'New Tricks' improves to 7.1 million on BBC One
New Tricks slightly improved on last week's numbers to help BBC One win primetime last night (September 10), according to overnight data.
The 9pm drama earned 7.09m (29.2%), following Our Greatest Team: Athletes' Parade (3.08m/12.7%).
On ITV1, Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs continued with 4.53m (18.3%) from 8pm with a further 246k (1%) on timeshift. Later on, Leaving earned 3.71m (14.4%) from 9pm (+1: 245k/1.4%).
BBC Two showed University Challenge (2.5m/10.6%), Lorraine's Fast, Fresh and Easy Food (1.61m/6.6%) and Horizon (841k/3.5%).
On Channel 4, 999: What's Your Emergency? was seen by 2.07m (8.5%) and 400k (2.3%) on +1. 9/11: The Miracle Survivor followed with 1.7m (10%) from 10pm (+1: 216k/2.3%). Earlier, Dispatches and Food Unwrapped managed 918k (3.9%) and 1.57m (6.5%) respectively.
Channel 5's Cowboy Builders was caught by 867k (3.6%) from 9pm (+1: 104k/0.6%). Frontline Police aired earlier to 949k (4%).
Overall, BBC One edged primetime with 22.7% ahead of ITV1's 22.2% (+1: 0.9%). Channel 4 came third with 6.5% (+1: 0.8%) beating BBC Two's 5.6% and Channel 5's 3.1% (+1: 0.2%).
On the multichannels, Revenge continued on E4 with 504k (2.1%) and 116k (0.7%) on timeshift.
