TV ratings 01-01-2019

The first night of the year saw telly big guns facings each other. Emmerdale narrowly beat Doctor Who with the ITV Soap getting 5:17 million viewers while DW got 5:15 million viewers. In a rare head to head clash Coronation Street beat Eastenders with 5.39 million viewers with the latter getting 4.74 million. The big draw was BBC1's crime thriller Luther which got 5.63 million viewers. The disappointment of the was the opening show of the latest run of Who Wants To be a Millionaire which got 3.39 million viewers upstaged by fellow ITV quiz show The Chase which got 3.86 million viewers.