Wendy Richard film draws 4.6m

BBC One's Wendy Richard: To Tell You The Truth pulled in 4.62m (20.8%) last night at 8pm, according to overnight viewing figures.

The show, filmed before her death last month, followed Richard and her husband John as she went through a course of chemotherapy.

BBC One audience figures then dropped to 3.62m (16%) during the 8.30pm screening of Traffic Cops. The channel came top in the 9pm hour, drawing 3.69m (16.8%) with The Hottest Place On Earth.

The last episode of BBC Two's Jimmy Doherty In Darwin's Garden took 1.57m (7%) at 8pm, while the final instalment of Darwin's Dangerous Idea managed 1.47m (6.7%).

Over on ITV1, 4.37m (19.5%) tuned in for the latest trip to The Bill at 8pm. 3.55m (16.1%) stayed with the channel for the final part of Cops With Cameras.

The third and final film in Channel 4's Red Riding trilogy logged 1.69m (8.5%) at 9pm, a drop of 760k from the first episode. Earlier, at 8pm, Ten Years Younger: The Challenge put in 2.18m (9.8%).

Five's coverage of Aalborg's game against Manchester City averaged 2.15m (10.2%) between 7.30pm and 11pm.

Overall, BBC One came out on top in primetime with an average share of 22.2% to ITV1's 17.8%. Five was third with 8.9%, followed by Channel 4 with 7.6% (+1: 0.6%) and BBC Two with 6.1%.

Elsewhere, the new episode of Skins performed well for E4, averaging 685k (4.4%) during the 10pm hour. It beat the first episode of new chat show The Justin Lee Collins Show, which took 328k (2%) for ITV2.

605k (3%) tuned in to ITV2 at 9pm for the final episode of Paris Hilton's British Best Friend.

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Ratings data supplied by Attentional