TV Overnights: Holby City helps BBC dominate Tuesday overnights

BBC One medical drama Holby City helped the channel score a comfortable win in the ratings battle with ITV1. Last night’s edition of the long running show, which saw headstrong Dr Antoine Malick place a patient’s life in danger during a surgical procedure, pulled in an impressive average audience of 5.4 million people and a viewing share of 22.2%.

During the same 8pm slot High Stakes, Jeremy Kyle’s first major primetime show, struggled to compete with only 2.1 million viewers tuning in across ITV1 and ITV1 HD.

Elsewhere, the latest goings on in sunny Walford, saw 8.6 million soap addicts tuning in to Eastenders, whilst new comedy-crime drama Death In Paradise attracted 4.5 million.

ITV1 had some success last night with the fallout from ‘Tedward-gate’ and Pat Sharp’s jungle trial saw I’m A Celebrity achieve an average rating of 7.5 million people to both ITV1 and ITV1 HD. Earlier in the evening Hotton’s finest village folk pulled in 7.2 million viewers.

Over on BBC2 the latest edition of Masterchef: The Professionals was seen by just under 3 million viewers, with 2.1 million watching Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good showing straight afterwards.

The third instalment of Channel 4’s My Transsexual Summer held sway with 998,000 viewers, Channel 5’s CSI: Miami pulled in an audience of 1.3 million and Sky Sports 2’s coverage of Napoli versus Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League was seen by 493,000 football fans.

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.