Latest 'Celebrity' pulls in 7.4m

I'm A Celebrity continued to pull in the punters last night as glamour girl Nicola McLean was voted off.

The latest episode drew an impressive 7.43m (29.4%) to ITV1 between 8.30pm and 10pm, easily outdoing the competition. BBC One's Holby City had a solid 5.5m (22.7%), then the third episode of Survivors managed 4.63m (18.2%) in the 9pm hour.

BBC Two's Natural World - this week looking at India's gharial crocodile - interested 2.04m (5.4%) at 8pm, while on Channel 4, a new series of Gok Wan's How To Look Good Naked started with 1.94m (8%). Five brought up the rear with 1.27m (5.2%) for the final episode of Special Forces Heroes.

Channel 4's documentary The Queen's Coronation: Behind Palace Doors, about a rift between Prince Philip and the Queen Mother, was seen by an impressive 2.49m (9.8%) in the 9pm hour (+1: 134k, 0.8%). BBC Two's Horizon was preferred by 1.59m (6.2%) and on Five, a new episode of CSI: Miami earned 1.94m (7.6%).

An hour-long Emmerdale had 6.79m (29.7%) for ITV1 in the 7pm hour, outranking the 6.62m (28.1%) for EastEnders at 7.30pm. In the half hour period of head-to-head, the BBC soap was on top of Emmerdale, which dropped off to 6.44m (27.3%). A repeat of EastEnders on BBC Three was the most-watched multichannel programme of the day, pulling in 1.08m (5.9%) at 10pm.

Hollyoaks logged 1.88m (8.7%) for Channel 4 at 6.30pm, then 764k (3.9%) for E4 at 7pm (+1: 236k, 1.1%). On Five, Neighbours had 1.42m (8.6%) and Home & Away had 1.05m (5.3%).

In the 10pm news battle, the BBC had 4.98m (24.1%) to ITV1's 3.17m (15.6%).

ITV1 was back up to first place in primetime with an average share of 25.1% (last week: 19.3%) to BBC One's 21.5% (24.8%). Channel 4 moved to third with 7.1% (6.4%), followed by BBC Two on 6.5% (7%) and Five on 6% (6.8%).

Sky Sports 1's coverage of Burnley taking on the Gunners in the Carling Cup brought in a strong 984k (4.5%) to Sky Sports 1 between 7.30pm and 10pm.

Sky1 was first among its competitor set for the 8pm hour with Stargate Atlantis, which drew 492k (2.3%). The latest episode of Prison Break was up at 10pm, pulling in 338k (2.1%) for the hour.

Ratings data supplied by Attentional