Killing and Borgen, there's an audience for subtitled tv thrillers.

• And, as if by magic, BBC4 has announced the purchase of two new thrillers - from Sweden and Italy. Arne Dahl, based on novels by Jan Arnald, and Inspector Da Luca, from stories by Carlo Lucarelli, set in the time of Mussolini.