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"The first episode of the new series of Strictly Come Dancing scored 7.81m (35.2%) on BBC One on Friday (September 27), overnight data suggests. The audience peaked at 8.07m at 9.45pm, roughly on a par with last year&amp;#039;s opener. It was down 620k on the September 7 launch show.    Meanwhile on Channel 4, Joss Whedon&amp;#039;s highly-anticipated Marvel&amp;#039;s Agents of SHIELD launched to 2.76m (12.6%) at 8pm (471k/2.1%). Back on BBC One, The One Show interested 3.65m (20.6%) from 7pm, after which Ronnie&amp;#039;s Animal Crackers appealed to 2.46m (12.7%) at 7.30pm. Miranda took 3.32m (14.6%) at 8.30pm and John Bishop Live: Rollercoaster Tour  attracted 2.44m (21.5%) at 10.45pm.  BBC Two showed Hairy Bikers&amp;#039; Everyday Gourmets to 1.43m (7.7%) at 7pm. Mastermind and Gardeners&amp;#039; World then took 1.97m (9.3%) and 2.26m (9.9%) respectively from 8pm, while David Attenborough&amp;#039;s Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates had 1.43m (6.5%) at 9pm. QI grabbed 1.99m (11%) at 10pm.  On ITV, Gino&amp;#039;s Italian Escape was seen by 2.79m (13.2%) from 8pm (93k/0.4%). Piers Morgan&amp;#039;s Life Stories followed with 2.03m (9.2%) at 9pm (322k/2%) and The Break-Up took 520k (5.3%) from 10.45pm (45k/0.8%)  The finale of The IT Crowd secured 1.46m (6.6%) on Channel 4 at 9pm (380k/2.3%), while Alan Carr: Chatty Man aired to 1.63m (10.7%) at 10pm (200k/2.1%). On Channel 5, The World&amp;#039;s Strongest Man earned 391k (2.1%) at 7pm (22k/0.1%) and Monster Moves took 617k (2.8%) an hour later (74k/0.3%). CSI:NY was viewed by 944k (4.3%) at 9.15pm (184k/1.1%) and The Punisher was seen by 723k (5.8%) at 10pm (51k/0.7%).  Family Guy was the most watched broadcast on the multichannels, picking up 656k (6.6%) on BBC Three at 11.20pm.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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