TV Overnights: BBC One banks a prime time ratings run

BBC One secured a prime time ratings run last night with Eastenders, Holby City and Silk.

The fourth episode of Silk, starring Maxine Peake and Neil Stuke, banked the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour ratings with 4.9 million viewers and a 20% average audience share.

However, Eastenders attracted the highest ratings of the night – peaking with more than 8.7 million viewers and a 37.2% average share in the 7.30pm to 8pm slot.

Meanwhile, in the 8pm to 9pm slot, Holby City achieved an average audience of 5.5 million viewers and a 20% share.

Elsewhere, Emmerdale pulled in ITV1’s peak audience of the evening. The Yorkshire-based soap picked up more than 7 million viewers between 7pm and 7.30pm. The channel’s peak-hour show Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India did less well, settling on just 1.9 million viewers and a 8% share between 9pm and 10pm.

Channel 5’s was BBC One’s closest competitor during the 9pm to 10pm slot with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which attracted over 2.1 million viewers and a 9% share.

At the same time, Channel 4’s Heston’s Mission Impossible continued with 1.7 million viewers, while BBC Two’s new Bible’s Buried Secrets picked up 1.6 million viewers.

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.