BBC1’s coverage of the Bafta TV awards drew more than 5 million viewers on Sunday night, as Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly won two prizes for the second year in a row.
The event attracted an average of 5.2 million viewers and a 23.9% share of the total TV audience between 8pm and 10pm.
Viewing was ever so slightly up on the 5.1 million who tuned in for last year’s event, but down about 1 million on 2013’s show, which drew the event’s biggest audience for nearly a decade.
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch missed out on a Bafta at his fifth attempt. There were double wins for BBC2 drama Marvellous, ITV’s The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies and Ant and Dec, who won best entertainment programme and best entertainment performance for Saturday Night Takeaway.
The Baftas pulled audiences from ITV with the second outing of Sunday Night at the Palladium attracting 3.7 million viewers and a 17.3% share between 8pm and 9pm.
The variety show debuted last Sunday with an audience of 4.2 million viewers and a 23.9% share.
The second episode of ITV drama Homefires managed 5 million viewers, a 22% share of the audience between 9pm and 10pm, a loss of just 200,000 viewers week on week.
