TV Overnights: Live FA Cup coverage scores higher than new Panorama special

ITV1’s Live FA Cup Football coverage secured the majority of the prime time ratings last night, ahead of BBC One’s new one-off Panorama special, Chocolate: The Bitter Truth.

The Tottenham v Fulham match, which ended 3-1 to Spurs, pulled in a high of more than 5.4 million viewers at 9pm, and secured 4.2 million average viewers and a 18.7% audience share overall between 7.30pm and 10pm.

It managed to bank the peak audience throughout nearly all of the key 9pm to 10pm slot, with the exception of the final fifteen minutes, which went to BBC One.

The channel’s new documentary, Chocolate: The Bitter Truth, which saw Paul Kenyon pose as a cocoa buyer and travel to West Africa, attracted 3.5 million peak viewers between 9.45pm and 10pm, but settled on 3.2 million average viewers and a 13.9% share between 9pm and 10pm.

At the same time, BBC Two’s final Inside John Lewis programme picked up 2.1 million viewers and a 9.2% share, equal to Five’s long-running NCIS show.

Channel 4’s Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA, meanwhile, settled on 1.8 million average viewers and a 7.8% share.

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.