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Route Masters underway with over 2m onboard
The Route Masters: Running London’s Roads set off with an audience of over 2m on Tuesday - racing away from ITV’s Royal Windsor doc.
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OVERNIGHTS: PAST SEVEN DAYS
Friday
Million Pound Drop returns with 1.6m
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England bowed out with a series low for BBC2 on Friday as Channel 4’s Million Pound Drop Live returned with 1.6m.
Saturday
The Voice rallies ahead of finals
The Voice rallied slightly on Saturday night for BBC1 as ITV’s Goodbye Granadaland failed to receive a significant send-off from viewers.
Sunday
The White Queen debuts to mixed fortunes
BBC1’s lavish War of the Roses drama The White Queen reigned supreme on Sunday, despite being 600k viewers below slot average.
Monday
Long Lost Family finds record audience
Long Lost Family found its biggest audience on record for ITV – as BBC2’s Airport Live took off with nearly 2.6m viewers on Monday.
Tuesday
Route Masters underway with over 2m onboard
The Route Masters: Running London’s Roads set off with an audience of over 2m on Tuesday - racing away from ITV’s Royal Windsor doc.
Wednesday
Thursday
Cats claw in 5m for Horizon
Horizon’s focus on the secret life of cats helped claw in the BBC2 science strand’s biggest audience since 2000 and overshadowed the return of Big Brother on Thursday.
SPECIAL REPORT
May ushers in slate of original shows
May proved to be a busy month for broadcasters and producers, with more than 100 programmes added onto our commissioning index Greenlight - almost 80% of them new programmes.
CONSOLIDATED RATINGS
BBC’s slot swap fails
When Swap Shop burst onto our screens all those years ago, it was like a TV programme beamed from Mars.
RATINGS ANALYSIS: WEEK IN REVIEW
Egg-citing end for ITV’s BGT
Cowell’s talent machine romps to victory as stage stunt brightens up an otherwise flat week.
CHANNEL OVERVIEW (BBC2, Channel 4, Channel 5)
The Fall slays them all
I thought the most dangerous Tudor was the twerp who suggested Henry VIII write a song about sleeves, but it’s really bible translator William Tyndale, according to BBC2’s Tudor season, which continued in an anniversary-heavy week.
MULTICHANNEL ANALYSIS
A good call for BBC3
We’re on a new digital journey, with a new table breaking out those digital shows unconnected to PSB operators. But where they have breakout hits, they’ll still appear here; think of this as the definitive digital mirror to our top 100.
