ITV Drama Sees Off Football Competition

ITV’s double bill of drama saw off competition from BBC One’s Match Of The Day last night, with the FA Cup quarter final replay between Middlesbrough and Charlton Athletic drawing just under 4.3 million.

Meanwhile, ITV’s The Bill and Murder City attracted average adult audiences of 5.8 million and 4.7 million respectively.

BBC Two’s The Apprentice performed admirably, however, with an average audience of just under 4 million for the business-based reality show.

Channel 4’s largest audience of the evening came with Grand Designs, notching up an average of 3.4 million, while Five aired The Most Outrageous TV Moments Ever to an audience of 970,000.

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.

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