'The Fades' begins brightly for BBC Three

BBC Three's The Fades started brightly last night, the latest overnight data has revealed.

Scouting Book For Boys writer Jack Thorne's six-part horror drama, starring Iain De Caestecker and Lily Loveless, premiered with 732k (3.1%) in the 9pm hour.

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds was the most-watched multichannel broadcast, following The Fades with 746k (5.4%) for the digital channel.

Elsewhere, a new episode of ITV1's Midsomer Murders starring Neil Dudgeon educated 5.01m (21.3%) and 259k on +1.

Meanwhile, Planet Dinosaur logged 3.49m (15%) for BBC One at 8.30pm, then Barry Gibb's Who Do You Think You Are? episode mustered 3.95m (16.5%).

Channel 4's Location, Location, Location leapt to 2.63m (11.4%) at 8pm (+1: 200k). Grand Designs continued with 2.61m (10.9%) at 9pm (+1: 308k).

Jack Whitehall's Fresh Meat, penned by Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, managed a respectable 1.47m (8.4%) for its first episode at 10pm (+1: 215k).

Emergency Bikers dipped to 1.03m (4.5%) for Channel 5 at 8pm, before Law & Order: Criminal Intent lured 818k (3.4%).

Big Brother fetched 1.36m (7.8%) in the 10pm hour, before Big Brother's Bit on the Side notched up 170k (1.8%) for 5*.

Over on BBC Two, Escape To The Country (7pm) and Natural World (8pm) averaged 1.47m (6.9%) and 1.15m (5%), after which a special edition of Dragons' Den (9pm) interested 1.26m (5.3%).

Overall, ITV1 led primetime with 21.9% (+1: 1%), ahead of BBC One's 17.6%, Channel 4's 8.7% (+1: 0.9%), BBC Two's 5.6%, and Channel 5's 4.2%.

BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional