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RatingsDemographic Focus
Explore the ratings breakdown demographically across the main terrestrial and multichannel broadcasters for 1-7 August.
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RatingsTop 100 network programmes
Find out who topped the ratings league table for network programming from August 8 - 14 and browse the top 100
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RatingsC5's Big Brother debut is ratings smash
THURSDAY: The high profile launch of Big Brother on Channel 5 attracted the station’s third biggest audience ever.
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RatingsThe Pendle Witch Child enchants 424,000
WEDNESDAY: The Pendle Witch Child intrigued an audience of 424,100 (1.8%) for BBC4 lifting the audience for the slot.
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RatingsJK Rowling's family history draws 6.1m
WEDNESDAY: Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? helped the show to its biggest audience in a year.
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RatingsNation tunes in to news channels
If you were a Martian landing on Earth and took a look at the Digital Networks Top Programmes list (because let’s face it, you would) you might think we were all news junkies. And if our visitor saw The Borgias too, he/she might also wonder what history narrative we thought ...
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RatingsFish and homes win out
Dragons moved, fish returned, hospitals went, home restoration made its point and all featured in a week of few biggies but where some stalwarts remained, stal (or maybe that’s wart?).
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RatingsRiots leave ratings in a spin
Word has it that the Kaiser Chiefs are quickly penning a sequel to their hit I Predict a Riot to be called ‘I Predict A Calming Down’; it’ll be played on brooms and with hoovers. Well, okay, they’re not. But after one of the more surreal and frankly tragic ...
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RatingsSeven Dwarves sizes up 2.5m
TUESDAY: Channel 4’s new documentary series following the lives of seven dwarf actors during the Christmas pantomime season attracted a sizeable audience.
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RatingsBBC3's Wilfred befriends 640,000
TUESDAY: BBC3 series Wilfred, with Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood, kicked off with a strong audience on its first outing.
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RatingsOnly Connect unites 600,000
MONDAY: BBC4’s audience almost doubled with over 600,000 viewers tuning in for the return of hit gameshow Only Connect.
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RatingsConcrete Circus outperformed by competition
MONDAY: Channel 4’s documentary following four of the world’s best urban sports stars was beaten by a film on Channel 5 and BBC2’s Horizon.
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RatingsOcean Giants nets 5.5m
SUNDAY: A three-part series shedding light on the earth’s largest marine mammals launched with an audience of nearly 5.5m for BBC1.
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RatingsPremier League return scores with viewers
SATURDAY: The return of Premier League football helped Match of the Day to an audience of more than 4.3m as live games scored for Sky and ESPN.
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RatingsThe Borgias brings glory to Sky Atlantic
SATURDAY: Sky Atlantic’s HBO historical drama The Borgias debuted with an audience over three times higher than its slot average.
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RatingsC4 Banksy premiere fails to draw a crowd
SATURDAY: Channel 4’s premiere of Banksy documentary, Exit through the Gift Shop, attracted a below average audience to the Saturday night slot.
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RatingsDavid Starkey controversy draws nearly 1m
FRIDAY: David Starkey’s controversial comments on Newsnight helped the current affairs show to a peak of nearly a million viewers.
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RatingsQuestion Time riots special draws 3.5m
THURSDAY: Question Time drew its second biggest audience of the year with a special debate on the breakout of riots across the UK.
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RatingsAlibi has Proof of a record-breaker
UKTV-owned Alibi has arrested its biggest ever audience with new US crime series Body of Proof.
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RatingsTrollied debut is wobble-free
The summer, for all its mad weirdness, can be a place to deliver audiences - as Sky 1 discovered when Trollied rolled in very much unlike a supermarket trolly: in a straight line and avoiding ploughing into the baked bean display.