MasterChef was on top of the ratings pile outside soaps on Thursday evening, overnight data reveals.
The BBC One cooking challenge was seen by an average 4.47 million (21.0%) at 8pm, followed by The Truth About Sugar with 3.69m (18.2%) at 9pm. Question Time gathered 2.55m (25.9%) at 10.35pm.
BBC Two's Stargazing Live appealed to 1.87m (8.8%) at 8pm, while Banished continued with 2.28m (11.3%) at 9pm.
On ITV, Tonight: The Food We Eat attracted 2.46m (12.2%) at 7.30pm (133,000/0.6% on +1), followed by Double Decker Driving School with 2.11m (8.8%) at 8.30pm (155k/0.8%) and The Triplets Are Coming with 1.72m (8.6%) at 9pm (173k/1.2%).
Channel 4's Supervet interested 1.37m (6.4%) at 8pm (284k/1.4%), while Trevor Phillips's Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True fascinated 1.44m (7.5%) at 9pm (255k/1.9%).
On Channel 5, Britain's Worst Crimes was seen by 735k (3.4%) at 8pm, followed by Holiday Love Rats Exposed with 708k (3.5%) at 9pm.
E4's latest episode of The Big Bang Theory amused 1.14m (5.4%) at 8.30pm (302k/1.5%), while Brooklyn Nine-Nine tickled 491k (2.4%) at 9pm (136k/0.8%).
On ITV2, Celebrity Juice entertained 782k (5.1%) at 10pm. Sky1's Arrow continued with 347k (1.6%) at 8pm, while Sky Atlantic's Fortitude brought in 335k (1.7%) at 9pm.
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 4:32 pm