'Partners in Crime' debuts with 6.5m on Sunday night

David Walliams and Jessica Raine's Partners in Crime debuted to big ratings, according to overnight figures for Sunday (July 26).



The new BBC One series brought in 6.46m viewers and a 29% audience share at 9pm. Earlier, Countryfile continued with 6.19m (31.7%) at 7pm, while Fake or Fortune? interested 4.94m (22.9%) at 8pm.

BBC Two's Dragon's Den averaged 2.40m (11.2%) at 8pm, and Odyssey gathered 990k (4.4%) at 9pm.

Meet the Penguins was watched by 1.42m (7.4%) on ITV at 7pm (92k/0.4% on +1), before Surprise Surprise warmed the hearts of 3.25m (15.2%) at 8pm (168k/0.8% on +1), and Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure concluded with 3.09m (13.8%) at 9pm (325k/2.1%).

Over on Channel 4, the penultimate episode of Humans dipped to 1.86m (8.3%) at 9pm, with a further 487,000 (3.2%) tuning in an hour later on +1.

Channel 5's Police Interceptors: Unleashed thrilled 569k (2.7%) at 8pm (71k/0.3%), while Resident Evil: Retribution kept 536k (2.7%) glued to their screens from 9pm (125k/1.0%).

Meanwhile, BBC Three's film selection, Meet the Fockers, proved popular with 789k (4.1%) at 9pm.