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Thursday June 2
ITV had a reality show that won more than 5 million viewers last night - but it wasn't Celebrity Love Island.
The new Pygmalion-style series, Ladette to Lady, made a promising start, with an average of 4.8 million viewers tuning in to watch 10 foul-mouthed girls being put through their paces at a finishing school.
Although it was initially beaten by BBC1's crime drama, Murphy's Law, at 9pm, by the time both shows ended an hour later, Ladette to Lady had inched ahead.
In the last 15 minutes it was being watched by 5.2 million viewers, compared with 5.1 million for Jimmy Nesbitt's Murphy's Law.
If Ladette to Lady builds on its promising start over the next four episodes it will be a boost to ITV's director of programmes, Nigel Pickard.
But there were some disappointing ratings for Celebrity Love Island. ITV's audiences fell by 1.5 million at 10pm as the network went over to Fiji.
However, there was a glimmer of hope. ITV finally got the controversy it was after with a fight between Fran Cosgrave and a belligerent Hollyoaks actor, Paul Danan, as well as what appeared to be a sexual encounter between Calum Best and Rebecca Loos in, appropriately, the loos.
The double-whammy helped it to 3.7 million, enabling it to close the gap on Big Brother when the two went head to head between 10pm and 10.30pm.
The first 15 minutes of Love Island matched its Channel 4 rival, though Big Brother then edged ahead by 200,000 to 3.9 million by 10.15pm, and had reached 5.3 million by 10.30pm.
ITV will be hoping that today's coverage of Love Island in the tabloids will help push ratings up further this evening as it faces Big Brother's first eviction night.
Channel 4's Make Me Normal, the first in a series of revealing documentaries in the Only Human strand rather than a plea from Big Brother's contestants, made a promising start at 9pm.
The critically acclaimed documentary about a state school for autistic children won 2.3 million viewers.
Thursday June 2
ITV had a reality show that won more than 5 million viewers last night - but it wasn't Celebrity Love Island.
The new Pygmalion-style series, Ladette to Lady, made a promising start, with an average of 4.8 million viewers tuning in to watch 10 foul-mouthed girls being put through their paces at a finishing school.
Although it was initially beaten by BBC1's crime drama, Murphy's Law, at 9pm, by the time both shows ended an hour later, Ladette to Lady had inched ahead.
In the last 15 minutes it was being watched by 5.2 million viewers, compared with 5.1 million for Jimmy Nesbitt's Murphy's Law.
If Ladette to Lady builds on its promising start over the next four episodes it will be a boost to ITV's director of programmes, Nigel Pickard.
But there were some disappointing ratings for Celebrity Love Island. ITV's audiences fell by 1.5 million at 10pm as the network went over to Fiji.
However, there was a glimmer of hope. ITV finally got the controversy it was after with a fight between Fran Cosgrave and a belligerent Hollyoaks actor, Paul Danan, as well as what appeared to be a sexual encounter between Calum Best and Rebecca Loos in, appropriately, the loos.
The double-whammy helped it to 3.7 million, enabling it to close the gap on Big Brother when the two went head to head between 10pm and 10.30pm.
The first 15 minutes of Love Island matched its Channel 4 rival, though Big Brother then edged ahead by 200,000 to 3.9 million by 10.15pm, and had reached 5.3 million by 10.30pm.
ITV will be hoping that today's coverage of Love Island in the tabloids will help push ratings up further this evening as it faces Big Brother's first eviction night.
Channel 4's Make Me Normal, the first in a series of revealing documentaries in the Only Human strand rather than a plea from Big Brother's contestants, made a promising start at 9pm.
The critically acclaimed documentary about a state school for autistic children won 2.3 million viewers.
