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"Ricky Gervais&amp;#039;s first full series of Derek began with a respectable audience last night. The Channel 4 care home sitcom, also starring Karl Pilkington and Kerry Godliman, was watched by 1.44m (7.7%) and 207,000 on +1. &amp;gt; Read Digital Spy&amp;#039;s first review of Ricky Gervais&amp;#039;s Derek here  Despite being 400,000 short of last April&amp;#039;s pilot, Channel 4 has said that Derek scored 31% above the usual Wednesday 10pm slot average and won the battle in the 16-34 viewer market. The broadcaster&amp;#039;s 9pm offering of One Born Every Minute pulled in 1.18m (5.1%) and 390k on timeshift, prior to which Gok&amp;#039;s Style Secrets climbed to 1.18m (5.4%) at 8pm (+1: 122k). Excluding the soaps, Midsomer Murders was the day&amp;#039;s most-watched broadcast with 5.64m (23.6%) for ITV (+1: 272k) between 8pm and 10pm, while Food Inspectors (3.52m/15.2%) and David Attenborough&amp;#039;s Africa (5.03m/20.6%) aired on BBC One. Over on BBC Two, The Hairy Bikers returned with their &amp;#039;Everyday Gourmet&amp;#039; entertaining 2.07m (8.9%), after which 1.56m (6.4%) watched Horizon. NCIS was Channel 5&amp;#039;s best-rated screening of the night with 1m (4.1%) in the 9pm hour and 168k on the network&amp;#039;s +1 service. Overall, ITV won primetime fairly comfortably with 24% (+1: 1.1%) versus BBC One&amp;#039;s 19.5%. BBC Two followed in third place with 6.4%, ahead of Channel 4&amp;#039;s 5.5% (+1: 1%), and 5&amp;#039;s 3.6% (+1: 0.3%).  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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