TV Overnights: New Tricks pips penultimate Married Single Other

BBC One’s long-running New Tricks drama pipped ITV1’s penultimate Married Single Other to the top spot last night.

New Tricks, which guest starred ex-Eastenders actor Shane Ritchie, attracted 4.3 million average viewers and a 17.1% audience share during last night’s 9pm to 10pm peak slot.

Married Single Other, meanwhile, secured a slightly lower 4 million average viewers and a 15.9% share during the same hour-long slot.

Elsewhere, Channel 4’s popular The Secret Millionaire, with businessman Fil Adams-Mercer, picked up 2.4 million average viewers and a 9.7% share, while Five’s FlashForward pulled in 1.9 million viewers and a 7.8% share.

Over on BBC Two, the last in the series of Sue Perkin’s A Band for Britain banked 1.5 million average viewers and a 6.1% share.

Earlier on in the evening, the soaps battled it out for the top pre-watershed spot.  ITV1’s Coronation Street just managed to beat BBC One’s Eastenders with 10.9 million peak viewers compared to Eastenders’ 10.1 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.