All Ratings articles – Page 413
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RatingsDeferred Bard pegged back
When sport is live, nobody, not even the Bard, is sacred – as Henry IV found out this week.
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RatingsTennis serves up a winner
BBC comes out on top as Wimbledon throws schedules into disarray, while ITV has fool’s Gold
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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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RatingsCase Sensitive returns with 4m
The return of ITV1 detective drama Case Sensitive failed to match the launch of the first series - but held on to share to win the 9pm slot, as the concluding episode of BBC1’s OAP experiment dipped slightly.
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RatingsApprentice stars below par with OAP experiment
The Apprentice stars Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford helped BBC1’s The Town That Never Retired win the 9pm slot – although it was almost 2m viewers down on the slot average.
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RatingsMillionaire edges out Line of Duty
BBC2 drama Line of Duty held its total audience of more than 3m impressively, but was pipped to the post at 9pm by Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
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RatingsAdam Buxton's Bug launches to 64k
Sky Atlantic’s new comedy series featuring Adam Buxton put in a disappointing first outing attracting only half the slot average.
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RatingsMillionaire returns with 3.9m
ITV1’s first non-celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in two years proved too strong for the second part of BBC1 drama Blackout, which lost 1.5m viewers.
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RatingsEpisodes bows out with 1m
The finale of Episodes posted the show’s highest ratings in three weeks, but remained well below last year’s figures.
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RatingsWallander returns with 6.41m
Wallander returned to BBC1 with its biggest audience on record.
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RatingsSinbad sets sail with 1m
Sky1’s new family drama Sinbad set sail with an audience three times bigger than the channel’s slot average.
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RatingsSuperstar debuts with 3m
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new ITV1 musical talent show Superstar was beaten by a repeat of 1984 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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RatingsAndy Murray Wimbledon final defeat nets 16.9m
Andy Murray’s historic Wimbledon final served up a peak audience of 16.92m for BBC1 – the tournament’s second biggest audience of all time.
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RatingsLet’s Get Gold slow out the blocks
ITV1’s new sport entertainment show Let’s Get Gold stumbled at the first hurdle – beaten by BBC1 pensioner doc When I Get Older.
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RatingsDynamo reappears with 1.2m
Dynamo: Magician Impossible returned for a new series on Watch and conjured up the highest ever overnights for the UKTV-owned channel.
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Ratings4Seven launches with 23k
Channel 4’s new repeats station, 4Seven, intrigued just over 20,000 viewers at launch and peaked with 150,000 later in the evening with Undercover Boss.
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RatingsMidsomer repeat beats BBC1 pensioner doc
A repeat of Midsomer Murders stuck the knife into BBC1’s pensioner documentary When I Get Older, as Andy Murray’s quarter-final Wimbledon win peaked with 7.1m.
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RatingsCop and ball story for BBC2
BBC2’s schedules were rent with Wimbledon’s capriciousness but amid it all, its new drama began splendidly. Channel 4 sending Gordon Ramsay to jail worked well too.
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RatingsIt’s smiles all round for Sky
Sky Atlantic’s comedy night launched strongly with new shows from Alan Partridge, Armando Iannucci and Kathy Burke.
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RatingsITV takes a beating at footie
BBC outplays ITV with its coverage of the Euro 2012 final to lift yet another ratings trophy.