TV Overnights: BBC One dominates the Tuesday evening line-up

BBC One secured a peak run from 5.30pm onwards last night with the exception of just one 30-minute slot at 7pm.

The Weakest Link started off the channel’s prime time run with 2.4 million average viewers and a 15.4% audience share, followed by the BBC News at Six, Regional News and Weather.

The One Show, meanwhile, lost out to ITV1’s Emmerdale at 7pm.  The ITV1 soap pulled in a high of more than 7.2 million viewers ahead of The One Show‘s 5.8 million peak viewers.

BBC One’s Eastenders claimed the peak audience back at 7.30pm, however, with over 10.6 million peak viewers and a 43% average audience share.  Holby City followed with 6.3 million average viewers and a 25.5% share between 8pm and 9pm.

The final episode of Survivors, meanwhile, banked the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour top spot with 3.6 million viewers and a 14.4% average share, seeing off competition from BBC Two’s Winter Olympics 2010 coverage and Channel 4’s new documentary One Born Every Minute.

Channel 4’s real-life documentary looking at the difficulties of labour pulled in 3.2 million viewers and a 12.9% share, just pipping Five’s popular CSI: Trilogy to second place in the peak-hour ratings war.

Five picked up an equal 3.2 million average viewers  between 9pm and 10pm but secured a slightly lower 12.6% average share.  Elsewhere, BBC Two’s Winter Olympics 2010 continued with 3 million average viewers and a 12.5% audience share.

At the same time, ITV1’s new Seven Days in Traffic, a documentary looking at the stresses and strains of driving in Central London, attracted a fairly low 1.9 million average viewers and a 7.8% share.

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.