TV Overnights: The Royal Variety Performance wins the top spot for BBC One

The Royal Variety Performance easily secured the prime time ratings with a high of more than 9.6 million viewers last night.

BBC One’s coverage of the show pulled in over 8.3 million average viewers and a 33% audience share between 8pm and 10pm.

The channel’s flagship soap Eastenders also attracted a high of more than 8.6 million viewers and a 37.2% share during the early evening 7.30pm and 8pm slot.

Elsewhere, ITV1’s Coronation Street peaked with almost nine million viewers and a 33.2% share, before Celebrity Grime-fighters picked up more than 3.5 million viewers and a 12.2% share during the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour.

At the same time, BBC Two’s At Home with the Georgians secured 1.2 million average viewers and a 5% share, while 5’s popular NCIS banked 1.1 million viewers and a 4.7% share.

Channel 4’s peak-hour ratings were less impressive – The House That Made Me settled on a low 697,000 viewers between 9pm and 10pm, although Million Pound Drop pulled in more than a million viewers during the 8pm to 9pm slot and Jamie’s Christmas Lock-In also picked up 1.1 million peak viewers in the 10pm to 11pm slot.

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.