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Both Britain's Got Talent and The Voice once again claimed victory in their Saturday night ratings war as early viewing figures were released.

The second round of the shows' head-to-head battle saw Britain's Got Talent once again secure the highest peak audience, with 12.6m - compared to the peak audience of 10.2m who tuned in to The Voice.

And BGT's average audience was also higher, with 9.9m tuning in for an audience share of 42 per cent - while The Voice averaged an audience of 9m - or 39.3 per cent of the audience share.

However, the BBC said that their show had once again beaten BGT during the 20 minute period from 8pm when the two shows overlapped.

During that time The Voice was watched by two million more viewers than BGT, with the latter show scoring 7.6m compared to the 9.6m who were still tuned in to BBC1.

The figures will come as a blow to Simon Cowell, who reportedly ordered a revamp of Saturday's Britain's Got Talent, after being left furious by the ratings loss to the ITV1 show during the overlap.

According to The Sun, the mogul ordered last minute re-edits of Saturday's show, with production staff not knowing until close to transmission time which acts had made the cut.

Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern was also ordered to return to London from Manchester to re-shoot links for the ITV2 show.


Metro