4.7m tune in for final In the Club delivery on BBC One
Tuesday night’s prime time entertainment brought one final terrifying labour-related shriek as the brooding ladies of In the Club (BBC One, 9pm) had to wrap up their dramatic and disastrous personal lives as the series came to a close.
After covering lottery winners and prostitution, Kay Mellor’s latest series focused on six women whose paths cross at a maternity group and the ensuing onslaught of drama that makes up their existence.
With a cast of familiar faces – ranging from Spooks to The IT Crowd – the show debuted in early Agust with 3.9 million viewers, with each episode focusing on a single birth and the surrounding maelstrom.
Last night’s grand finale saw midwife Vicky step up to the stirrups, with the final joyful traumatic spawning matching last week’s series high of 4.7 million viewers. This easily helped BBC One and In the Club walk away with the 9pm slot (wait until you see the competition), resulting in a 23% share.
Elsewhere, it really was a truly exciting night for TV viewers, with the other 9pm slot offering a cornucopia of ‘real life’ programming, including one show about a motorway on BBC Two, while ITV decided to go with yet another workplace-based documentary.
BBC Two launched the first episode of The Motorway: Life in the Fast Lane (9pm), a documentary series about the bloody M6.
A surprisingly astounding audience tuned in to hear one half of the Mighty Boosh, Julian Barrett, narrate his way through scenes of people moaning quite a bit as well as the ever-cheery down-to-earth manual workers that these type of shows feed off.
In total, 2.4 million viewers tuned in to hear the exciting tales of road works and traffic noise, resulting in a 12% share. And to think there are four more tantalising episode to go.
Meanwhile on the other side, ITV delivered another quirky doc, most likely based on a drink-fuelled lunchtime pub pitch. Hot Tub Britain (9pm) – not so much an observational doc as a performance doc – looked at the current ‘craze’ sweeping through Britain.
After taking us to the glittering heights of the studios of Gems TV last week, ITV decided on a slight change of pace for its next schedule-filling workplace doc, set in the country’s biggest hot-tub superstore with testimonies from ‘hot tubbers up and down the country’. 1.6 million viewers (an 8% share) tuned in for some reason.
On Channel 4, was the first half of Don’t Stop the Music (9pm) – basically a mash-up of the Educating series and one of Gareth Malone’s many choir operations.
Thankfully the mini maestro wasn’t on hand for this similar series, with pianist James Rhodes stepping in as the inspirational figure, netting just 443,000 viewers and a 2% share.
Earlier Holby City saw BBC One take the 8pm slot too as 4.3 million viewers and a 22% share tuned in for the medical drama.
Over on ITV, the first of three Long Lost Family: What Happened Next? (8pm) milked the show for every penny. And why wouldn’t they? The show has been a constant performer for ITV, although ratings for the catch-up series weren’t as strong, with just 2.6 million viewers and a 13% share tuning in.
At the same time, Posh Pawn (Channel 4, 8pm) wasn’t quite sure if it was a documentary or Dragon’s Den as any given person on the show seemed to have a business to promote. An audience of 1.4 million viewers either didn’t notice or care, resulting in a 7% share.
Earlier in the evening at 7pm on ITV, Emmerdale‘s Declan Macey made more seriously bad life decisions to add to his collection. An audience of 5.3 million viewers watched as his lovely wife Charity continued to pull the wool over his eyes, netting a 31% share.
Bizarrely for the second night in a row EastEnders (BBC One, 7:30pm) took the day’s number one spot, as Sharon and new BFF Linda got hammered and caused a bit of shouty palaver in the Queen Vic – just because it was a Tuesday.
6.1 million viewers watched as booze-riddled Sharon Watts/Mitchell/Rickman/Soon-To-Be-Mitchell-Again let a few drunken secrets slip out, netting a 33% share.
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