The 2015 Pride of Britain Awards topped the ratings on Thursday night outside of soaps, but it was down from last year.
The annual charity event hosted by Carol Vorderman had an average overnight audience of 4.02 million (19.7%) at 8pm (182,000/1.0%), down around 500k from 2014's awards.
On BBC One, Eat Well for Less appealed to 3.92m (19.6%) at 8pm, followed by Anita Rani's Who Do You Think You Are? with 3.73m (17.9%) at 9pm. Question Time brought in 2.28m (22.6%) at 10.35pm.
BBC Two's World's Weirdest Events fascinated 1.45m (7.3%) at 8pm. Cradle to Grave amused 1.37m (6.5%) at 9pm, followed by Boy Meets World with 881k (4.3%) at 9.30pm and Mock the Week with 1.19m (7.1%) at 10pm.
On Channel 4, Amazing Spaces wowed 1.36m (6.8%) at 8pm (227k/1.1%), while Hunted continued with 1.05m (5.1%) at 9pm (123k/0.8%). First Dates made 953k (6.5%) squirm at 10pm.
Channel 5's Building the London Underground interested 736k (3.7%) at 8pm, followed by Chris Tarrant's new series Extreme Railway Journeys with 750k (3.6%) at 9pm.