Dessert week sees Bake Off fall slightly to 9.6m on BBC One
After rising all the way past 10 million viewers for last week’s ‘doughverload’, yesterday saw The Great British Bake Off (8pm) struggled to maintain that impressive bench mark as the various ingredients of dessert week saw the audience falter slightly.
The fourth week of the sixth series saw the nine remaining contestants tackle crème brûlées for a signature challenge before blindly baking some meringue monstrosity called a Spanische Windtorte, which produced the usual mixed results.
An audience of 9.6 million viewers watched one particular baker completely fail at the last hurdle as the showstopper challenge of a three-tiered cheesecake got the better of them, resulting in a gluttonous mess.
An audience share of 43% tuned in to see the most unsurprising elimination of the series so far, resulting in the day’s biggest hit and easily topping Wednesday’s TV Twitter chart.
BBC One’s winning streak also ran into the 9pm window with the second part of Anne Robinson’s vague and unfocused show about… how different people have different amounts of money, maybe.
After visiting a flat and interacting with a deprived Pot Noodle-munching human last week, the concluding installment of Britain’s Spending Secrets saw Anne meet an extremely wealthy London mansion-dwelling northerner (he had a regional accent and everything!).
If that wasn’t enough to blow people’s minds, Anne decided to make the billionaire cry by dredging up personal tragedies in a bizarre attempt to prove people with more money than you can miraculously still feel.
After somehow sucking in 5.5 million viewers last week, yesterday saw 4.7 million viewers come back for more, resulting in a 34% share and securing the 9pm slot for BBC One.
On ITV, there was a repeat of the last ever episode of the critically acclaimed Foyle’s War at 8pm, with the two-hour farewell bringing in 2.1 million viewers and a 10% share.
Over on Channel 4, the fourth series of constructed reality show Posh Pawn got under way at 8pm, with chancer supreme James Constantinou and the gang at Prestige Pawnbrokers capturing an audience of a little over 1 million and a 5% share.
[advert position=”left”]Afterwards, the penultimate episode of One Born Every Minute‘s (9pm) eighth series saw more little ones ejected into the world, resulting in Channel 4’s biggest audience of the day. 1.2 million viewers tuned in to welcome the newborns into the world, resulting in a 6% share.
BBC Two provided prime time’s highbrow escape, with Horizon at 8pm taking a look at people living with OCD, resulting in 720,000 viewers and a 3% share while at 9pm, the third instalment of Indian transport show World’s Busiest Railway 2015 was watched by 1.6 million viewers and an 8% share.
Things were a little different over on Channel 5 as The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door set the tone at 8pm, with 1.1 million viewers and a 5% share tuning in to see how squabbles can quickly turn to tragedy.
The fourth and final episode of investigative journalist Paul Connolly’s Undercover Benefits Cheat offered up plenty of tips to scam the system and secured 1.1 million viewers and a 6% share.
Earlier in the day at 7pm on ITV, Emmerdale saw Emma and Finn spend the beautiful summer’s evening in the countryside searching for their brother’s corpse. The happy soap about the simple ways of rural life was watched by 5.8 million viewers and a 33% share.
While Coronation Street couldn’t wrestle the day’s top spot out of BBC One’s hands, the northern soap still secured a very healthy audience of 6.7 million viewers, with the latest family feuds from Weatherfield netting a 35% share.
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