LATEST TERRESTRIAL RATINGS
Liberty of London sheds 700,000 viewers
Channel 4’s department store doc Liberty of London lost 35% of its audience on Monday – as The Royal Variety Performance shed a million viewers.
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OVERNIGHTS: PAST SEVEN DAYS
Friday
Robbie gig entertains almost 5m
Robbie Williams live swing performance at the Palladium performed relatively well for BBC1 on a quiet Friday night.
Saturday
X Factor semi-final outshines 2012
The X Factor semi-final outperformed last year’s outing, but was still easily beaten by a series high for Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday.
Sunday
I’m a Celebrity bows out on three-year high
Sunday’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! final was the show’s highest-rated climax since 2010 as Kian Egan was crowned king of the jungle.
Monday
Liberty of London sheds 700,000 viewers
Channel 4’s department store doc Liberty of London lost 35% of its audience on Monday – as The Royal Variety Performance shed a million viewers.
Tuesday
Last Tango no match for I'm A Celeb
Last Tango in Halifax fell to a series low of 4.5m as it struggled against I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! on Tuesday.
Wednesday
Fallow ratings for BBC farm shows
Farm Kitchen and Monastery Farm fell to series lows as I’m A Celebrity continued to hoover up viewers on Wednesday.
Thursday
Nelson Mandela coverage peaks with 6m for BBC1
BBC1’s coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela was seen by a peak audience of 6.1m on Thursday.
CONSOLIDATED RATINGS
Doctor Who 50th becomes most-watched drama of 2013
Doctor Who’s 50th anniverary special has passed Downton Abbey to become the most watched TV drama of the year after adding 2.6m in the week after broadcast.
RATINGS ANALYSIS: WEEK IN REVIEW
Last but not least for BBC1
How on earth did it get to be December? I had weeks, if not months, to do my Christmas shopping and now, suddenly, there are just a handful of days left.
CHANNEL OVERVIEW (BBC2, Channel 4, Channel 5)
Wild Burma tames C4 Cats
It remains difficult for me to see a polystyrene cup without wanting to pick it up, place it between my teeth and launch into “sitting at my piano the other day”, followed by throwing an imaginary ball into a paper bag.
DIGITAL FOCUS
Cops crack it for ITV3
Did the comet Ison have the cosmos’s most useless satnav? After 3 million years of travel, its command was: ‘In 1 million miles take the second exit and head for the big, hot yellow thing.’
NON-PSB DIGITAL RATINGS
Fairytale result for Disney Jr
The big football-centric beasts may be spending the sort of money that would make Croesus blush, and dominating the press in an Alpha sort of way, but sometimes the big news is about a cartoon princess who turns into a mermaid to visit an underwater city. Oh, and tow trucks.
SPECIAL REPORT
Award hits but ratings misses
C4 may have picked up a slew of Broadcast Awards nominations but this hasn’t been matched by a flood of viewers.
