Ant & Dec push the button for 5.7m viewers

ANT AND DEC BACK ON THE BUTTON Ant & Dec's Push the Button: ITV1, 7.20pm – The second series of the gameshow got off to a winning start, coming out on top in its slot with an average of 5.776 million viewers and a 24.9% audience share. The show was slightly down on the first series debut in late February last year , which averaged 6.6 million and 26.7%. On Saturday Push the Button had the better of BBC1's All New Total Wipeout (7pm: 4.383 million/19.3%) and the first half hour of a new National Lottery series, Secret Fortune (8pm: 5.892 million/24.8%). BBC1's Casualty was the most-watched show of the day, averaging 5.936 million and 24.9%. REPEAT OFFENDER Midsomer Murders: ITV3, 9pm – The channel's formula of wall-to-wall ITV drama repeats may not be a ground-breaking scheduling strategy, but it's mighty effective. ITV3 is the second biggest multichannel service by audience share, behind sister channel ITV2. On Saturday a Midsomer Murders repeat pulled in 973,000 viewers (4.4%), making it the second most-watched multichannel show of the day, beaten only by Sky Sports 2's lunchtime coverage of Manchester United 2-1 Premier League win over Manchester City, which drew 1.46 million (14.3%) over three and a quarter hours from midday. ITV3 had three other drama repeats in Saturday's multichannel top 10 – Rosemary & Thyme (8pm: 720,000/3%), Inspector Morse (5.55pm: 641,000/2.9%) and Foyle's War (3.50pm: 498,000/3.1%). Multichannel competition in the 9pm slot for Midsomer Murders included Sky Atlantic's Boardwalk Empire (229,000/1%) and BBC4's Danish crime drama import The Killing (362,000/1.5%). All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, +1 or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".