Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway returns to top ratings
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:33 pmAnt & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway returned with big ratings on Saturday night (February 23), pulling in the biggest audience of the evening for the launch episode of the 10th series.
After a three-year hiatus, the TV double act brought back their hit entertainment format and beat off competition from BBC One's Let's Dance For Comic Relief in the overnight ratings.
Saturday Night Takeaway had an average audience of 6.45 million for ITV1 from 7pm and including +1 averaged over 7 million.
Let's Dance pulled in 5.05 million at the same time on BBC One.
Take Me Out had a good evening on ITV with an average of 4.1 million tuning in.
Meanwhile, BBC One pulled in 4.98 million for Casualty and 4.74 million for a repeat of Mrs Brown's Boys.
Dad's Army remains popular on BBC Two and attracted 1.82 million in the early evening, while 0.8 million tuned in for the movie Terminator Salvation on Channel 4.
Channel 5's NCIS and Law and Order: Criminal Intent remained popular with audiences of 1.06 and 1.05 million.
Elsewhere, BBC Four's Spiral attracted 356K at 9pm.
Don't ask me what happened to the viewing figures for Thursday and Friday. They were never published and no reason was given why.
