TV Overnights: BBC One secures peak-time run

BBC One secured a peak-run from 7.30pm onwards last night with Eastenders, Holby City and Survivors.

Eastenders pulled in the highest ratings of the evening with more than 9.5 million peak viewers and a 40.1% average audience share between 7.30pm and 8pm.

The channel’s long-running hospital drama Holby City followed with a high of 6 million viewers and a 24.6% average share during the pre-watershed 8pm to 9pm hour-long slot.

Episode three of Survivors, BBC One’s peak-hour drama with Julie Graham and Max Beesley, attracted a lower 3.9 million peak viewers and a 16.2% audience share but still managed to secure the 9pm to 10pm top spot.

At the same time, BBC Two’s How Earth Made Us series continued with 3 million peak viewers and a 12% average audience share, just ahead of Channel Five’s ever-popular CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which banked 2.7 million viewers and a 10.6% share.

ITV1’s Amanda Holden’s Fantasy Lives came in at fourth place in the peak-hour ratings war with 2.2 million average viewers and a 9.3% share, followed by Channel 4’s one-off documentary Haiti’s Killer Quake: Why It Happened, which pulled in 1.6 million viewers and a 6.7% 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.