The ITV Leaders' Debate brought in big numbers for the channel, according to overnight figures for Thursday (April 2).
The seven-way debate brought in 6.71m (30.0%) for ITV between 8pm and 10pm, with a further 273,000 (1.4%) tuning in on ITV+1.
The debate attracted almost three times the number of viewers that David Cameron and Ed Miliband's Channel 4 head-to-head did last week.
BBC One's MasterChef dipped to 3.93m (17.6%) for its latest episode at 8pm, while The Truth About Fat interested 2.96m (13.3%) at 9pm. Question Time gathered 2.67m (22.7%) at 10.45pm.
On BBC Two, Coast Australia was seen by 1.35m (6.1%), before Banished continued with 1.72m (7.7%) at 9pm, and Inside No. 9 entertained 1.10m (5.7%) at 10pm.
Channel 4's The Supervet aired to 1.25m (5.6%) at 8pm (227k/1.0% on +1), while Breaking Dawn - Part 2 brought in 950k (5.0%) at 9pm (270k/2.1%).
Over on Channel 5, Caught on Camera thrilled 599k (2.7%) at 8pm (44k/0.2%). Later, Glasgow's Killing Streets interested 642k (2.9%) at 9pm (72k/0.4%), and The Mentalist continued with 515k (2.9%) at 10pm (43k/0.4%).
E4's latest episode of The Big Bang Theory amused 890k (3.8%) at 8.30pm (211k/0.9%), while Brooklyn Nine-Nine tickled 310k (1.4%) at 9pm (132k/0.7%).
On ITV2, Celebrity Juice entertained 832k (4.6%) at 10pm. Sky1's Arrow continued with 227k (1.0%) at 8pm, while Sky Atlantic's Fortitude brought in 284k (1.3%) at 9pm.
