A peak audience of more than 11 million viewers watched Carl “Foggy” Fogarty win ITV’s I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!.
The former world superbike champion’s triumph had an average of 10.4 million viewers, a 41.6% share, from 9pm on Sunday, and a five-minute high of 11.2 million.
The jungle reality show hosted by Ant and Dec could not quite hit the heights of last year’s final, won by Westlife’s Kian Egan, which had 10.9 million viewers (42%) and a peak of 11.9 million.
But it was still by some distance the most watched show of the night, and will be one of ITV’s biggest shows of 2014 come the end of the year.
It overshadowed the X Factor semi-final results show, which had 8.3 million viewers (32.1%) between 8pm and 9pm with a peak of 10.1 million.
The X Factor once again lost out to BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing, where the shock exit of Pixie Lott in its quarter final results show had 9.1 million viewers (34.7%) and a five-minute peak of 10.8 million.
Both the BBC1 and ITV talent show rivals were down on the equivalent shows last year.
The X Factor results show was down 300,000 from last year’s semi final, watched by 9.2 million (35%), while Strictly Come Dancing shed 200,000 from last year’s quarter final audience of 9.3 million (35%).
Remember Ronnie
Nearly 3 million viewers watched Ronnie O’Sullivan’s final frame thriller in the UK snooker championship.
O’Sullivan’s 10-9 win, after Judd Trump came back from 9-4 down, had an average of 2.1 million viewers, an 8% share, between 7pm and 10.15pm and a five-minute peak of 2.9 million.
BBC1’s three-part ghost story, Remember Me, starring Michael Palin, finished with 4.2 million viewers, a 15.9% share, between 9pm and 10pm, having started with 5.3 million (30.8%) a fortnight ago.
Over on Channel 4, Homeland, now into the ninth episode of series four, had 1.4 million viewers, a 5.3% share.
