
More than 6m viewers saw Sir David Attenborough's last major television series appearance with the end of Life in Cold Blood on Monday.
The show attracted 6.1m viewers, or a 25.9% share, from 9pm - its best turnout since 6.7m (28%) for the opening episode. Sir David has said he will from now on make one-off documentaries instead of his trademark natural history series.
Across the series Life in Cold Blood notched up a respectable average of 5.9m (24.8%) which is 400,000 more than the slot's average for last year.
Its strength has not helped ITV1's The Palace which also came to a close on Monday, in the same slot, with 3.3m (14%) viewers. The average audience for the beleaguered series was just 3.3m (14%) - well short of the channel's 5.7m (24.4%) slot performance in 2007.
Channel 4 put in a decent performance at 9pm with Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe. It reached 1.9m (7.8%) which was 200,000 more than the slot average.
Five's first outing of Breaking into Tesco beat the channel's usual performance in the slot by 200,000 with 1.4m (5.9%) viewers at 9pm while, on BBC Two, 1.6m (6.6%) watched Lady Windermere's Fan from 8.30pm.



