TV Overnights: Who Do You Think You Are? and Bouquet of Barbed Wire share top spot

ITV1’s Bouquet of Barbed Wire won the 9pm to 9.30pm slot with a peak of 5.5 million viewers and 22% share, before settling down to an average of just under 5 million viewers, and 19.9% share.

BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are? won the 9.30pm to 10pm slot, with a 5.1 million viewer peak and 20.7% share, and an average viewing figure of 4.9 million (with 1 19.6% share).

Elsewhere, BBC Two’s Dragons’ Den secured 2.7 million viewers and a 10.8% share, while Channel 4’s My Family’s Crazy Gap Year attracted 1.2 million viewers and a 4.7% share.

Five’s film Last of the Mohicans, airing from 9pm to 11.15pm, managed an audience of 1.1 million, and a share of 5.6%.

Earlier in the evening, ITV1 won the 7pm to 8pm slot with Emmerdale (7pm to 7.30pm) securing 7.2 million viewers and a 33.2% share, and the first of a two-part Coronation Street (7.30pm to 8pm) attracting 9.1 million viewers and a 39.7% share.

The second of ITV1’s Coronation Street, airing from 8.30pm to 9pm, managed an audience of 8.9 million and a share of 35.6%.

BBC One’s Eastenders won its 8pm to 8.30pm slot with 9.1 million viewers and a 36.1% share.

BBC One won the breakfast ratings as usual; ITV1’s new Daybreak came in second, peaking at 1.4 million viewers, with an average audience of 985,000 viewers and a 24.2% share.

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.