E4's 'Misfits' opens to 447,000

Misfits made an encouraging start for E4 last night, early viewing figures show.

The opening episode of the comedy drama, which follows teens with superpowers, drew 447k (2.8%) during the 10pm hour, with a further 166k (1.8%) tuning in on timeshift.

Also on the multichannel stations, Peter Andre: The Next Chapter put in 1.15m (5.3%) for ITV2 at 9pm, beating Sky1's latest Fringe episode, which had 562k (2.6%).

Elsewhere at 9pm, the fourth instalment of ITV1's Collision logged a respectable 6.51m (27.9%), 3.96m (16.9%) watched Crimewatch on BBC One, and Octomom: Me And My 14 Kids had 1.7m (7.3%) for Channel 4.

Defying Gravity managed 670k (2.8%) for BBC Two and Lethal Weapon averaged 1.2m (6.4%) for Five between 9pm and 11.30pm.

BBC One's Traffic Cops won the 8pm hour, bringing in 3.39m (14.4%). Its nearest rival, Channel 4's River Cottage, managed 2.71m (11.5%). The Restaurant logged 1.76m (7.5%) for BBC Two, and Five's Time Bomb Tunnel: Megastructures had 793k (3.4%).

Overall, ITV1 came top during primetime with an average share of 25.4% to BBC One's 20.9%. Channel 4 was third with 7.1% (+1: 0.9%), followed by BBC Two with 4.4% and Five's 4.2%.

BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional