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Anfield draw is TV gold


More than 10 million viewers watched Chelsea score a last-gasp Champions League equaliser against Liverpool on ITV (1) See interactive TV.

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ITV1's coverage of the semi-final first leg from Anfield, which ended 1-1, averaged 8.1 million viewers, 33% of the audience between 7.30pm and 10pm, according to according to
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 unofficial overnight ratings.

The match itself, which kicked off at 7.45pm, averaged 9.1 million, with a peak of 10.2 million and 40% watching the last half hour from around 9pm.

The football beat both BBC BBC
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Channel 4's Jacques Peretti documentary, Heather Mills Heather Mills (born 12 January 1968 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England), also known by her courtesy title (from her husband, Sir Paul McCartney) as Lady McCartney or Heather Mills McCartney : What Really Happened, had 2.7 million viewers at 10pm, 16% of the audience.

It beat the News at Ten on ITV1, which had 2.3 million, and BBC2's Later Live… with Jools Holland, which could only manage 600,000. The BBC News at 10pm on BBC1 had 5 million viewers, 25% of the audience.

The final of BBC2's University Challenge – The Professionals had 1.9 million viewers, an 8% share at 8pm on BBC2.

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The Gok Wan style-show also beat BBC2's The Hairy Bikers Come Home, which had 1.6 million at 8.30pm.

Channel 4's six-part documentary series The Diets That Time Forgot, which featured electric shock treatment, tape worms and revulsion therapy, finished with 1.5 million viewers, a 6% share.

It beat BBC2's documentary The Age of Terror, which averaged 900,000 viewers, but lost out to Channel Five's CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator
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