GB News eats Sky News for breakfast

The fledgling channel’s debut breakfast show made an encouraging start – edging out competition from Sky News which drew 58,000 (1.9%) over the same three-hour period.

Hosted by former BBC presenter Nana Akua, ex-Sky News’ Darren McCaffrey and broadcaster Kirsty Gallacher, the Great British Breakfast peaked just after 8am with 140,000 (3.3%).

Men accounted for 70% of the audience, with almost two-thirds of viewers (62%) from the ABC1 demographic.

The performance of the breakfast show helped the channel make a solid start to its first full day on air, ending only just short of Sky News over the 18-hours from 6am.

GB News informed 74,000 (0.9%), just shy of Sky News’ 78,000 (0.9%). BBC News was some way out in front with 138,000 (1.7%), according to Barb data provided by overnights.tv.

The most-watched show of the day on GB News was the second edition of Andrew Neil, which drew 150,000 (0.9%) across the hour from 8pm, falling from Sunday’s opening 262,000 (1.7%).

Michelle Dewberry’s debut Dewbs & Co opend its account with 135,000 (0.9%) from 6pm-8pm.

Primetime PSB

The Euro 2020 clash between Scotland and Czech Republic was the second most-watched game of the tournament with 5.8m (33.7%) from 7:30pm – 10:15pm. It was behind England’s opening match (7.6m / 67%) but some way ahead of Sunday’s Wales v Switzerland (3.3m / 46.2%) on Saturday at 1:15pm. All three games aired on BBC1.

At 9pm, Channel 5 launched Great British Gardens with Carol Klein to 900,000 (4.9%) in line with the 950,000 (5.5%) who watched the opener to Gardening with Carol Klein on a Thursday at 7pm in February.

Opposite on BBC2, Peter Taylor: Ireland After Partition informed 630,000 (3.4%), just shy of The Road to Partition’s 710,000 (4.7%) in a Thursday 9pm slot in May.