Overnights: The Street banks the top spot with 5.3m viewers

BBC One’s The Street secured the highest ratings during the all-important prime time slot last with 5.3 million peak viewers.

The second episode in the six-part series, which saw a single mother played by Anna Friel turn to prostitution to pay off her debts and provide for her two sons, attracted over 5 million average viewers and a 22.5% audience share between 9pm and 10pm.

At the same time, ITV1’s more light-hearted rival series Monday Monday, starring Fay Ripley and Holly Aird, pulled in a high of 3.9 million viewers and a 15% average audience share.

BBC Two’s The Supersizers Eat just pipped Five to claim third place in the peak hour ratings war with more than 2 million peak viewers and a respectable 8.3% share. Five’s The Hotel Inspector, meanwhile, picked up a high of 1.8 million viewers and a 7.6% average share.

Elsewhere, Channel 4’s Inside Nature’s Giants, which followed the evolutionary story of the giraffe, attracted just 1.4 million average viewers and a 6.4% share during the peak-hour.

Earlier on in the evening, the soaps battled it out for the highest overall ratings. ITV1’s Coronation Street managed banked the top spot once again with a high of 9.1 million viewers compared to BBC One’s Eastenders‘ 8.4 million.

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.