TV Overnights: The soaps rule Monday night TV

The BBC One drama New Tricks topped audience ratings last night as it peaked with 7.9 million viewers, holding an average of 29.7% of the audience share before the show ended at 10pm.

Over on ITV1 Ant & Dec returned with their new game-show Red or Black?, which averaged 4.7 million viewers for both installments, a loss of over a million viewers compared to the opening show that aired Saturday night with 6.1 million. Celebrity Big Brother on Channel  5 averaged 2.2 million viewers with an audience share of 12.2% at 10pm.

The soaps steadily reigned last night as BBC One’s EastEnders gained the highest average audience of the night with 7.6 million, while ITV1’s Emmerdale averaged 7 million viewers followed by Coronation Street with a healthy average of 7.2 million at 9pm.

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.