TV Overnights: BBC One enjoys a clean sweep

BBC One enjoyed a peak run all day on Saturday – securing the top ratings with its coverage of the Live Athletics: European Indoor Championships, Final Score and Let’s Dance for Comic Relief.

Live Athletics dominated the afternoon slot, pulling in more than 1.5 million average viewers and a 14.3% audience share between 1pm and 4.30pm, before a Final Score Comic Relief special picked up 2.3 million viewers and a 16.3% share between 4.30pm and 5.20pm.

In the evening slots, the penultimate Let’s Dance for Comic Relief attracted a high of more than 6.7 million viewers, while The National Lottery: Secret Fortune peaked with 6.5 million viewers.

Casualty followed with 6.1 million peak viewers, before Live at the Apollo banked 4.3 million, and Match of the Day secured 4 million.

Over on ITV1, Ant & Dec’s Push the Button, which is a popular choice among tweeters, achieved an average audience of 4.1 million viewers, while Take Me Out attracted 4.4 million viewers.

On Sunday, the ratings were more divided. BBC One dominated the morning slots with Match of the Day, The Andrew Marr show and The Politics Show. However, BBC Two’s Something for the Weekend and Live Athletics coverage also got a look in.

ITV1 was more or less the winner during the afternoon and evening slots with Columbo, Harry Hill’s TV Burp Dancing on Ice and Wild at Heart, though Channel 4’s Deal or No Deal banked the top spot for a 15 minute period at 5pm.

Dancing on Ice peaked with more than 8.1 million viewers, while Wild at Heart secured a high of 6.7 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.