12.6 million watch Murray's Wimbledon win

BBC One's coverage of Andy Murray's fourth round Wimbledon win made an impressive impact on last night's ratings, according to the latest figures.

The extended coverage, which followed Murray's victory over Stanislas Wawrinka, averaged 8.5m (38.6%) between 7pm and 10.45pm, making the channel comfortably top of the ratings in primetime. The audience steadily increased throughout, peaking with 12.62m (53.5%) at 10.35pm.

Both BBC One and BBC Two experienced some schedule changes due to the match coverage. Panorama made the move to BBC Two, putting in 940k (4%) between 8.30pm and 9pm. Likewise, Crimewatch experienced a switch, grabbing 2.22m (9.3%) during the 9pm hour in its new home. The planned episode of BBC Two's Supersizers was bumped from the schedules.

Over on ITV1, a half-hour visit to Airline interested 2.35m (10.7%) at 8pm, and Real Crime, focusing on murdered teenager Sally Anne Bowman, put in 2.96m (12.4%) at 9pm.

Madonna And Mercy: What Really Happened? managed a lowly 600k (2.6%) for Channel 4 during the 8pm hour. A new series, Inside Nature's Giants followed, pulling in 1.03m (4.3%). The Big Brother highlights show attracted a disappointing 1.37m (6.6%) at 10pm, down around 1.57m from last year's equivalent episode and representing a decline of 53% year-on-year.

Five's Fifth Gear was seen by 592k (2.6%) at 8pm, then 824k (3.4%) tuned in for Build A New Life In The Country during the 9pm hour.

Overall, BBC One dominated primetime with an average share of 38.7% to ITV1's 18.3%. BBC Two was third with 9.5%, followed by Channel 4 with 4% (+1: 0.5%) and Five's 2.4%.

Elsewhere, E4's 90210 finale had 274k (1.2%) at 9pm, beating the final part of BBC Four's The Secret Life Of The Airport, which took 265k (1.3%) and Britain's Next Top Model, which pulled in 226k (1%) for Living.

BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional