TV Overnights: Scrap in the Queen Vic secures 7.6m for BBC One
Another quiet Tuesday evening down the Vic, then. The messy particulars of Roxy Mitchell’s misguided love life helped EastEnders secure the largest audience of Tuesday night. 7.6 million viewers tuned in to see the peroxide pariah, formerly of The Mitchell Sisters, accidentally reveal her true feelings for a certain beau. Always bringing a sense of class and style to her romantic endeavours, Roxy wound up getting into a screaming match with Bianca, resulting in the erratic blonde getting pinned down by Queen Vic regulars and then saved by Captain Dreamboat himself, Alfie Moon.
A 36% audience share watched as her wild, love-struck eyes met his – subtly informing everyone in the pub, and possibly some astronauts in orbit, the amorous intentions going through her chemically unbalanced mind.
The fourth episode in Mo’ Money drama, The Syndicate (BBC One, 9pm), achieved a 23% audience share last night, with the narrative switching focus to Joanna Page’s character. Leanne was dealing with finding her missing daughter as well as finally facing up to the secretive past that has been constantly alluded to for the past three episodes. The drama has been securing an average audience of 5.4 million viewers for the past four weeks; last night’s instalment pulled in the largest audience yet, with 5.5 million viewers.
Denise also got her mush in the spotlight as her million pound makeover proved its worth, resulting in a little action of the romantic variety.
Over on BBC Two The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation (9pm) managed to pull in the usual 2.9 million viewers. In this, the fifth episode of the hirsute duo’s baking odyssey, Dave Myers and Si King and their hogs made it all the way to Italy, where the lack of roads proved frustrating. 12.9% of the available audience watched as the BFFs banged out fresh Focaccia, Stromboli and pasta pies. It wasn’t all work though as the pair managed yet again to slip in some family recreational time on the taxpayers dime as they visited Si’s sister in Tuscany.
Sir Trevor McDonald’s second round of Mississippi meandering was down 385,000 viewers week on week but remained ITV1’s most watched show of the evening, after Emmerdale. The Mighty Mississippi with Trevor McDonald (9pm) saw the semi-retired broadcaster meet Morgan Freeman, tour the site where Martin Luther King was assassinated and chat to a former girlfriend of Elvis Presley, all the while keeping a certain distance. This week’s instalment was watched by 2.6 million viewers.
Alternatively on BBC Three at 9pm was I Woke Up Gay, a one hour expansion on that questionable Daily Mail article you probably pretend you didn’t read a few months back. 456,000 people watched Chris Birch explaining how he used to be fat, play rugby, drink beer and bed the women until a stroke sent him to the hospital where he woke up with a keen interest in fashion, interior décor and a taste for the fabulous. The sensationalist documentary (this is BBC Three, after all) existed in a void where there wasn’t room for scientific or psychological questioning, instead coming across as a promotional piece commissioned by Chris himself.
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