BBC One's General Election coverage was the most watched programme outside of soaps on Thursday (May 7), according to overnight data.
The first four hours of results brought in 4.35m (38.5%) for the channel from 10pm. Earlier, Watchdog at 30 was seen by 2.89m (14.7%) and Shark gathered 3.55m (17.3%) at 9pm.
ITV's Election Night coverage struggled to compete with an average of 897k (7.9%) tuning in between 10pm and 2am.
Earlier, Tonight interested 2.50m (13.9%) at 7.30pm (214k/1.1% on +1), while You've Been Framed! amused 1.69m (8.5%) at 8.30pm (68k/0.3%). Fraud Squad continued with 1.79m (8.7%) at 9pm (111k/0.6%).
Channel 4's Alternative Election Night was watched by 1.11m (8.5%) from 9pm, after The World's Most Extreme Railways garnered 960k (4.9%) at 8pm (179k/0.3%).
On BBC Two, Coast Australia interested 1.05m (5.0%) at 7pm, before Inside the Factory: How Our Favourite Foods Are Made was seen by 2.16m (10.9%), and The Game gathered 1.23m (6.0%) at 9pm. W1A followed with 730k (3.8%) at 10pm.
Channel 5's The Last Days of Jesus Christ attracted 493k (2.5%) at 8pm (40k/0.2%), while The Hotel Inspector reached 1.16m (5.7%) at 9pm (69k/0.4%). Stephen King's Bag of Bones was watched by 200k (1.5%) at 10pm (11k/0.1%).
ITV2's Celebrity Juice tickled 697k (3.6%) at 10pm, while Mad Men brought in 41k (0.2%) for Sky Atlantic in the same timeslot.
Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 4:04 pm