Big Gay Wedding gathers 1.1m for BBC1

BBC1’s one-off film with Tom Allen marking the 10-year anniversary of same-sex marriage gathered a crowd of 1.1m.  

The show was well below the channel’s 2.7m (20.3)% slot average but broadly on par with celebrity-fronted documentaries on the channel such as Joe Swash: Teens in Care which informed 1.3m (10%) in July last year on a Tuesday. It also fared just below Joe Wicks: Facing my Childhood which aired in May 2022 to 1.4m (9.6%).  

On a night of new programmes across the PSBs with the exception of Channel 4, ITV1 crime drama series Professor T returned for a third series to a slot-winning audience of 2.3m (19.6%), having last aired in July 2021.  

The latest instalment of the Ben Miller-fronted drama fell shy of the 2.8m (16.7%) that tuned into the previous series, which aired in a Sunday slot. It did however fall ahead of the 2.1m (15.9%) slot average according to Barb data from Overnights.tv.  

The full six-part run of the third series is now available as a boxset on ITVX.  

Meanwhile, the sixth series of BBC2’s Surgeons: At the Edge of Life launched with a steady 1.6m (13.4%), directly on par with its previous series and ahead on the 10% share. The medical series landed well ahead of the channel’s 651,000 (4.9%) slot average, and surpassed BBC1 in the evening ratings.  

On Channel 5, the broadcaster was shining a light on The 1980s Supermarket. That show picked up 842,000 (7.1%) following the previous series which focussed on the 1970s.  

The 1980s Supermarket surpassed a Christmas special which brought in 820,000 (7%) but was unable to match the 1.1m (8.8%) debut of the 1970s Supermarket for the channel. It still remained ahead of the 788,000 (5.9%) slot average.  

Channel 4 was the only PSB not to launch a new episode at 9pm, with an episode of Grand Designs being watched by 763,000 (6.5%), while on E4 the third episode of its social experiment format The Underdog: Josh Must Win continued with 141,000 (1.2%) below the 311,000 (2.3%) slot average.