Source: telegraph.co.uk
Eastenders won the bank holiday battle of the soaps, narrowly beating ITV1’s Coronation Street.
The BBC1 show pulled in 9.6 million viewers at 8pm – a 39.2% market share – as the search for the killer of Archie Mitchell intensified. That made it the most popular programme screened yesterday.
The storyline is set to run until February, when the culprit is expected to be revealed during a landmark show to mark the soap’s 25th anniversary.
Coronation Street was watched by 9.2 million people at 7:30pm – a 39.6% share – as the fallout from Sally’s revelation that she has cancer continued to have repercussions for Kevin and Molly.
The second episode of the two-part show, at 8.30pm, won an audience of 8.8 million, a 35.1% share, giving ITV1 a primetime winner in those slots.
Emmerdale, which was watched by 6.5 million at 7pm (a 28.9% share) also delivered for ITV. It beat BBC1’s Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death repeat, which received 5.4 million viewers (a 24% share).
However, the rest of the bank holiday schedule was dominated by BBC1.
The first part of BBC1’s star-studded remake of The Day of the Triffids, which featured actors including Dougray Scott and Joely Richardson, ensured that the channel won the primetime battle. The 90-minute show averaged 6.1 million viewers, a 26.9% share.
It comfortably outperformed ITV’s drama about Quentin Crisp, An Englishman in New York, starring John Hurt, which was screened at the same time. The follow-up to 1975’s The Naked Civil Servant won 2.2 million viewers, a 9.7% audience share.
The repeat of Sunday’s Top Gear special, filmed in Bolivia, on BBC2 won 2.4 million viewers, a 9.9% share.
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