6.5m Tune In To The Apprentice

Last night’s instalment of The Apprentice picked up a peak of 6.5 million adults in its 9pm slot, a 28.2% share of the audience.

The BBC1 show, which saw Sir Alan fire Shazia Wahab after the girls’ team made a mess of their laundry task, managed an average of six million adult viewers for its hour long running time.

Over on ITV1 at 9pm was Rock Rivals, which had a peak of 2.4 million adults (a 10.3% share) and an average of 1.8 million adults.

Channel 4 aired its usual Wednesday night mix of aspirational programming, with Relocation, Relocation, Relocation at 8pm followed by the awesome Grand Designs.

A peak of 2.8 million adults tuned in to Relocation, Relocation, Relocation, while there was a peak of 3.2 million adults for Grand Designs.

Meanwhile, on BBC Two at 9pm was the ever effervescent Dan Cruickshank having some Adventures in Architecture.

A peak of 1.7 million adults watched Cruickshank wander about in the Arctic Circle, building an igloo.

Overnight data is available each morning in mediatel.co.uk’s TV Database, with all BARB registered subscribers able to view reports for terrestrial networks, ITV2 and Sky One.

BBC: 020 8743 8000 www.bbc.co.uk ITV: 020 7843 8000 www.itv.com Channel Four: 020 7396 4444 www.channel4.com