'Survivors' maintains solid audience

Survivors held on to a decent chunk of its initial audience last night as the show settled into its new Tuesday night home.

The post-apocalyptic drama, starring Julie Graham and Paterson Joseph, averaged 5.33m (22.2%) for BBC One in the 9pm hour. The figure is down by 1.1 million, however, on Sunday's impressive debut.

Survivors helped BBC One win the 9pm slot. On ITV1, coverage of the Champions League game between Villarreal and Manchester United averaged 4.73m (19.9%) between 7.30pm and 10pm. On digital, ITV4's simultaneous coverage of Arsenal vs Dynamo Kiev averaged 913k (4.4%).

Elsewhere at 9pm, CSI: Miami delivered a strong 2.22m (9.2%) for Five, and on BBC Two, Horizon interested 1.69m (7%). Channel 4 was last with 1.78m (7.4%) for documentary High Society's Favourite Gigolo.

At 8pm, BBC One led with 5.65m (23.4%) for Holby City. BBC Two's Natural World - this week looking at clever monkeys - picked up 2.17m (9%) and the finale of C4's fashion series Miss Naked Beauty pulled in 1.79m (7.4%). Five had 1.28m (5.3%) with Special Forces Heroes.

EastEnders notched up the day's best numbers, with 8.44m (37.2%) for BBC One and 805k (4.7%) for BBC Three. Emmerdale took second with 6.24m (29.1%), but was almost outdone by The One Show's impressive 5.81m (27.1%).

Hollyoaks drew 1.92m (9.1%) to Channel 4 at 6.30pm, then 733k (3.9%) to E4 at 7pm (+1: 69k, 0.3%). The second episode of Hollyoaks Later maintained a sizable 747k (4.9%) on E4 at 10pm (+1: 163k, 2.1%).

On Five, Neighbours took 1.57m (9.3%) and Home & Away followed with 1.14m (5.8%).

Without I'm A Celebrity, ITV1's share dropped to second place with an average primetime share of 19.3% (last week: 25.2%). BBC One took first with an average share of 24.8% (21.8%) while BBC Two was third with 7% (7%). Five took 6.8% (6.8%), edging out Channel 4's 6.4% (6.1%).

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Ratings data supplied by Attentional