Graham Norton chats to 1.7m

Graham Norton's chatshow attracted a decent audience when it returned to BBC Two for a new series last night.

The Graham Norton Show drew 1.7m (7.6%) at 9pm, matched the opening audience for its last run, which began in November.

BBC One's New Tricks repeat won the hour with 4.7m (20.9%), while ITV1's Homes from Hell interested 3.4m (14.8%).

Five managed to draw 1.9m (8.2%) thanks to House, leaving Norton in fourth place.

On Channel 4, just 1m (4.6%) saw Cutting Edge documentary Sex, Lies and the Murder of Meredith Kercher.

BBC Four scored a surprise hit at 9pm with the beginning of Inside the Medieval Mind, a documentary for its Medieval Season. An audience of 644,000 (3.2%) saw the show - well above the channel's 2007 slot average of 200,000 (1.1%).