TV Overnights: BBC One’s Turn Back Time debuts with 5.4m viewers
BBC One’s new addition to the Tuesday evening line-up Turn Back Time – The High Street helped the channel secure a peak run from 7.30pm through to 11.30pm.
The first episode of the new four-part series, which sees shopkeepers experience life on the high street in re-creations of six eras of British History, started on a high of 5.4 million viewers and a 21.9% average audience share during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak-slot.
However, Eastenders started off BBC One’s peak run at 7.30pm with an impressive audience of 9.1 million viewers and a 38.1% share. Holby City followed with more than 5.8 million peak viewers and a 23.3% share during the 8pm to 9pm slot.
From 10pm onwards, BBC News at Ten easily banked the highest ratings before BBC One’s new documentary Taking the Keys Away attracted 3.4 million peak viewers and a 19.6% average share between 10.35pm and 11.20pm.
BBC One’s new Tuesday night line-up might have dominated the prime time ratings but ITV1 didn’t have a bad run with new series River Monsters pulling in over three million average viewers during the 7.30pm to 8pm slot; Fiddles, Cheats & Scams picking up 2.7 million in the 8pm to 9pm hour; and the last 71 Degrees North attracting 3.3 million during the 9pm to 10pm peak-slot.
Meanwhile, BBC Two’s schedule was boosted by the MasterChef: The Professionals final, which achieved a peak audience of more than 4.3 million viewers and a 14.6% average audience share between 7.30pm and 9pm.
Over on Channel 4, the new series of Kirstie’s Homemade Home peaked with over two million viewers between 8pm and 9pm, while Ramsay’s Best Restaurant attracted a high of 1.3 million viewers and a 5.8% average audience share during the 9pm to 10pm slot.
At the same time, an average audience of around 1.9 million viewers tuned in to watch Channel 5’s ever-popular CSI: Miami.
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