In the Club continues a solid run on BBC One
Tuesday night brought the latest helping of unbridled emotions and painful contractions in the fourth part of pregnant lady drama, In the Club (BBC One, 9pm). However, this being a Kay Mellor joint, our heroines were in a constant state of upheaval, with giving birth being the least of their worries as real life continuously attempted to crush them at every available opportunity.
Last night’s epidural-sponsored fun focused on Kim – The IT Crowd‘s Katherine Parkinson – who, just as she neared the end of her pregnancy, broke up with her partner Susie and fittingly shacked up with her sperm donor – just to make things extra complicated.
After kicking off with 3.9 million viewers four weeks back, In the Club then rose to 4.4 million and had managed to cling on to that audience ever since. The latest slice of strong, multitasking women netted the biggest 9pm audience and a 21% share for BBC One.
At the same time Channel 4 returned to the remote communities of northern Indonesia as some young and plucky British aviators had to brave volcanos and precariously small mountaintop runways for the second episode of Worst Place to be a Pilot (9pm).
The documentary series looks at the lengths some young pilots go to in order to gain that valuable experience, risking life and limb in order to nail that dream job with Ryanair somewhere down the line.
1.2 million viewers – down from last week’s 1.4 million – tuned in for the latest set of stomach churning landings, with the best-workplace-doc-on-TV-at-the-moment netting a 5% share.
Over on BBC Two, Physicist Dr Helen Czerski and biologist Patrick Aryee continued to take a peek at Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals at 9pm. The second episode of the educational extravaganza saw the preppy duo take a look at how animals use sounds, resulting in an audience of 1.4 million and a 6% share.
Earlier at 8pm, Holby City helped BBC One capture another time slot, with 4.1 million viewers and a 21% share tuning in to see the dedicated staff selflessly and bravely attend a gala charity ball.
There was more of the learning stuff on BBC Two as the second part of intriguing history lesson Russia’s Lost Princesses (8pm) continued to look at the fate of Tsar Nicholas II’s four daughters, securing 1.5 million viewers and an 8% share.
On Channel 4, presenter Mark Evans brought the second episode of Dogs: Their Secret Lives (not to be confused with ITV’s The Secret Life of Dogs, itself a poor imitation of BBC Two’s Horizon: The Secret Life of the Cat) which looked at demonic misunderstood hounds from hell.
An impressive audience of 1.6 million viewers watched as timid dog owners were asked to stand up to their yappy pets, while others realised they might have bitten off more than they could chew (a woman owned two energetic Great Danes, one of them was mental), resulting in a 8% share.
While all this was going on, ITV was happy to consign two hours of its prime time schedule to a repeat of old dependable Midsomer Murders (8pm) with episode from 2011 bringing in an audience of 2.5 million viewers and a 12% share.
Only two weeks after Sky One quickly put together a night of Robin Williams’ films right after the actor’s death, last night saw the channel pay tribute to Lord Richard Attenborough by airing the 1993 film Jurassic Park (9pm), which secured an audience of 272,000 viewers.
Earlier in the day, EastEnders brought in the day’s biggest audience as Ian Beale made a cinematic dash across the exterior market set, just to make use of the BBC’s investment, if nothing else.
5.8 million viewers watched as Ian’s fiancée, Denise, found out his dark little secret (a crack addict named Rainie), resulting in a 31% share.
A little earlier, Emmerdale (ITV, 7pm) brought in 5.2 million viewers and a 30% share with its charming tale of everyday rural crime folk.
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