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Martin Clunes dog doc is best in show

* Mark Sweney
* guardian.co.uk,
* Tuesday August 26 2008 14:08 BST

Martin Clunes: A Man and His Dogs

Martin Clunes: A Man and His Dogs: beat Andrew Marr's Britain From Above. Photograph: ITV

Martin Clunes beat Andrew Marr in the battle of the authored documentaries on Sunday, August 24, with his ITV1 show about the history of dogs gaining nearly 6 million viewers.

ITV1's Martin Clunes: A Man and His Dogs attracted 5.7 million viewers and a 25% share in the 9pm hour, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The final episode of Sky1's Gladiators pulled in 587,000 viewers and a multichannel share of 3.6% between 7pm and 8pm.

Over on BBC3, the fourth instalment of Spooks spin-off Code 9 drew 288,000 viewers and a multichannel share of 1.4%.

This was way down on the launch episode of Spooks: Code 9 two Sundays ago, which pulled in 810,000 viewers.

Original article here.