Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway has continued its surprise ratings rejuvenation, with its latest episode smashing the 7 million mark.
Some 7.33m, a 31.7% audience share, watched the fifth edition of the revived format airing its first run in four years, adding a further 421,000 on +1.
Setting a new high for its tenth series, Saturday Night Takeaway was easily the best-rated broadcast of yesterday (March 23), having fallen short of the Six Nations rugby finale last week.
Takeaway, screened at 7pm, also geared up ITV for its first Saturday night win over BBC One of 2013, with The Cube logging 4.69m (20.3%) at 8.15pm (+1: 377k), and The Jonathan Ross Show entertaining 2.62m (12.4%) from 9.15pm (+1: 266k).
Over on BBC One, Pointless and Lottery show Who Dares Wins recorded identical figures of 4.76m between 7pm and 8.50pm, then the audience rose to 5.16m (22.4%) for Casualty, before a Mrs Brown's Boys repeat amused 4.91m (22.7%).
Classic Foyle's War pulled in a huge 1.51m (7.5%) for digital channel ITV3 between 9pm and 11pm, meaning the drama channel elevated itself into third place behind ITV and BBC One.
Meanwhile, Dad's Army grabbed 1.7m (7.2%) for BBC Two, Grand Designs had 944k (4.1%) for Channel 4 (+1: 194k), and Law & Order: SVU had 961k (4.6%).
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:37 pm