Hustle nabbed 4.78m viewers last night for BBC One, landing a 19.7% audience share.
It just pipped ITV1's Law and Order: UK, which scored 4.7m (19.4%) in the same 9pm slot, showing remarkable consistency since its January return.
The police procedural added an extra 295k (1.5%) on +1, while earlier on the commercial broadcaster Safari Vet School took 2.59m (10.9%). An additional 102k (0.4%) caught up on timeshift.
On BBC One, Frank Skinner's Room 101 logged 3.44m (13.8%), and The Graham Norton Show entertained 3.77m (24.4%).
Two instalments of Mastermind on BBC Two quizzed 2.01m (8.4%) and 1.82m (7.3%) from 8pm, and in the 9pm hour Cutty Sark: National Treasure educated 1.87m (7.7%) on British history.
Channel 5 suffered without Celebrity Big Brother. World's Toughest Trucker took its usual 1.08m (4.4%), but The Last of the Mohicans was screened to just 847k (4.1%)
New Girl appealed to 1.01m (4%) on Channel 4 (+1: 155k, 0.6%), followed by The Million Pound Drop Live on 2.13m (9.2%). A further 205k (1.2%) chose to watch the show an hour later.
ITV1 narrowly beat BBC One's audience share by 23.2% to 21.5%. BBC Two drummed up 6.9%, and Channel 4 and Channel 5 brought in 6.1% and 3.9% respectively.
Please note that weekend viewing figures are published much later than in midweek due to factors outside of my control.
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