All 7-day consolidated ratings articles – Page 33
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RatingsI’m A Celebrity up 7% year-on-year
I’m a Celebrity’s share was 7% up year-on-year, while ITV can also toast attracting more young, upmarket viewers, writes Stephen Price.
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RatingsDoctor 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.
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RatingsDownton takes a bow
The camera caresses the wide open spaces of Downton Abbey’s grounds as the trees, like shadowy sentinels, stand guard.
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RatingsIcing on cake for Bake Off
Maybe it’s because the news is so grim, but at 8pm on Tuesday nights people are eschewing the world of woe, perhaps delighted to fret instead about the state of strangers’ petit fours or Victoria sponges in a tent in the middle of a field; it’s as close to literally ...
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RatingsThe Mill goes out on top
This week had a certain fin de siècle about it as three dramas all ended on the same night, with mixed fortunes.
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RatingsNon-PSBs win the day
With exploited Victorian children and sadistic murderers, it’s currently August rather than TS Eliot’s April that is the cruellest month.
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RatingsNo trouble at The Mill
Working in TV can be quite glamorous, but when August arrives, things do slow down – to the extent that my big job seems to be pairing up the hundreds of socks I own.
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RatingsRun walks off with share rise
Although August is the month of holidays and a time when the news goes a bit round the bend –Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and whistling llamas on the Today programme was the starting gun – television still entices viewers.
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RatingsA Shore-fire hit for MTV
And the heat goes on; it’s great.I’ve forgotten what long trousers are like.
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RatingsLuther packs a punch for BBC
Neil Cross’s drama returned to 5 million on its original TX, a decent number but slightly lacking the punch of the 5.5 million who tuned in for series two’s opener back in 2011.
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RatingsHard labour benefits ITV
It’s like working in the tropics: blinds on the windows, electric fan wafting warm-ish air from side to side and causing occasional trouser-fluttering surprise when I’d forgotten about it.
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RatingsFamily affair boosts ITV
Does the god of news have a woe-ometer and is it cranked up to 10? Everything seems full of woe, and now it seems the lights may go out because the donkey peddling the power stations is running out of hay.
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RatingsWhite Queen rules okay
As demonstrated by the Live Aid performance, a Queen has a certain powerful aura.
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RatingsBBC’s slot swap fails
When Swap Shop burst onto our screens all those years ago, it was like a TV programme beamed from Mars.
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RatingsDave clears up with Storage
We all have one. A cupboard stuffed with everything that has no home anywhere else.
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RatingsA mixed bag for the Doctor
As is traditional, Doctor Who enjoyed a resurgence as the latest series reached its climax – but it could not match the opener of this eight-part run.
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RatingsGoing to the dogs suits ITV
Around the corner from my house is a dog-walking emporium. As the chaotic canine circus hurtles by, it becomes clear that at the doggy meeting beforehand, the motion demanding anarchy carried the day.
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RatingsSitcom double trouble for ITV
The phrase ‘double bill’ still resonates in my mind with memories of unruly behaviour in the cinema at Saturday morning kids’ club, which usually left the tearful boss, tended by an usherette, lying prone and covered in popcorn.
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RatingsSky’s mighty Following
When, 150 years ago, Ebenezer Morley sat around a pub table to establish the Football League by saying “right then lads, get the pints in and let’s codify footie”, I don’t imagine a voice piped up at the back: “Don’t forget the Dow Jones Index.”
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RatingsFox cracks the Da Vinci code
If Leonardo Da Vinci even knew where or what South Wales was, I bet that, equipped as he was with something of a wild imagination, he would never have thought that one day a fictionalised account of his life would be filmed in Port Talbot.