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dinsdag 10 april 2012

'Celebrity Deal or No Deal' opens with 2m viewers on Easter Sunday

'Celebrity Deal or No Deal' opens with 2m viewers on Easter Sunday

Celebrity Deal or No Deal made its debut last night (Easter Sunday) with 2 million viewers, overnight figures show.

The Noel Edmonds gameshow pulled in 1.77m (7.3%) in the 8pm hour and 253k (1%) on Channel 4 +1 for Jimmy Carr's game, which saw the comic pick up £750 for charity and kicked off a special run of primetime shows.

Damian Lewis's Homeland followed with a solid 1.82m (7.4%) and 336k (1.7%) on +1.

Fellow US drama Once Upon a Time, launching to a high audience last week, retained a decent 1.67m (6.9%) for Channel 5 at 8pm (+1: 103k/0.4%). Royal documentary William and Kate: One Year On enthralled 1.69m (7.6%) at 7pm.

Over on BBC Two, the Masters Golf final scored 2.16m (11.4%) between 7pm and 12.45am, with a peak of 2.8m watching at 11.30pm.

Elsewhere, Julian Fellowes's Titanic sunk to a disappointing average of 3.17m (11.8%) for ITV1 at 9pm (+1: 364k/1.9%). The mini-series, which premiered with nearly 7m, concludes next week.

Des O'Connor's return to ITV primetime went down without much fanfare, with 3.46m (14.5%) tuning in at 7.30pm (+1: 172k/0.7%), while All Star Family Fortunes had 3.37m (16.3%) at 6.30pm (+1: 102k/0.4%).

Meanwhile on BBC One, Countryfile (5.19m/23.4%), Antiques Roadshow (5.4m/22.2%) and Silent Witness (5.88m/23.8%) all posted slot-winning numbers.

This meant that BBC One led primetime with 22.6%, ahead of ITV1's 12.5% (+1: 0.8%), BBC Two's 9.2%, Channel 4's 6.6% (+1: 1.3%), and Channel 5's 5.6% (+1: 0.4%).

BBC Three's Shrek the Third logged 1.23m (5%) at 8.25pm, and was one of the most-watched multichannel shows.

The digital channel's repeat of The Voice UK took 727k (3.2%) at 7pm, while Britain's Got Talent - repeated on ITV2 at 4.15pm - managed a superior 751k (4.9%) and 179k (1%) on timeshift.