Clare Balding's Operation Wild attracts 3.7m on Wednesady

Clare Balding's new BBC One series attracted over 3 million viewers on Wednesday, overnight data reveals.



Operation Wild brought in 3.70m (18.9%) at 9pm. Earlier, The Sheriffs Are Coming appealed to 3.37m (19.4%) at 7pm.

The Great British Bake Off scored record ratings for its BBC One debut with 7.18m (34.6%) at 8pm.

On BBC Two, The Stuarts attracted 1.01m (4.9%) at 8pm, followed by The World's War with 1.04m (5.3%) at 9pm and Backchat with Jack Whitehall with 516,000 (3.1%) at 10pm.

ITV's All Star Mr & Mrs entertained 2.84m (13.7%) at 8pm (277k/1.4% on +1), while Secrets from the Clink was seen by 2.27m (11.6%) at 9pm (192k/1.3%).

On Channel 4, Double Your House for Half the Money interested 1.05m (5.1%) at 8pm (291k/1.5%), while One Born Every Minute attracted 1.48m (7.5%) at 9pm (182k/1.2%). The Mimic amused 392k (2.3%) at 10pm.

Channel 5's Emergency Bikers appealed to 693k (3.3%) at 8pm, followed by World's Worst Storms with 1.04m (5.3%) at 9pm and Big Brother with 1.19m (7.7%) at 10pm.

BBC Three's showing of Raiders of the Lost Ark topped the multichannels with 1.16m (6.6%) at 9pm.