As I mentioned in my review yesterday, ITV1's Monroe made a positive start on Thursday night at 9pm. The brand new medical drama starring James Nesbitt attracted 5.9m viewers, with an additional 143,000 tuning in an hour later on ITV1+1. It comfortably beat BBC1's Comic Relief: Famous & In The Slums (3.68m), Channel 4's Love Thy Neighbour (1.02m), and BBC2's The British At Work (1.65m). As a whole, ITV won the primetime battle on Thursday with 23.9% of the audience, ahead of BBC1's 18.3%.
