TV Overnights: Live Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? wins a high of 4.6m viewers

Live Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Christmas Special won a peak audience of more than 4.6 million viewers during prime time last night.

The 90 minute show, with host Chris Tarrant, attracted over 4.3 million average viewers and a 17.7% audience share for ITV1 between 8.30pm and 10pm.

However, BBC One’s Young James Herriot claimed the peak ratings from 9.30pm onwards, pulling in more than 4.4 million viewers in the second half of the peak-hour.

The second episode of the three part drama, which will conclude tonight, banked over 4.3 million average viewers and a 17.7% audience share in the full 9pm to 10pm slot.

ITV1 and BBC One also shared the pre-watershed ratings. In the 7pm to 8pm slot, Emmerdale and Coronation Street secured 7 million and 8.3 million average viewers respectively, before BBC One’s Eastenders attracted 8.7 million average viewers between 8pm and 8.30pm.

A Question of Sport Christmas Special also claimed the top spot for BBC One between 8.30pm and 9pm with 4.7 million peak viewers.

Elsewhere, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff picked up 1.8 million average viewers for BBC Two between 8.30pm and 9.30pm, before The Rob Brydon Show Xmas Special won a high of 1.3 million viewers.

On Channel 4, 1.8 million average viewers tuned in for the Cutting Edge documentary King of Christmas Lights. Meanwhile, Channel 5’s 9 o’clock film Step Brothers settled on 1.4 million average viewers and a 6.5% 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.