7-day consolidated ratings – Page 30
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RatingsDownton on an upper
Downton Abbey continues to prove that the UK’s appetite for costume melodrama remains unabated, as the latest consolidated episode, which aired on 7 October, is again at the top of the table.
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NewsTidy time for MTV’s Valleys
Perhaps the most famous of all Welsh poet and drinker Dylan Thomas’ works is Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, with its epic exhortation to “rage, rage against the dying of the light”.
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FeaturesRatings blip is no joke for C4
At school, my maths teacher had a very distinctive non-local accent, with which I became so fascinated that I often ignored the sums.
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FeaturesSame again for Downton
ITV1’s Downton Abbey and Sky1’s Moone Boy picked up strong audiences after consolidation.
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FeaturesBaking – or rampaging?
ITV1’s The Jury and A Mother’s Son, Sky Atlantic series The British, BBC2’s Great British Bake Off and Channel 5’s Dallas all picked up strong audiences after consolidation.
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RatingsDoctor Who’s back with a bang
Doctor Who’s return to BBC1 was recorded by nearly 2m viewers making it one of the highest rating episodes in close to two years.
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RatingsRoyal in-laws woo viewers
The full gamut of the dramatic narrative was on display this week. It felt a bit like being at school in double English, studying a very thick and intense book full of meaning, apparently, and then rushing home to watch Hong Kong Phooey.
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RatingsWeight loss gains viewers
The Hairy Bikers quest to lose weight was recorded by nearly half a million BBC2 viewers taking it to the best audience of the series.
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RatingsOlympics take the honours
It all feels like a faraway dream: the wild cheering, the tears of joy/despair and the super-human feats amid the general balmy madness of the Olympics.
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FeaturesViewers want to have fun
For all time, seemingly, the news has been dominated by grey men and women talking solemnly about the financial crises and scandals that afflict our daily lives, assuring us all that this time it’s all fixed; it never is. So it’s no big surprise that the Olympics has caught fire ...
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RatingsE! keeps up with the Kardashians
Having a touch of the Kardashians sounds like the sort of thing the Borgias might contract after a particularly debauched evening in the Vatican. Apparently, however, they are entirely different entities that are breaking records for E! in the same way the errant Pope and his troupe broke bed springs.
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RatingsFilm 4 finds the right fuel
Movies such as Avatar have helped Film 4 secure major audiences in recent weeks.
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RatingsDriving home Will’s value
Driving through Warwickshire up the M40, the trees are greener, the roads slightly smoother and the sun shinier. I am sure William Shakespeare felt the same on his journey home (though not up the M40, obviously) after a hard day’s scribbling.
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RatingsViewers like a touch of Silk
The final episode of BBC1 legal drama Silk topped all-comers for the most recorded programme of the week.
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RatingsNew king of chat on BBC1
Graham Norton has now established his position as BBC1’s king of chat pulling some of his biggest audiences to date and stepping out of the shadow of predecessor Jonathan Ross.
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RatingsBedlam once more for 742k
Sky Living’s supernatural drama series Bedlam returned for a second run and managed to boost its live ratings by nearly half a million viewers.
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RatingsLewis top for recording
ITV1 detective drama Lewis topped the consolidated raintgs chart with more than a million time-shifting viewing.
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RatingsHistory goes unrecorded
BBC4’s Restoration history series Harlots, Housewives And Heroines is clearly something to watch immediately, for its recording is relatively small but its numbers are decent.
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RatingsCurious lift for C&I Network
Crime & Investigation Network recorded an unusual spike in PVR viewers for a doc about curious deaths. Elsewhere, Lewis was top dog, The Voice UK recovered some respectability, Silk beat itself and Hart of Dixie made its mark.