Healthy start for ITV fire doc

Mentorn Media’s three parter following the capital’s firefighters narrowly won the 9pm slot and was broadly in line with ITV’s slot average for the past 12 months.

The doc, which included first-hand accounts of the Grenfell Tower disaster, beat Raw Cut’s The Detectives: Inside the Major Crimes Teams which opened with 2.7m (15%) in the same slot in April.

Inside the London Fire Brigade was just ahead of the fourth episode in the latest run of Wall To Wall’s Who Do You Think You Are? which picked up 3.2m (17%).

The doc, which tracked the heritage of Citizen Khan star Adil Ray, was below the channel’s 4.1m (20.5%) slot average.

Meanwhile Jane Campion’s haunting BBC2 drama Top of the Lake: China Girl returned to BBC2 with 1.6m (8.6%).

The six-part second series could not match the show’s debut of 1.9m (10.5%) in a 9pm Saturday slot in June 2013. However it beat the channel’s 1.4m (7%) slot average.

Channel 5’s 90-minute doc Joanna Dennehy: Killing for Kicks was watched by 810,000 (4.6%) from 9pm-10.30pm.

The ITN Productions’ doc, which examined Dennehy’s two-week killing spree in which she killed three men, was below C5’s 1.1m (6%) slot average and Murdered By My Fiance which was watched by 910,000 (6.1%) in a 10pm slot in February.

Meanwhile C4’s coverage of the England v Portugal Women’s Euro 2017 match from 7.30pm-10pm was watched by 1.3m (7%).

A peak of 2m (10.8%) tuned in at 9pm to watch England secure a place in the quarter finals with a 2-1 victory.

The match was in line with the 1.4m (7.6%) who tuned in to watch England’s 6-0 victory over Scotland on 19^th July.

The second part of Princess Productions’ satirical news show, produced in association with satirical website The Daily Mash, fell from last week’s 800,000 (5%) launch.

The second instalment in Nish Kumar’s 10-part series remained below the channel’s 1m (6.1%) slot average, according to Barb data supplied by overnights.tv.