TV ratings: Harry Hill's TV Burp throws up 6m-plus audience for ITV1

But Harry Hill double bill are the only ITV1 shows of the night to get higher ratings than BBC1 competition
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Harry Hill's TV Burp: drew an average 29% audience share. Photograph: ITV

Harry Hill's TV Burp bounced back on to ITV1 with 6.6 million viewers, taking the wind out of the sails of BBC1's So You Think You Can Dance on Saturday, 30 January.

However, apart from So You Think You Can Dance, all BBC1's other Saturday night prime time shows beat their ITV1 rivals.

The new series of Hill's comic take on the week's television drew an average 29% audience share between 7pm and 7.30pm, according to unofficial overnight figures.

So You Think You Can Dance drew an average of 4.6 million viewers and a 21% share over 60 minutes from 6.30pm, with 4.8 million in the half-hour it went head to head with TV Burp.

The BBC1 dance talent show was down on last week, when it ran in a later slot at 7pm, attracting 5.8 million viewers and a 25% share.

Hill's New You've Been Framed! also beat So You Think You Can Dance when the two went head to head between 6.30pm and 7pm.

The ITV1 clip show picked up 5.6 million viewers, against the average 4.5 million watching BBC1's dancing talent search.

Later in the evening, the half-hour results show for So You Think You Can Dance won 4.8 million viewers and a 20% share from 8.20pm.

This was just behind the 5 million who were watching the final quarter-hour of ITV1's dating series Take Me Out. Overall, Take Me Out had 4.6 million viewers and a 20% share over an hour from 7.30pm.

But the results show stepped up to beat the beginning of All Star Mr & Mrs by 200,000 viewers.

Overall, All Star Mr & Mrs won an average of 4.8 million viewers, a 20% share, between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.

The National Lottery quiz show In It to Win It was watched by 5.9 million and a 25% share between 7.30pm and 8.20pm.

Casualty also got the better of All Star Mr & Mrs, drawing in 5.6 million viewers and a 24% share between 8.50pm and 9.40pm.

The BBC1 drama was followed by a repeat of comedy show Live at the Apollo, which scored 3.5 million, compared with the 2.3 million who watched Hugh Grant film repeat Nine Months on ITV1.

Nine Months was only just ahead of the 2 million pulled in by Five's CSI:NY between 9.40pm and 10.40pm and at one point just after 10.15pm the two channels were neck and neck with 2.2 million.

Meanwhile, the first part of BBC2's new four-part series about the internet – fronted by the Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast host Aleks Krotoski – The Virtual Revolution, drew 1.2 million viewers and a 5% audience share at 8.30pm.

Channel 4's repeat of the ecological disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow had 2.3 million viewers and a 10% share between 8pm and 10.20pm.



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