Overnights: Penultimate Ashes to Ashes hits a high of 6m

The penultimate episode of BBC One’s Ashes to Ashes series pulled in almost 6 million peak viewers in the final fifteen minutes last night.

Over 5.7 million average viewers tuned in to watch the programme during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak slot, securing BBC One with a respectable 26.3% audience share.

At the same time, ITV1’s new documentary Supersize Teens: Can’t Stop Eating, which followed a 24-stone 13-year-old girl Laura as she had gastric bypasss surgery, attracted 3.2 million average viewers and a 15.1% share.

Meanwhile, Channel 4’s new Time Team Special with Tony Robinson – The Secrets of Stonehenge – picked up more than 2 million viewers and a 9.6% share, putting it in third place in the peak-hour ratings war.

Elsewhere, BBC Two’s second of three Who’s Watching You? series attracted 1.8 million viewers, while Five’s film premiere of The Contract, a thriller starring Morgan Freeman and John Cusack, pulled in 1.4 million.

Earlier on in the evening, BBC One’s Eastenders‘ peak of more than 8.2 million viewers knocked its ITV1 rival Coronation Street off the top spot in the on-going battle of the soaps.

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 and key multi-channel stations.