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"Over 7 million viewers tuned in to the third and final leaders&amp;#039; debate on Thursday night. The 90-minute debate, hosted by David Dimbleby, drew an average audience of 7.26m (27.9%) between 8.30pm and 10pm on BBC One. That figure is up more than 3 million from the total live audience across Sky News, Sky 3 and the BBC News Channel for last week&amp;#039;s second debate. However, ITV1&amp;#039;s coverage of the first leaders&amp;#039; debate attracted an average audience of almost 9.5m the week before that. Earlier on BBC One, Watchdog picked up 4.05m (17.5%) between 8pm and 8.30pm \u2013 an increase of more than 800k on the previous week. ITV1&amp;#039;s Great Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones averaged 2.88m (11.1%) in the 9pm hour, roughly on a par with the previous week. Meanwhile, Five&amp;#039;s live Europa League coverage pulled in a sizeable average of 3.22m (13.2%) between 7.30pm and 10pm. Channel 4 performed less impressively during primetime, with The Landscape Man attracting 1.11m (4.5%) in the 8pm hour and How The Other Half Live interesting 1.34m (5.2%) between 9pm and 10pm. BBC Two&amp;#039;s live snooker coverage attracted an average of 1.18m (5.3%) between 7pm and 9pm. The audience then dropped to 970k (3.5%) for Welcome To Lagos in the 9pm hour. Overall, BBC One won primetime with an average share of 26.8% to ITV1&amp;#039;s 17.0%. Five was third with 12.6%, followed by BBC Two with 4.6% and Channel 4 with 4.1% (+1: 0.5%). Aside from a repeat of EastEnders, the most-watched multichannel programme of the day was Russell Howard&amp;#039;s Good News, which drew 756k (4.2%) to BBC Three between 10.30pm and 11pm.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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