Lenny Henry show works its magic with 5.4 million

MAGIC NUMBERS The Magicians: BBC1, 7pm – ratings for the second instalment of the Saturday night entertainment show held up well, with 5.4 million viewers and a 23.1% audience share. Last weekend's opener had 5.569 million/21.1% . BBC1's new magic and illusion show, hosted by Lenny Henry, once again had the better of ITV1's Primeval (7pm: 3.7 million/16%). The Magicians also proved more popular than Friday night's one-off ITV1 magic show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, which attracted 4.1 million/16.3%. ALL NEW TOTAL EARLY EVENING RATINGS WINNER All New Total Wipeout: BBC1, 6pm – the adventure gameshow hosted by Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram began its fourth series with 5.2 million viewers and a 24.1% share. The BBC1 show easily won its slot against admittedly weak ITV1 competition, including Harry Hill's the Best of TV Burp (6.30pm: 3.9 million/17.4%). CSI: STILL A HIT FRANCHISE CSI: NY: Channel 5, 9.40pm – the New York branch of the network's most robust ratings banker began its seventh series with 2.6 million viewers and an 11.6% share. This was enough to give Channel 5 a ratings victory over BBC2's terrestrial premiere of movie The Kite Runner (9.45pm: 1 million/5.5%) and Channel 4's documentary Derren Brown: Behind the Mischief (9pm: 1.7 million/7.1%, C4 +1 200,000). 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".