John Deed Sees BBC Friday Night Success

BBC1’s Judge John Deed proved as popular as ever on Friday night, with the ratings winner attracting an average adult audience of 5.5 million, compared to A Touch of Frost on ITV, drawing in an audience of 4.4 million.

The Winter Olympics continued to pull in viewers, with a healthy average adult audience of just over 3 million on Friday night.

Elsewhere, Channel 4 enjoyed a consistent performance, slowly pushing its audience up over the evening’s programming. Will and Grace drew just over one million viewers, while The IT Crowd attracted 1.6 million and My Name is Earl

Saturday night saw ITV win the ratings war, with celebrity ice skating show, Dancing on Ice attracting an average adult audience of 8.3 million, dipping slightly for the latter slot to 7.8 million.

Meanwhile, the BBC enjoyed an average adult audience of 4.4 million for Match of the Day, 6.8 million for Casualty and 3.8 million for The Bone Collector.

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