'Married Single Other', which stars Ralf Little from ‘The Royle Family' and Lucy Davis from ‘The Office', is ITV's attempt to recreate the success of shows such as 'Cold Feet'. It got off to a strong start, pulling in a 25.5% share of the available audience.
BBC One's police drama 'New Tricks' managed an average of 4.3 million viewers in the same slot, equivalent to a 17.8% share.
The popular new American high school drama 'Glee', which aired on Channel 4's E4 between 9pm and 10pm, continued to perform strongly for a show on a digital channel, with an average of 1.5 million viewers, including the contribution of E4+1, which was a 7% share.
The other three terrestrial channels lagged far behind ITV and BBC One. Five's showing of cop thriller 'The Bone Collector' starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie managed an average of 1.3 million viewers between 9pm and 11.25pm, a 6.7% share of the audience.
Channel 4's take on what happened when MPs went to council estates 'Tower Block of Commons', had an average of one million viewers between 9pm and 10pm. Channel 4's audience, which includes the contribution from Channel 4 +1, gave it a 4.7% share of the audience.
The final episode of the BBC Two documentary on Islamic martyrdom 'Generation Jihad' managed 772,000 viewers, a 3.2% share.
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