TV Overnights: ITV1’s Strangeways secures the top spot with 5.2m

ITV1’s new Strangeways documentary series secured the all-important peak-hour ratings for a second week running with 5.2 million peak viewers.

The fly-on-the-wall series, which is due to finish next week, banked 4.9 million average viewers and a 20.7% audience share during the 9pm to 10pm slot, ahead of BBC One’s new The Street That Cut Everything.

The new Nick Robinson documentary, which investigates an unusual social experiment in Preston, pulled in a lower three million average viewers and a 12.7% audience share.

On Channel 5, The Hotel Inspector with Alex Polizzi settled on 1.6 million viewers and a 7.1% average audience share between 9pm and 10pm, while BBC Two’s Children’s Craniofacial Surgery attracted 1.4 million viewers and a 6.2% share.

At the same time, Channel 4’s Gordon’s Great Escape achieved an average audience of one million viewers and a 4.6% share.

Earlier on in the evening, the soaps dominated the pre-watershed schedule. BBC One’s Eastenders claimed the highest ratings of the night, peaking with 8.8 million viewers.

Meanwhile, ITV1’s Emmerdale picked up a high of 6.9 million viewers, while Coronation Street managed 8.2 million peak 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.