ITV wins talent clash of the titans after Britain's Got Talent goes head to head with I'd Do Anything

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ITV won the encounter hands down – around 14million viewers were thought to have tuned in to watch opera singer Faryl Smith compete with sexy string quartet eScala, breakdance comeback kid George Sampson and performing dog Gin with trainer Kate Nicholas on Britain’s Got Talent.

Winners: I'd Do Anything's Jodie Prenger (left) could not pull in views as well as Britain's Got Talent George Sampson

At stake were whole careers and £1million contracts such as that said to have been offered to

12-year-old Faryl. Her voice was described by Simon Cowell as ‘one in a million’.

But the BBC’s decision to schedule I’d Do Anything’s final so that only ten minutes clashed with the ITV show meant that its viewing figures were swelled beyond the 5.5million who have tuned in throughout the series.

The search for a Nancy for a new West End production of Oliver! was

a tense three-way contest between Irish girl Jessie Buckley, Jodie Prenger from Blackpool and Samantha Barks from the Isle of Man.

The bigger prize was victory in Britain’s Got Talent, which meant £100,000 and a chance to appear on the Royal Variety Performance in front of the Prince of Wales at Christmas.