TV Overnights: BBC One secures a peak prime-time run

BBC One secured the highest ratings all evening yesterday with a peak run of Eastenders, Holby City and Crimewatch.

Eastenders pulled in an impressive 8.3 million peak viewers and a 39% average audience share between 7.30pm and 8pm, kick-starting the channel’s string of peak programmes.

BBC’s long-running hospital drama Holby City followed with 5.5 million viewers and a 24.2% share, before Crimewatch picked up a high of 4 million viewers and a 16.8% share during the all-important 9pm to 10pm slot.

BBC One also held on to the peak audience after 10pm with News at Ten and the new Richard Wilson show, Two Feet in th Grave, which saw the actor looking into Britain’s reluctance to discuss death.

Over on ITV1, the penultimate episode of The Fixer attracted 2.8 million average viewers between 9pm and 10pm, putting it in second place in the peak-hour ratings war with a million less viewers than BBC One’s Crimewatch.

BBC Two’s new The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing Revisited didn’t come far behind, meanwhile, with 2.5 million average viewers and a 11.4% share.

At the same time, Five’s ever-popular CSI:Miami just pipped Jamie’s American Road Trip on Channel 4, which pulled in 2.1 million average viewers compared to Five’s 2.2 million.

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.