Latest 'Dancing On Ice' draws 9.6m

Dancing On Ice pulled in its highest audience of the series last night as a peak of over 10.5 million viewers tuned in.

The fourth performances show averaged 9.59m (35.7%) between 6.55pm and 8.30pm, a rise of 1.3m week-on-week. The later results show, in which GMTV presenter Michael Underwood was voted off, took 7.87m (30.5%).

Between the two shows, a new episode of Wild At Heart drew an impressive 7.74m (28.7%).

BBC One held a solid audience of around 6 million during primetime, meanwhile. Antiques Roadshow had 6.3m (23.7%) opposite Ice in the 7pm hour, then a new Lark Rise To Candleford kept 6.01m (21.8%). At 9pm, Richard Attenborough documentary Charles Darwin and the Tree Of Life - tracing the work of the groundbreaking evolutionist - managed 6.02m (22.9%).

BBC Two's The Best Of Top Gear appealed to 2.17m (7.9%) in the 8pm hour, while on Channel 4, a screening of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen averaged 1.16m (4.3%) over 125 minutes. Five's Ice Road Truckers put in 885k (3.2%).

At 9pm, 1.15m (5.7%) decided to Explore with BBC Two, while Five movie Exit Wounds held on to 1.3m (5.8%) until 11.05pm.

ITV1 claimed first place in primetime with an average share of 29.1% to BBC One's 22.9%. BBC Two was third with 6.4%, followed by Channel 4 with 4.4% (+1: 0.5%) and Five with 4.5%.

A new episode of Lost pulled in 984k (4.1%) for Sky1 in the 9pm hour, then the special Ross Kemp: Return To Afghanistan brought in 943k (5.5%).

BBC Three's screening of the first Shrek movie had 907k (3.6%) between 7.35pm and 9pm, then episode two of Being Human took 737k (3.1%), a fall of around 160k on last week's premiere.

ITV2's top audience came for Supernatural, seen by 463k (1.9%) in the 9pm hour. A further 198k (1.2%) watched on ITV2+1.

Ratings data supplied by Attentional