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RATINGS - Testing times for ITV as BBC 1 gains ground.
BBC 1's glossy espionage series Spooks managed to roundly sabotage ITV 1's legal drama starring Amanda
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RatingsChampions League final ends strong European season for ITV 1
ITV 1's live coverage of the Champions' League final last night got a larger audience than last week's FA Cup Final on BBC 1, writes Jon Rogers
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RatingsTame start to The Experiment
BBC 2's version of the notorious 1971 Stanford prison experiment failed to make an arresting spectacle last night (14 May), writes Jon Rogers
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RatingsSpooks makes impressive debut
BBC 1's espionage drama Spooks made a strong debut last night (Monday 13 May), continuing BBC 1's peaktime ratings renaissance, writes Jon Rogers
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RatingsOz and the boys build BBC 1 a Sunday night stronghold
BBC 1 made it three Sunday night wins on the trot last night (Sunday 12 May) as the head-to-head drama battle between Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and ITV 1's The Forsyte Saga
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Ratings - BBC 1 wins the battle of the classic revivals.
The return of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet after 16 years this week helped BBC 1 to its
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Blue Planet sinks football
BBC1's groundbreaking documentary beats Champions League coverage but reduced audience proves peak-time football on ITV1 can work
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Industry slammed over 'lack of guts'
Ratings pressure on controllers is stifling creativity and the guts and editorial vision they need to commission innovative programmes, a panel of leading industry figures has said.Speaking at a Broadcast magazine
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C4 NEWS FIGURES UP
Channel 4 News audiences have grown by 19 per cent since the programme revamped its studio in January 1999, according to Barb figures released by C4. The average audience for Channel
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RATINGS - Changing Rooms changed back after viewers leave
The great Richard and Judy defection from ITV to Channel 4 provides the perfect excuse to look more closely at ITV's daytime audience share. In the week ending 29 April it
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ITV Murders BBC's Children on Sunday
ITV's decision to pull two-part thriller Where There's Smoke on Sunday night (10 September) proved to be a wise move, as replacement Midsomer Murders beat new BBC 1 drama Other People's Children, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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People Versus outwits BBC's repeat force
Celador's latest ITV gameshow The People Versus had a promising start on Sunday (12 August), but only in the face of a BBC 1 repeat of When Changing Rooms met Ground Force, writes Simon Ellery.
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Overnight Ratings - ITV and BBC in weekend viewing battle
BBC 1 and ITV battled it out last weekend, with Vic and Bob winning its Saturday (17 March) slot for the BBC and Sarah Lancashire on ITV pulling in the crowds on Sunday (18 March), writes Paul Donovan.
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Ratings Analysis - A time to laugh
If timing is essential to comedy, so scheduling is essential to TV comedy. Having struggled with its sitcoms, ITV could learn a great deal from the BBC's habit-forming policies.
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C5 still struggling at 19.00
Channel 5 director of programmes Dawn Airey has admitted she has not had the 'breakthrough' show she was looking for in the revamped 19.00 weekday slot unveiled earlier this year, writes