TV ratings: Father & Son launches with 5.2m viewers

ITV1's new Dougray Scott drama Father & Son launched with more than 5 million viewers, winning the 9pm ratings battle last night, Monday 7 June. Father & Son, written by the late Frank Deasy, stars Scott as a reformed gangster drawn back to the Manchester underworld when his son witnesses a shooting and is the latest ITV1 drama to be stripped across consecutive nights. The four-parter plays out until Thursday. The drama opened with 5.173 million viewers and a 21.6% audience share on ITV1, with a further 177,000 (0.8%) for the ITV1 HD simulcast. 9pm competition included BBC1 documentary For Queen and Country (3.224 million/13.5%, 39,000/0.2%) and the return of Mary Queen of Shops (2.605 million/10.9%) to BBC2 for a new series. Channel Five's documentary about an amateur dramatic society putting on a West End play with the help of a famous actor, David Jason: The Show Must Go On!, attracted 511,000 (2.1%). Channel 4's terrestrial premiere of the film Cloverfield had 1.629 million (7.2%) from 9pm, with a further 285,000 (1.9%) on Channel 4+1. ITV1 also last night broadcast two of the Coronation Street episodes pulled last week because of the Cumbria shootings . The episodes due to be broadcast last Wednesday and Thursday featured the ongoing storyline with prison escapee Tony Gordon, played by Gary O'Brien, holding hostages in the Underworld clothing factory armed with a gun. Coronation Street attracted 8.791 million (40.2%) on ITV1 from 7.30pm, with a further 316,000 (1.4%) on ITV1 HD. The second Monday episode had 8.902 million (37.1%) on ITV1 from 8.30pm and 281,000 (1.2%) on ITV1 HD. Five main terrestrial analogue networks BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel Five (available in all UK homes with TV, except Five, which reaches about 95%) BBC1 8pm: EastEnders - 8.777 million/37.6% 8.30pm: Panorama: The Cumbrian Shootings - 2.698 million/11.3% 10.35pm: The Graham Norton Show - 2.471 million/18.4%, BBC HD 13,000/0.1% BBC2 8pm: Springwatch - 2.841 million/12%, BBC HD 87,000/0.4% ITV1 7pm: Emmerdale - 6.692 million/33.2%, ITV1 HD 182,000/0.9% Channel 4 8pm: Dispatches: Undercover Social Worker - 1.063 million/4.5%, C4+1 145,000/0.6% Five 8pm: Police Interceptors (new series) - 907,000/3.8% 10pm: The Simon Cowell Factor - 742,000/4.1% Freeview/digital terrestrial TV free-to-air networks Available in 23.4m UK homes – 91.4% of total – as of 31/12/09. Source: Ofcom digital progress report, Q4 2009 Fiver 6.30pm: Home and Away - 480,000/2.6% E4 7pm: Hollyoaks - 472,000/2.3% 9pm: Glee - 1.203 million/5% 10pm: Gleeful: the Real Show Choirs of America - 411,000/2.3% BBC3 7pm: On the Money with Robert Peston (new series) - 125,000/0.6% 8.30pm: The Wags' Stories - 236,000/1% 10pm: EastEnders (rpt) - 821,000/4% 10.30pm: Bizarre ER - 453,000/2.9% BBC4 9pm: Opera Italia - 244,000/1% 10pm: Storyville: Valentino - the Last Emperor - 153,000/1% Virgin1 9pm: Chuck - 200,000/0.8% 10pm: Trauma - 185,000/1% Cable and satellite pay-TV networks Available in 12.4m UK homes – 48.2% of total – as of 31/12/09. Source: Ofcom digital progress report, Q4 2009 Living 8pm: Australia's Next Top Model - 88,000/0.4% 9pm: Four Weddings - 219,000/0.9% Sky1 10pm: NCIS: Los Angeles - 182,000/1% Comedy Central 10pm: 30 Rock - 69,000/0.3% 10.30pm: 30 Rock - 48,000/0.3% Bravo 9pm: Dog the Bounty Hunter - 65,000/0.3% All ratings are unofficial overnight figures, including live and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, HD, +1 or other – unless otherwise stated • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".