Call the Midwife was down from last year's launch but still topped the ratings on Sunday, overnight data reveals.
The BBC One period drama attracted an average audience of 8.31 million viewers (32.8%) at 8pm, down from last year's overnight score of 9.61m and 2013's 9.32m.
Earlier, Countryfile appealed to 7.01m (32.3%) at 6.30pm, followed by Still Open All Hours with 7.12m (30.4%) at 7.30pm. Last Tango in Halifax continued with 6.24m (25.5%) at 9pm, while Match of the Day 2 scored 2.74m (21.7%) at 10.35pm.
BBC Two's Snooker Masters final was seen by 1.88m (7.9%) at 7pm, followed by repeats of Britain's Flying Past with 962,000 (3.9%) at 9pm and QI with 965k (5.3%) at 10pm.
On ITV, Get Your Act Together opened with 2.57m (11.5%) at 6.45pm (156k/0.6% on +1), while the final ever Foyle's War gathered 3.54m (14.2%) at 9pm (490k/2.4%).
Channel 4's Secret Agent with Phil Spencer interested 981k (4.3%) at 7pm (197k/0.8%), followed by The Hotel with 1.30m (5.1%) at 8pm (99k/0.4%) and Walking the Nile with 1.73m (7.0%) at 9pm (263k/1.6%).
On Channel 5, My Super Ex-Girlfriend brought in 809k (3.4%) at 7pm (127k/0.5%). Celebrity Big Brother continued with 2.79m (11.4%) at 9pm (425k/2.6%), while Amanda Seyfried's Gone was seen by 922k (7.2%) at 10pm (121k/1.8%).
BBC Three's repeat of The Voice attracted 669k (2.7%) at 7.30pm.
