Dancing on Ice is off to a flier

Dancing On Ice skated to success on Sunday night, enjoying the most successful start to the ITV1 show in five years.
By The Newsroom
Published 11th Jan 2011, 08:41 BST
Updated 11th Jan 2011, 08:42 BST

The TV contest notched up a peak audience of 10.7m, a 37 per cent share of viewing, the broadcaster said, up 500,000 on last year's opening.

The programme, whose line-up this year includes Kerry Katona and rapper Vanilla Ice, drew an average audience of 9.3m between 6.30pm and 8.30pm.

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The show became the most successful first episode, in terms of both peak and average figures, since the first series, won by Gaynor Faye, launched in 2006 with a peak of 11.2m viewers.

Dancing On Ice: The Skate Off, in which ex-newsreader Angela

Rippon and former EastEnders actress Nadia Sawalha became the first to go, was watched by up to 8.1m between 9.30pm to 10.15pm.