Latest overnights – Page 170
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Citizen Khan's community shrinks
Mr Khan’s return to BBC1 on Friday entertained a community of around 500,000 fewer than the first series opener.
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Homeland returns with 2.2m
Homeland returned to Channel 4 with its lowest series debut audience to date on Sunday, as Downton Abbey continued to dominate.
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Strictly Come Dancing hits high note
The absence of Sir Bruce Forsyth did not prevent Strictly Come Dancing from waltzing off with a series high audience on Saturday.
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Search for Modern Medicines provides remedy for BBC4
Michael Mosley’s new science series Pain, Pus and Poison: the Search for Modern Medicines had the right chemistry for BBC4 on a quiet night for viewing on Thursday.
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Bake Off rises to series high
The Great British Bake Off rose to a series high of more than 6m viewers for BBC2 on Tuesday, as The Wrong Mans lost 1m viewers.
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The Face stumbles on debut
Naomi Campbell’s heavily-trailed new Sky Living modelling show The Face stumbled on its catwalk debut on Monday night.
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Downton Abbey remains imperious
Downton Abbey continued its sterling form on Sunday, adding more than 100k viewers to last week’s record-breaking series debut.
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S.H.I.E.L.D scores over 3m
Channel 4’s superhero drama Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D set off with an audience of more than 3m on Friday - as the final episode of The IT Crowd drew 1.5m.
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Strictly outsteps The X Factor
Strictly Come Dancing waltzed off with 1.3m more viewers than The X Factor on Saturday - as Atlantis failed to match the launch of Merlin.
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Trevor McDonald prison doc locks up 4m
Trevor McDonald’s trip to the Rockville Correctional Facility for ITV locked up an audience of almost 4m on Thursday – around 1m less than his previous Death Row doc.
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Pat & Cabbage outsmarted by BBC2's dogs
The Wonder of Dogs bounded into action for BBC2 on Thursday, as its 2.7m viewers fended off competition from ITV comedy Pat & Cabbage.
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Gogglebox audience doubles for C4
Gogglebox returned for a second run for Channel 4 on Wednesday with an audience almost twice the size of the series one opener.
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Doc Martin treats over 7.5m
Doc Martin recovered from last week’s series low with 7.6m on Monday, as Channel 4’s Fried Chicken Shop continued to serve up a solid audience.
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Attenborough’s Rise of Animals draws 2.1m
David Attenborough’s new BBC2 two-parter Rise of the Animals was unable to rouse a big enough audience to beat Channel 4 at 9pm on Friday.
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The X Factor's final auditions draw 8.8m
The final closed-doors audition round of The X Factor was watched by the show’s second lowest audience of the series on Saturday.
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Downton Abbey smashes series launch record
Downton Abbey returned for a fourth series with 9.5m viewers on Sunday – the Julian Fellowes drama’s best overnight series launch to date.
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Father Figure opens with 1.4m
Jason Byrne comedy Father Figure failed to make a big impression on Wednesday night for BBC1 – as Whitechapel stooped to a new low.
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Bake Off blasts Champions League competition
The Great British Bake Off continued its imperious form on Tuesday night - topping ITV’s first major Champions League match of the season.
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Fried Chicken Shop fails to deliver
The Fried Chicken Shop rustled up an audience of 1.4m on Monday – some 30% down on the documentary’s Cutting Edge debut in February.
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Surprise Surprise back with a bang
Surprise Surprise pulled in a record high audience for ITV on Sunday – as the finale of Vera murdered BBC1’s What Remains.