The first episode was watched by six million viewers, giving the channel a 31 per cent share of viewing public, peaking at 6.6 million.
The second, in which Aidan, played by Shayne Ward, was reunited with former fiance Eva Price, played by Catherine Tyldesley, was watched by 5.9 million viewers with a 31 per cent share and a peak of 6.4 million.
Viewers learned that Aidan would take his own life off screen after Monday’s double bill.
In emotional earlier scenes, Aidan returned the engagement ring to Eva and the pair told each other they loved each other and danced to their favourite song, Cosmic Love.
Ward’s last scenes saw him sitting in the Rovers Return as the song played again and tears rolled down his cheeks.
Over on BBC One later the return of Peter Kay’s Car Share at 10pm pulled in 4.4 million viewers with a 28.5 per cent audience share, peaking at 4.7 million.
The comedian and his co-star Sian Gibson created an unscripted episode, in which the duo improvised throughout.
It was Kay’s first appearance on television since cancelling his live UK tour for family reasons last year.
He introduced the ad-libbed episode by saying: “We just wanted to see what would happen if we filmed a whole journey without a script, just making it up, reacting to the radio, chatting and basically seeing what happened.”
