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- MediaGuardian,
- Tuesday June 12 2001
ITV's Survivor scored its second best rating last night with 6.5m viewers, beating BBC1's Donal MacIntyre-fronted Oklahoma bomber documentary.
Last night's Survivor, the first since the two tribes of contestants merged, was on from 9pm-10pm and featured the participants standing on a log in the ocean for 23 hours.
Survivor pulled in a 31% share of the audience, according to unofficial overnights, its best rating since the opening night three weeks earlier when the reality show took 6.6m.
The last instalment of the show, which has been cut from four to two episodes per week owing to disappointing ratings, drew 4.7m viewers on Friday night.
The Oklahoma Bomber, the BBC1 opposition between 9pm and 10pm, was a documentary by Neil Grant that considered what drove Timothy McVeigh to murder 168 people with a car bomb in April 1995.
It attracted 4.1m viewers and a 19% audience share.
Channel 4's Big Brother continues to rate well in its regular weekday 10pm to 10.30pm slot.
Last night's instalment, which featured further cat fighting between Narinder and Helen and the first glimpse of new housemate Josh, had 4.2m viewers and a 22% audience share.
Elsewhere last night, Channel 5's fast turnaround Michael Barrymore Story documentary was on between 8.30pm and 9pm.
It drew a healthy 1.5m viewers and 7% audience share.
MediaGuardian.co.uk special reports
