24 Hours In A&E returns with 2.4m

The return of The Garden’s long running fixed-rig hospital series for a seventh run failed to treat a larger audience than the 2.9m (13.3%) who tuned in to the previous opener in May.

The show, based in a new hospital in Tooting, performed well above C4’s 1.6m (7.2%) slot average for the past 12 months, according to overnight data from Attentional.

It also outperformed The Garden’s recent fixed-rig C4 doc 24 Hours in Police Custody which locked up 2m (9%) for its Monday evening launch episode in September.

Opposite BBC1 won the 9pm slot against stiff competition.

David Attenborough’s Life Story, which featured tiger cubs and cheetahs, recorded 3.9m (18.9%), a slight drop on the 4.4m (21.2%) that watched last week’s opener.

Ecosse Films’ The Great Fire continued to shed viewers on ITV, losing nearly 300,000 viewers from last week to bring it to 2.6m (12.4%) for its third episode.

BBC2 drama Peaky Blinders remained steady in its penultimate episode. The show entertained 1.4m (6.9%) viewers, in line with last week’s outing.

Channel 5’s The Sham Wedding Crashers, a one-off doc exposing fraudulent marriages, recorded 970,000 (4.6%), slightly down on the channel’s 1.2m (5.7%) slot average.

At 10pm prison doc Inside Holloway locked up 896,000 to bow out with an average of 935,000 (6%), up on the channel’s slot average of 892,000 (5.4%).  

The superhero drama returned with around 100,000 viewers less than its series two opener.

The US acquisition, in which a new villain arrived in Starling City, opened last year with 502,000 (2.1%).

Elsewhere on pay-TV, Discovery’s new six-part adventure series Tethered, which ties two complete strangers together, scored 71,000 (0.3%) on its UK launch, which was slightly up on the channel’s 56,000 (0.3%) slot average.