All Non PSB ratings articles – Page 49
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RatingsPrinces attract 4.1m to ITV1
ITV1’s Tonight special with Princes William and Harry delivered 4.1m (21.6%) at 7.30pm last night, but the early stages of Denmark v Japan on BBC1 proved a bigger draw.
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RatingsLennon Naked strips away competition
BBC4’s latest biopic Lennon Naked pulled in 792,900 (4%) from 10.30pm last night.
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RatingsGlee dances off with 1.8m
Glee ended its 22-week run on E4 with 1.8m (7.4%) last night, capping a strong run for the import, which has consistently scored ratings above 1m.
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RatingsSpartacus slashed by More Talent
Spartacus continued to perform well for Bravo last night, beating Sky 1’s finale of Fringe and a new run of Smallville on E4 – but was slashed by ITV2’s Britain’s Got Talent spin-off show.
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RatingsCowell departure boosts Idol finale
Simon Cowell’s final appearance on American Idol gave ITV2 a boost in last night’s ratings, as more than 500,000 tuned in to the finale of the US show.
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RatingsSpartacus skewers Bravo rivals
Bravo scored its highest ever audience last night with saucy sword and sandals series Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
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RatingsNaked Office bares all to 400,000
Publicity for Virgin 1 series The Naked Office, with newspapers splashing on pictures of nudist commuters filmed on the tube, helped the channel to attract almost 400,000 viewers to the show last night.
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RatingsElection coverage draws 6.7m
As the UK woke up this morning to a hung Parliament, early figures indicate that around 6.7m viewers followed last night’s election coverage - with BBC1 winning the biggest audience.
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RatingsStrike Back outguns American Idol
Sky 1’s action drama Chris Ryan’s Strike Back blasted off with 398,400 viewers (1.7%) at 9pm last night, edging out ITV2’s American Idol – but BBC4 grabbed the spoils from 10pm.
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RatingsMore4 finds 190,000 with Erasing David
Erasing David, a new documentary feature about Britain’s surveillance culture, performed strongly for More4 last night.
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RatingsSky election debate tops 4m
The second live leaders’ debate delivered more than 4m viewers across Sky News, BBC News and Sky 3 last night.
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RatingsTraffic Cops beats The Bill
BBC1’s Traffic Cops led the way at 9pm last night with 4.2m (17.3%), ousting their fictional Sun Hill counterparts in a night that saw rival channels struggle to reach 3m in the key peaktime slot.
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RatingsBlitz Street blasts off with 1.8m
Channel 4’s new factual series Blitz Street landed with a total audience of 1.8m last night, but was eclipsed by the unstoppable rise of US high school musical drama Glee on sister channel E4.
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RatingsV helps Syfy inch ahead of ITV2 and E4
Rebooted sci-fi drama V made its UK debut with 325,000 viewers last night on NBCU’s rebranded Syfy.
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RatingsSky 3D football attracts 200,000
Sky has revealed that 200,000 viewers watched its 3D broadcast of Sunday’s FA Premier League match between Manchester Utd and Blackburn Rovers.
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RatingsCanoe Man makes a splash on BBC4
BBC4 drama Canoe Man drew more than 800,000 viewers last night, more than three times the average audience for the channel’s midweek 9pm slot.
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NewsDating in the Dark to return
Living has ordered a second run of the series where singletons literally go on blind dates - Dating In The Dark.
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RatingsCougar Town snares half a million
Courteney Cox’s new comedy Cougar Town debuted on Living with 584,300 (2.4%) last night, helping the channel to beat all of the main digital competitors bar ITV2.
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RatingsKatie Price beats BBC2 and C4
Katie Price’s ITV2 reality show scooped its highest audience to date last night, beating BBC2 and Channel 4 in the process.
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NewsFive HD to launch on Sky
Five has confirmed plans for an HD channel on Sky this summer – just days after ruling out launching one on Freeview on cost grounds.