TV Overnights: BBC One wins the 9pm slot with Have I Got News For You and Outnumbered

BBC One dominated the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour ratings last night with its double line-up of Have I Got News for You and Outnumbered.

The comedy quiz show with guest host Eamonn Holmes pulled in 5.6 million peak viewers and a 24.4% average audience share between 9pm and 9.30pm, before the last in the series of Outnumbered, which stars Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis, picked up a high of 5.4 million viewers and a 23.9% share between 9.30pm to 10pm.

ITV1’s Thursday evening schedule came second place in the peak-hour ratings war.  The second episode of the new three-part series All at Sea with celebrities Nick Hancock, Dawn Porter and Bradley Walsh, attracted 3.6 million peak viewers and a 14.6% share.

Elsewhere, Channel 4’s penultimate How the Other Half Live pipped BBC Two’s History Cold Case to third place with 1.6 million average viewers and a 7.5% share between 9pm and 10pm.  History Cold Case, meanwhile, settled on 1.5 million average viewers and a 6.9% share.

Over on Five, the channel’s 9pm film The Invasion with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig pulled in 1.3 million average viewers and a 6.5% audience share.

Earlier on in the evening, the soaps dominated the pre-watershed slots.  BBC One’s Eastenders managed to beat ITV1’s Corrie to the top spot with an impressive 7.8 million peak viewers compared to Coronation Street‘s 7.3 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.