TV Overnights: New Tricks wins the peak-hour top spot

BBC One’s New Tricks stole the peak audience share away from ITV1’s comedy drama Married Single Other during the all-important 9pm to 10pm slot last night.

The long-running BBC drama, which stars Alun Armstrong and Amanda Redman, secured 4.2 million peak viewers and a 16.6% average audience share during the hour-long slot, compared with Married Single Other‘s 4.3 million peak viewers but lower 15.8% average share.

Elsewhere, Channel 4’s popular series The Secret Millionaire pulled in 2.3 million average viewers and a 9.6% share, while BBC Two’s second A Band for Britain picked up 1.6 million average viewers and a 6.6% share.

Over on Five, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly spaghetti western film starring Clint Eastwood attracted 1.2 million average viewers and a 8.7% share between 9pm and 12.40am.

Earlier on in the evening, the soaps dominated the pre-watershed slot.  BBC One’s Eastenders pulled in a high of more than 9.6 million peak viewers but was pipped to the top spot by ITV1’s Coronation Street, which banked over 10.1 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.