The weekend saw both the BAFTAs and the FA Cup final take centre stage on many people’s screens, with the FA Cup scoring 4.96 million as Wigan Athletic won the prize for the first time. The BAFTAs pulled in their highest ratings since 2004, with over 6 million viewers seeing Olivia Coleman scoop a double win, with a 25.5% share rating.
The penultimate episode of BBC One's The Village recorded an average audience of 4.8m (20.1%) viewers, in the same week that it has been confirmed that it will return for a second series.
The latest adventure of young Morse continued to be a hit with the viewers on Sunday as 5.3m tuned in, helping Endeavour to a 21.4% share of the audience in the process.
The first full series of ITV’s Morse prequel Endeavour launched last night with a very satisfactory 5.9m viewers and a 23.4% audience share.
It’s been another good week for ITV drama, with both Broadchurch and Scott & Bailey pulling in viewers.
The second episode of Doctor Who’s new run pulled in a respectable 5.5m (28.8%) viewers on Saturday, but was slightly down on the previous weekend’s opening episode.
ITV drama suffered another mixed week as Lightfields came to an end with only 3.3m (14.5%) viewers, but Broadchurch continued to perform strongly and attracted 7.2m viewers on Monday night.
An old favourite made a triumphant return to ITV this weekend as the young blood struggled to maintain its strong start.
ITV’s Broadchurch went from strength to strength this week and the second series of The Syndicate had a strong opening on BBC One.
Zombie drama In The Flesh launched on BBC Three on Sunday with a respectable 668k viewers.
