TV Overnights: BBC One Snags Tuesday Night Ratings Crown

A strong line up of programmes help BBC One to comfortably win the ratings battle with ITV1, with Eastenders predictably coming out on top.

The latest goings on down in Albert Square were seen by a peak audience of 8.4 million people, with an average viewing share of 23.6%. Also doing well was medical drama Holby City, which managed to attract a high of 5.5 million during the first fifteen minutes of broadcast.

Rounding off the evening was the final episode of Silent Witness spin-off The Body Farm, which concluded its run with a peak audience of 4.7 million viewers.

ITV1’s only success of the night was rural soap opera Emmerdale, which pulled in 6.5 million viewers. Subsequent programmes on the channel struggled against BBC One’s line up, with Mayday Mayday, Jerermy Kyle fronted quiz show High Stakes and 71 Degrees North attracting audiences between 1.7 and 2.3 million viewers.

Elsewhere the second week of Channel 4’s live edition of Deal Or No Deal seemed to be popular with daytime audiences, with yesterday’s edition being watched by nearly 2 million people. Over on Channel 5 popular crime series CS1 Miami kept 1.7 million glued to their sets.

Sky Sports 2 coverage of Manchester City vs Villareal didn’t quite top the million viewer barrier, with a peak audience of 938,000 people tuning into the final fifteen minutes of the first half.

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.