Ramsay's 'Nightmare' appeals to 3m

Ramsay's Great British Nightmare was a ratings winner for Channel 4 on Friday night, with around 3 million viewers tuning in.


The special - a two-hour version of the chef's Kitchen Nightmares format - averaged 2.96m (14.2%) between 9pm and 11.05pm. The figure is up around a million viewers achieved by a Jamie Oliver special the night before.

Five also had a strong showing in the 9pm slot with a new episode of NCIS, which managed 2.12m (9.2%) for the hour. ITV1 was the slot-winner, however, with 5.26m (22.8%) for Trial & Retribution.

Hollyoaks took 1.44m (7.1%) for Channel 4, and on Five, Neighbours had 1.54m (9.5%) and Home & Away had 1.17m (6.1%).

On Five at the same time, US crime drama Numb3rs was seen by 1.13m (6%).

ITV1 improved its overall primetime share to 25.4%, comfortably ahead of BBC One's 20.7%. Channel 4 was third with 9.5% (+1: 0.7%), followed by BBC Two with 6.5% and Five with 5.3%.

Fiver's premiere of a new Home & Away was the most-watched multichannel programme of the day, with an average of 822k (4.5%) at 6.30pm. It had almost double the audience of E4's first-look Hollyoaks, which managed 447k (2.4%) at 7pm.

Two episodes of American Idol pulled in 590k (2.9%) and 528k (3.1%) for ITV2 from 9pm, while on ITV3, a Greece-set Poirot put in 632k (3%) for the 8pm hour.

Source: DigitalSpy