'Glee' season finale dazzles 1.2m on E4

The season two climax of Glee entertained more than 1.2m on Monday night, while Sir Terry Pratchett's controversial assisted suicide film had 1.6m, according to the latest audience data.

Glee, which was recently snapped up by Sky, concluded with 1.24m (5.1%) on E4 in the 9pm hour, down 300k on the finale of season one. A further 391k (2.2%) watched the episode on E4 +1.

Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, featuring footage of the assisted death of a British motor neurone sufferer, was watched by 1.64m (6.7%) on BBC Two from 9pm. Afterwards, a special Newsnight debate on the issue of assisted suicide stimulated 1.11m (5.6%).

Case Histories mustered 3.99m (16.3%) on BBC One in the 9pm hour, but was outperformed by The Waltons Sextuplets: Moving On, which took 5.52m (22.6%) on ITV1 and 244k (1.3%) on +1.

Earlier, Saints and Scroungers fetched 3.38m (16.1%) from 7.30pm, while The Dales entertained 3.24m (15.3%) on ITV1 from 8pm. Panorama grabbed 2.53m (10.9%) on BBC One from 8.30pm and A Question of Sport amused 2.14m (14.8%) from 10.45pm.

On BBC Two, James May's Toy Stories delighted 1.01m (5%) in the 7pm hour. Springwatch captivated 2.35m (10.3%) from 8pm and 162k (0.7%) on BBC HD.

Channel 4's Dispatches pulled in 660k (2.9%) in the 8pm hour. Embarrassing Fat Bodies enthralled 2.17m (8.9%) from 9pm and 555k (3%) on +1. A screening of Premonition captivated 880k (6.1%) from 10pm and 167k (2.2%) on timeshift.

How Do They Do It? was seen by 424k (2%) from 7pm, before Police Interceptors sped away with 1m (4.4%) from 8pm. The Restaurant Inspector served up 1.03m (4.2%) in the 9pm hour and a showing of Cleaner mustered 928k (6.5%) from 10pm.

Overall, ITV1 won primetime with 25.2% (+1: 0.6%) against BBC One's 19.3%. BBC Two came in third with 6.9%, followed by Channel 4 with 5.1% (+1: 1%) and Channel 5 with 3.8%.

Elsewhere, reality TV series Made In Chelsea climbed to 556k (3.1%) on E4 in the 10pm hour and 140k (1.4%) on +1.

World's Craziest Fools, presented by former A-Team star Mr. T, boggled 608k (3.8%) on BBC Three from 10.30pm. Game Of Thrones had 507k (2.1%) on Sky Atlantic from 9pm.

BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional