'Benidorm' still a hit for ITV1, returns with 6.6 million

25 February 2012 3:20 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

ITV's Benidorm returned with strong numbers last night, according to the latest overnight data. The Derren Litten sitcom's fifth series launch grabbed 6.24m (26.7%) for ITV1, adding 406k (2.3%) on +1. However, despite blitzing the 9pm hour, ratings were down by over a million on last year's record-breaking opener. BBC One's old episode of New Tricks was closest to the holiday comedy, drawing 3.96m (16.9%), while The Mentalist took 1.31m (5.6%) for Channel 5. A Melvyn Bragg documentary on BBC Two, Class and Culture, interested 1.32m (5.7%), and 990k (4.2%) watched George Lamb's The Bank Job on Channel 4 (+1: 185k/1%). At 10pm, Castle logged 1.02m (5.6%) for Channel 5, but was beaten in the hour overall by BBC Two, which had 2.03m (10.4%) for a Qi repeat. (more) »

- By Paul Millar

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