Ratings: 'Endeavour' concludes with 4.89m viewers on Sunday

Endeavour has continued its strong showing in Sunday night's ratings, overnight data suggests.



The Inspector Morse prequel - featuring Shaun Evans as a younger Endeavour Morse - closed its first full series on ITV with 4.89m viewers, giving the channel a 21.3% audience share. A further 312.8k watched the show on ITV+1.

Stephen Mulhern's Catchphrase was seen by 3.6m at 7pm (+1: 209k), while Off Their Rockers followed with 3.56 million at 7.30pm (+1: 319.1k).

BBC One's Countryfile was the second highest-rated programme of primetime on Sunday, taking 4.88m viewers and a 25.8% audience share at 7pm.

Antiques Roadshow was seen by 4.48m (20% audience share) at 8pm, and Maxine Peake and John Simm's horror drama The Village picked up 4.13m (17.5%) at 9pm.

Channel 4's highest-rated programme during primetime was Peter Kay Live: The Tour That Didn't Tour - Tour at 9pm with 2.74m (13.1%). A further 547.8k tuned in for the comedian's O2 show later on Channel 4+1.

On Channel 5, Once Upon A Time was seen by 800.5k (3.5%) at 8pm (+1: 181k), followed by documentary The Truth About Travellers with 819k (3.5%) at 9pm (+1: 63.8k).

Meanwhile, BBC Two's coverage of the world championship snooker averaged 2.12m (9.8%) between 7pm and 10.15pm.

Chelsea's Premier League win over Manchester United was the highest rated programme across the multichannels, drawing 1.66m (13.6% audience share) to Sky Sports 1 from 3.30pm.

The channel's coverage of the Merseyside derby - in which Liverpool and Everton drew 0-0 - was seen by 1.15m (12.7% audience share) at 1pm.