Great British Bake Off continues strong ratings with 6.8m

The Great British Bake Off continued with strong ratings on Wednesday, according to overnight figures.



BBC One's competition dipped by around 300,000 viewers from last week's launch, but still easily topped the night with 6.87 million (31.7%) at 8pm.

Later, Clare Balding's Operation Wild dropped nearly 700k to 3.02m (15.0%) at 9pm.

On BBC Two, The World's War continued with 896k (4.8%) at 9.30pm. Live athletics coverage averaged 1.86m (11.2%) from 4.45pm.

ITV's 100-Year-Old Drivers appealed to 3.42m (15.7%) at 8pm (308k/1.5% on +1), followed by Secrets from the Clink with 1.93m (9.6%) at 9pm (113k/0.7%).

On Channel 4, Double Your House for Half the Money interested 706k (3.3%) at 8pm (316k/1.6%), while One Born Every Minute took in 1.44m (7.1%) at 9pm (263k/1.7%). The Mimic amused 423k (2.5%) at 10pm.

Channel 5's Grand Theft Auto: UK gathered 1.27m (6.3%) at 9pm (114k/0.7%), followed by the latest Big Brother with 1.33m (8.4%) at 10pm.

BBC Three's Family Guy topped the multichannels with 907k (9.9%) at 11.30pm.