The National TV Awards Lose Out To BBC

ITV1’s National Television Awards show failed to beat BBC One’s popular drama series, Silent Witness, last night.

The forensic drama pulled in 5.9 million average viewers between 9pm and 10pm, while ITV’s National Television Awards attracted an average of 5.2 million.

The 14th National Television Awards ceremony, hosted by Trevor McDonald, saw awards being given to Top Gear, Strictly Come Dancing and Doctor Who, as well as a Special Recognition award to Simon Cowell.

More than 5.4 million peak viewers tuned in to see the awards, securing ITV1 with a 21.9% average audience share between 8pm and 10pm.

Meanwhile, BBC Two’s Hereos picked up more than 2 million viewers with a 5.9% audience share during the 9pm to 10pm peak slot.

At the same time, Channel 4’s fly-on-the-wall documentary The Family attracted over 1.5 million viewers, while Channel five’s Paul Merton in India fell just below with around 1.4 million average viewers.

However, the peak viewing figures for whole the evening were seen by ITV1’s Coronation Street, which banked more than 9.2 million average viewers between 7.30pm and 8pm.

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