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RatingsFortitude launch captures 700k
THURSDAY: Sky Atlantic’s heavily-promoted drama Fortitude made a successful debut, securing an overnight audience of over 700,000 viewers.
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RatingsMidsomer eats into Wolf Hall
WEDNESDAY: ITV’s Midsomer Murders returned for its 17th series with an audience that took a bite out of Wolf Hall, which lost 1m viewers.
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RatingsAuschwitz doc moves 1.2m
TUESDAY: BBC2’s documentary Touched By Auschwitz fell just short of the channel’s slot average on Holocaust Memorial Day.
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RatingsBroadchurch hits halfway point with 5.6m
MONDAY: ITV’s Broadchurch hit its halfway point with its lowest ever audience, but leapfrogged BBC1’s Silent Witness to win the 9pm slot.
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RatingsTop 100 network programmes
ITV’s Broadchurch loses 1.4 million viewers in head-to-head clash with BBC1’s Silent Witness
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RatingsTop Gear drives off with 5.3m
SUNDAY: BBC2’s Top Gear drove off with 5.3m for its first episode of a new run, narrowly below last year’s launch, while ITV’s Mr Selfridge returned to its lowest ever audience.
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RatingsJonathan Ross returns with 2.3m
SATURDAY: ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show returned at an earlier time but fell well short of slot average while The Voice continued to dominate primetime on BBC1.
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RatingsTop 50 Non-PSB shows
Sports News HQ’s Gillette Soccer Saturday achieved 554,000/5% from midday, complete with its own fire alarm evacuation.
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RatingsTop 30 multichannel programmes
ITV3’s second highest-rated show of the week was Doc Martin (1 million/5%) at 7pm on Saturday, followed at 8pm by its highest-rated, Midsomer Murders (1.4 million/6%).
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5)
C4’s single doc Angry White And Proud beat slot average by 1 million (Weds, 9pm)
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RatingsThe top 10 shows of 2014: by genre
Click to view the consolidated ratings data for the top 10 shows of last year by channel
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RatingsCucumber pulls in 1.2m
THURSDAY: Russell T Davies’ drama Cucumber failed to sparkle for Channel 4, finishing in last place in the 9pm slot.
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RatingsThe top 100 shows of 2014
Click to view the consolidated ratings data for the top 100 shows of last year.
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RatingsWolf Hall debuts with 3.9m
WEDNESDAY: Wolf Hall made a regal debut for BBC2, pulling in the channel’s biggest overnight audience for an episode in a drama series in a decade.
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RatingsBBC1 rises to the challenge
Bake Off ‘s move helped BBC1 grow its audience in a year when overall TV viewing dipped and ITV suffered a decline in share.
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RatingsDesi Rascals fails to hit 90k
TUESDAY: Sky Living’s structured reality format Desi Rascals launched with fewer than 90,000 viewers as BBC2’s one-off The Eichmann Show enthralled 1.2m.
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RatingsCatastrophe kicks off with 800k
MONDAY: Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe opened up with just under 1m viewers as Broadchurch dipped by a further 400,000 viewers.
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RatingsFoyle’s War bows out on a low
SUNDAY: The final episode of Foyle’s War struggled in a strong 8pm slot, as ITV’s latest entertainment format Get Your Act Together launched with fewer than 3m viewers.