TV Overnights: I’m a Celeb wins peak spot with 8.3m viewers

ITV1’s latest I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! continued with a peak audience of more than 8.3 million viewers last night.

The hour-long update from the Australian jungle secured the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour top spot with eight million average viewers and a 31.7% audience share.

ITV1’s new series started on Sunday night with a debut audience of more than 11.4 million peak viewers.

Last night, its nearest rival – BBC One’s Turn Back Time – The High Street – pulled in a smaller average audience (4.6 million viewers) and a 18.1% share during the all-important peak-hour, while Channel 5’s CSI Miami banked third place with 1.7 million viewers and a 6.8% share.

Over on BBC Two, the latest Horizon: Deepwater Disaster pulled in 1.1 million average viewers and a 4.7% share, while an average audience of just over a million viewers tuned in to Channel 4 for the new series of The Family. This time round, the fly-on-the-wall documentary series will focus on a black British family living in Hackney, east London.

Earlier on in the evening, BBC One secured a peak-run with The One Show, Eastenders and Holby City. Out of the three, Eastenders attracted the highest audience with 7.2 million peak viewers.

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.