Royal Variety Performance attracts 6.8m on ITV1 (original) (raw)

This year's Royal Variety Performance was seen by 6.76m (29.2%) from 7.30pm on ITV1 last night, according to overnight audience data.

Although this figure was down from the 8.34m that saw it on BBC One in 2010, the gala evening did help ITV1 win primetime while also grabbing an additional 252k (1.2%) on +1.

The Royal Variety Performance comfortably dominated BBC One's Wednesday lineup, which included That's Britain! (3.08m/14%) from 7.30pm, The Impressions Show (2.16m/9%) from 8.30pm and Panorama (2.27m/9.4%) from 9pm.

Would I Lie to You? rounded off the night for BBC One with 1.89m (14%) from 10.45pm.

On BBC Two, Victorian Farm Christmas took 1.56m (7.3%) from 7pm. Afterwards, MasterChef: The Professionals cooked up 3.14m (13.3%) while Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy earned 1.42m (5.9%). 1.01m (4.9%) attended 10pm's Class Dismissed.

The second episode of Channel 4's This Is England '88 was watched by 1.5m (8.4%) from 10pm (+1: 164k/1.7%). Earlier in the night, A Superscrimpers Christmas had 1.3m (5.5%) from 8pm (+1: 200k/0.8%) while Jamie's Christmas with Bells On treated 1.94m (8.1%) in the 9pm hour (+1: 346k/1.9%).

Channel 5's programming consisted primarily of live Europa League football, averaging 1.64m (7.1%).

ITV1 convincingly took primetime victory with a share of 26.7% (+1: 0.9%). BBC One (13.9%) and BBC Two (8.2%) followed, while Channel 4 finished with 6.2% (+1: 0.9%) and Channel 5 had 5.7%.