TV Overnights: Final Young Apprentice wins 4.7m viewers

BBC One’s final Young Apprentice easily claimed the peak-hour ratings with a high of 4.7 million viewers last night.

The last in the series attracted more than 4.3 million average viewers and a 17% audience share during the 9pm to 10pm slot, beating ITV’s new documentary The Real Thumbelina to the top spot.

The Real Thumbelina claimed 3.5 million average viewers and a 14% audience share for ITV1, though the channel’s pre-watershed line-up dominated the Monday night ratings.

Emmerdale pulled in more than 7.8 million peak viewers in the 7pm to 7.30pm slot, while the first trip to Coronation Street gained a high of 8.9 million viewers in the 7.30pm to 8pm slot.

After a short break, the second episode of Corrie banked a peak audience of 8.3 million viewers before the 9pm peak-hour (not including ITV1 HD).

Elsewhere during the 9pm to 10pm slot, BBC Two’s one-off I Had the X Factor… 25 Years Ago: A Wonderland Special secured over two million average viewers and a 8.1% audience share, while Jimmy’s Grow Your Own Christmas Dinner picked up 1.7 million viewers and a 7% audience share for Channel 4.

On Channel 5, the penultimate episode of Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers achieved an average audience of 818,000 viewers between 9pm and 10pm.

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.