ITV’s I’m a Celebrity winge-fest nets 9.5 million viewers
Monday’s most popular TV action was brought to viewers by celebrities’ precious tears as the sixth episode of ITV’s reality show saw a few of the contestants grow tired of life in the jungle.
With devious snakes, poisonous leeches and other animals with a poor brain-to-body mass ratio all taking part, it comes almost guaranteed that inter-contestant tensions will pop up near the half-way point of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (ITV, 9pm) to spice things up.
The biggest audience of the day watched a Miss Universe get upset because her keen interest of showering and sunbathing was interrupted by a task that she didn’t even get to compete in. And that wasn’t all the excitement that was on offer – last night’s audience of 9.5 million viewers were also treated to scenes of retired Olympic swimmer, Rebecca Adlington, loosen her own tear ducts and having a right old moan.
The surplus of emotional issues that come up when one is imprisoned in a camp full of self-serving egos that even a jungle can’t hide, won the day’s biggest audience with a 38% share.
At the same time on BBC Two, Gareth Malone and his immensely distracting face rug was back to swing his arms about and feign energy and joy as he tried to clump together a winning choir in the Cheshire Fire Service.
The fourth episode of The Choir: Sing While You Work featuring more innuendos than Sue Perkins would know what to do with as Gareth fixated on the fact he was surrounded by ‘strong men’. A consistent audience of 2.3 million viewers watched the latest team of tenors assemble, netting a 9% share.
In the prime time slot, BBC One had the fifth episode of the second series of vicious Victorian romp Ripper Street (9pm). After bravely dealing with stark raving feminists, drug-happy foreigners and the Irish in the past few weeks, last night saw the detectives deal with the flood of homosexualists that were invading the capital.
As the weeks go by, viewers are struggling to keep up with the fast paced show, with last night’s enlightening disturbing case of the abuse of power claiming 3 million viewers and a 12% share.
At the same time, Marine Biologist Monty Halls jumped back to Channel 5 after a dalliance with every other major broadcaster – possibly because they always give him the fun stuff to do.
No longer sitting around glum UK locales attempting to convey to viewers just how miserable a life defined by the ocean can be, Monty Halls and the Kaiser’s Gold (9pm) spoke of adventure and exotic locales. An audience of 823,000 viewers tuned in to see the passionate diver explore the lakes of Africa, securing a 3% share.
Meanwhile Channel 5 brought us The CCTV Traffic Wardens: Caught on Camera at 9pm, because at some point every other member of society has been the focus of Channel 4’s cameras, so why not? 1.3 million viewers were caught up in the unadulterated excitement of Bristol’s traffic reformation, resulting in a 5% share.
The soaps were the main focus if the early evening, with a double helping of Coronation Street (ITV, 7:30pm & 8:30pm) leaving no doubt which drama the nation loves the most. The first episode won an audience of 9.1 million with the second slice of Weatherfield hijinks pulling in an even 9 million viewers.
Its official then – EastEnders (BBC One, 8pm) has been defeating rural rival Emmerdale (ITV, 7pm) for enough consecutive days that it’s safe to say that the cockney carry-on has reaffirmed its position as the nation’s second favourite soap.
Ever since Cameron, the man who held the village’s prestigious post of Bad Boy, drowned in his watery grave beneath the Woolpack in October, the soap has been struggling to attract those ever important casual fans – the type of spontaneous viewer that helped Emmerdale dominant over EastEnders throughout the summer.
The first trip of the week to the Yorkshire Dales was watched by 7.4 million people and a 34% share.
Last night’s Walford drama was a good 1 million ahead, with a total of 8.4 million viewers tuning in to see Kat and Alfie continue to epically feck up their own lives and the lives of those around them. E20’s latest disastrous wedding secured a 34% share.
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