TV Overnights: Ryan’s injury antics rake in 7m for ITV

The arrival of college boy Ryan back on the fabled cobbles of Coronation Street (8.30pm, ITV1) has certainly shaken up the quiet, unassuming lives of Wetherfield’s finest.

Fresh from trying his luck with Sophie Webster, last night’s episode saw the work-shy teenager fake an injury to earn some much-needed cash.

Threatening to sue Underworld for his “grevious” injuries – caused by the devious so-and-so unscrewing a shelf and lying prostrate on the floor – an average of 6.8 million (and an audience share of 31.2%) were sufficiently enthralled by Corrie’s latest bad boy to stay watching.

On the other side of the soap coin, Eastenders (7.30pm, BBC1) pulled in a peak (and average) audience of 6.6 million (32.5% share) with the highest ratings of the day for BBC1.

The Kat storyline, fast becoming akin to a child’s GCSE film studies project, took another dramatic turn as her “mystery” lover left a key to a flat to simplify the problems of their recent dalliance.

With the Olympics a week away, and the disappointment of Euro 2012 and Wimbledon still being sorely felt by sports fans everywhere, what better tonic than tuning in to watch a number of smartly-dressed men hit balls around a large, open green space with what Jeremy Clarkson once referred to as “bats”.

The Open Championship golf (9am, BBC2), live from Lancashire, pulled in an average of one million viewers and 8.6% of the audience share, nabbing the highest share at 2.15pm, 3pm and 3.45pm, with Australian Adam Scott leading the pack.

Despite briefly stealing the largest individual audience share (12.4%) for the 4pm-5pm slot, Deal or No Deal (4pm, Channel 4) was trumped by Glen Simpson’s Liverpool soiree in Come Dine with Me (5.30pm, Channel 4), peaking at 1.7 million viewers and an 11.4% average audience share.

The Hotel Inspector (9pm, Channel 5), meanwhile, came to leafy Ealing, west London aiming to turn around a flagging hotel in desperate need of some TLC. The Caspian Hotel, despite its cosiness, hasn’t turned out to be quite as successful as co-owner Nousha Samari hoped – with serious consequences for her marriage.

More than 1.4 million (average share of 6.7%) tuned in to see Alex Polizzi don his superhero cape and inject some life into this beleaguered family hotel.

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.