All Ratings articles – Page 401
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RatingsBig egg takes some beating
Peering at a Salvador Dali painting in an art gallery one day, I felt the heat of embarrassment blush my cheeks as my tummy rumbled like a howling beast, much to the hushed cognoscenti’s irritation.
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RatingsStrictly Gives BBC a lift
In a weekend the broadcaster would rather forget, dance show beats all bar ITV1’s I’m A Celeb One afternoon in a quiet week in broadcasting, I strolled past one of my local cinemas.
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RatingsGreat Continental Railway Journeys topples Hunted
Michael Portillo’s Great Continental Railway Journeys steamed ahead of axed drama Hunted – as EastEnders pulled in its lowest BBC1 audience in more than a year.
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RatingsThe Hour returns to record low ratings
The Hour returned to BBC2 with its lowest audience on record - as England’s defeat in Stockholm took the primetime honours.
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RatingsThe Paradise bows out with 4.7m
The Paradise shut up shop with its biggest audience in three weeks - but failed to compete with I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.
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RatingsNewsnight beaten by The Agenda
The scandal swirling around Newsnight failed to translate into significant viewing figures as it was easily beaten by a record performance from ITV1’s The Agenda.
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RatingsI'm a Celebrity dips to three-year low
ITV1 reality series I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! returned to its lowest audience in three years, while other channels benefited from the lack of Downton Abbey.
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RatingsInbetweeners Movie lures 3.3m to C4
Channel 4 trounced BBC1 with the network premiere of The Inbetweeners Movie last night, with 2.8m (13.8%) from 9pm, with +1 taking its total to 3.3m.
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Ratings007 puts BBC2 in driving seat
BBC2 celebrated the understated launch of a new Bond film with a Top Gear special in an appropriately stunty schedule in which it also stripped icebergs and autumn. While smarting at the fate of the Jewish mum competition, Channel 4 can take comfort from the redoubtable Grand Designs.
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RatingsBeware the grizzly bear
One of the most chanted refrains emanating from the US elections was the Obama camp’s “four more years”. In the even more ruthless world of American TV, it’s often a more plaintive “four more episodes”.
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RatingsCBBC conjures up slot winner
It’s not Harry Potter battling the alien bursting out of John Hurt’s stomach, but CBBC’s tale of aliens and wizards began nicely.
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RatingsDownton finishes on top
Drama series finale tops table for ITV1, while BBC1’s Strictly pulls in 2 million more than X Factor
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RatingsBBC wins audience vote for US election coverage
Coverage of the US Election boosted late night audiences for BBC1 and ITV1 as well as news channels – with BBC1 reaching a peak of 880k viewers.
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RatingsC4 Gabriel Byrne drama starts with 1m
Channel 4 political drama Secret State, inspired by A Very British Coup, intrigued more than 1m viewers during the first episode on Wednesday night.
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RatingsHeston beats Dara but falls short of slot average
The launch of Heston Blumenthal’s Channel 4 series fell more than half a million below slot average on Tuesday, but beat Dara O’Briain’s new BBC2 science show.
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RatingsMasterChef: the Professionals serves up 2.3m
MasterChef: the Professionals returned on Monday with its lowest series launch audience since the show moved into primetime in 2009.
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RatingsBGT's Jonathan and Charlotte attract 3.8m
An ITV documentary following a Britain’s Got Talent opera duo drew 3.8m on Friday, while Derren Brown held steady on Channel 4 for the conclusion of Apocalypse.
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RatingsStrictly beats X Factor by 2.4m
Strictly Come Dancing opened up its biggest ratings gap on The X Factor in six years on Saturday - as the ITV1 show notched up its lowest live audience since 2007.
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RatingsDownton Abbey finale draws 9.8m
ITV1’s Downton Abbey’s bowed out with its biggest overnight audience of the series on Sunday – but The X Factor’s marginal recovery was not enough to hold off Strictly Come Dancing.
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RatingsYoung Apprentice fails to recruit 4m
Lord Sugar’s final hunt for a protégé in the Young Apprentice got underway with an audience over 200,000 down on last year’s opener.