'Glee' Madonna episode brings in 1.9m

E4's broadcast of the much-hyped Madonna episode of Glee was seen by a total audience of around 1.9 million last night (Monday), early figures suggest.

The episode brought in an impressive 1.42m (5.7%) to E4 in the 9pm hour, helping the channel beat parent station Channel 4 in the timeslot.

A further 458k (2.6%) watched the episode an hour later on timeshift station E4+1. E4's combined primetime share last night was 3.8%, level with Five.

The audience for Glee was on par with the figures for its record return a week earlier.

Meanwhile, the second episode of Blitz Street put in 1.41m (5.7%) for Channel 4 at 9pm, a week-on-week fall of over 200k.

The latest instalment of FlashForward had 1.51m (6%) for Five, a fall of 100k, while BBC Two's Mary Queen Of Charity Shops: Revisited managed 1.45m (5.8%).

BBC One won the 9pm slot with the second episode of three-part drama Five Daughters, which drew 5.06m (20.3%), holding steady with its opening audience on Sunday. On ITV1, Joanna Lumley's Nile interested 4.21m (16.9%).

Earlier, at 8pm, the latest episode of Young, Autistic and Stagestruck drew just 480k (2%) to Channel 4, beaten by the 1.26m (5.3%) audience for Five's The Gadget Show.

Hidden Houses of Wales and The Hairy Bakers logged 1.39m (5.9%) and 1.84m (7.7%) for BBC Two. ITV1's Countrywise appealed to 3.77m (16.1%) in the first half of the hour, then at 8.30pm, a Panorama report on teaching standards was seen by 3.21m (13.4%) on BBC One.

ITV1 led primetime overall, with an average share of 23.1% to BBC One's 21.7%. BBC Two was third with 6.4%, followed by Channel 4 with 4.7% (+1: 0.5%) and Five with 3.8%.

BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional