The inaugural BBC Music Awards topped the ratings outside soaps on Thursday (December 11), overnight data reveals.
The awards ceremony brought in an average 3.94 million viewers (18.3%) at 8pm. In comparison, this year's Brit Awards attracted an overnight rating of 4.20m (18.4%) in February.
Later, Russell Brand and Nigel Farage's appearance on a heated edition of Question Time intrigued 3.40m (29.2%) at 10.35pm, up by over a million viewers from last week.
On BBC Two, MasterChef: The Professionals continued with 2.38m (11.1%) at 8pm, followed by the latest episode of The Fall with 2.08m (9.7%) at 9pm and Russell Howard's Good News with 1.17m (6.7%) at 10pm.
ITV's For the Love of Dogs appealed to 3.57m (16.4%) at 8.30pm (152,000/0.7% on +1). The second part of The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries was seen by 2.88m (14.1%) at 9pm (229k/1.6%).
On Channel 4, Amazing Spaces brought in 1.33m (6.2%) at 8pm (204k/0.9%), followed by 24 Hours in A&E with 1.76m (8.2%) at 9pm (223k/1.4%). Babylon fell to a new low of 326k (2.1%) at 10pm.
Channel 5's The Railway gathered 640k (3.0%) at 8pm, followed by Britain's Bloodiest Dynasties with 564k (2.6%) at 9pm (104k/0.7%).
On E4, The Big Bang Theory amused 1.30m (6.0%) at 8.30pm (348k/1.6%).
