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Feeds
Dancing On Ice pulled in its highest audience of the series last night as a peak of over 10.5 million viewers tuned in.
The fourth performances show averaged 9.59m (35.7%) between 6.55pm and 8.30pm, a rise of 1.3m week-on-week. The later results show, in which GMTV presenter Michael Underwood was voted off, took 7.87m (30.5%).
Between the two shows, a new episode of Wild At Heart drew an impressive 7.74m (28.7%).
BBC One held a solid audience of around 6 million during primetime, meanwhile. Antiques Roadshow had 6.3m (23.7%) opposite Ice in the 7pm hour, then a new Lark Rise To Candleford kept 6.01m (21.8%). At 9pm, Richard Attenborough documentary Charles Darwin and the Tree Of Life - tracing the work of the groundbreaking evolutionist - managed 6.02m (22.9%).
BBC Two's The Best Of Top Gear appealed to 2.17m (7.9%) in the 8pm hour, while on Channel 4, a screening of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen averaged 1.16m (4.3%) over 125 minutes. Five's Ice Road Truckers put in 885k (3.2%).
At 9pm, 1.15m (5.7%) decided to Explore with BBC Two, while Five movie Exit Wounds held on to 1.3m (5.8%) until 11.05pm.
ITV1 claimed first place in primetime with an average share of 29.1% to BBC One's 22.9%. BBC Two was third with 6.4%, followed by Channel 4 with 4.4% (+1: 0.5%) and Five with 4.5%.
BBC Three's screening of the first Shrek movie had 907k (3.6%) between 7.35pm and 9pm, then episode two of Being Human took 737k (3.1%), a fall of around 160k on last week's premiere.
ITV2's top audience came for Supernatural, seen by 463k (1.9%) in the 9pm hour. A further 198k (1.2%) watched on ITV2+1.
Ratings data supplied by Attentional
