Whitechapel rose to nearly 5.8 million viewers last night to help ITV1 to primetime victory, according to overnight data.
Though beaten last week by BBC One's The Diamond Queen, the Rupert Penry-Jones drama bounced back by improving to 5.79m (22.6%) in the 9pm hour (+1: 295k/1.6%).
The Diamond Queen dropped to 5.5m (21.5%) on its second week.
Earlier in the night, an instalment of BBC One's Panorama drew 3.26m (12.8%) from 8.30pm and ITV1's Cornwall with Caroline Quentin took 4.3m (17%) from 8pm.
On BBC Two, University Challenge continued with 2.8m (11.1%), An Island Parish had 2m (7.9%) and Protecting Our Children was watched by 1.75m (6.8%).
Channel 4's Dispatches was seen by 873k (3.4%) from 8pm (+1: 117k/0.5%), Coppers took 1.62m (6.3%) in the 9pm hour (+1: 321k/1.7%) and True Stories averaged 1.27m (7.5%) from 10pm (+1: 239k/2.6%).
Over on Channel 5, Police Interceptors appealed to 1.12m (4.4%). It was followed by an airing of Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan, which remained steady at 1.1m (4.3%).
Overall, ITV1 won the night with 24.1%, ahead of BBC One's 21.8%. BBC Two finished third with 7%, followed by Channel 4 and Channel 5, which grabbed 4.9% (+1: 0.7%) and 3.5% respectively.
On E4, the latest episode of Skins dipped to 349k (1.9%) and 107k (1.1%) on timeshift.
