All Ratings articles – Page 490
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RatingsSky1 holds Louis Spence audience
WEDNESDAY: New Sky1 series Louie Spence’s Showbusiness managed to hold its audience on its second outing, with just a small dip in viewers.
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RatingsMichel Roux serves up 1.64m
WEDNESDAY: Michel Roux Jr’s new BBC2 series on the art of service failed to impress, as Channel 5 beat Channel 4 at 8pm with a Second World War documentary.
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RatingsNew year, new-look C4
Life after Big Brother was always going to be difficult; after this week Channel 4 might be thinking that life without it makes the 12 labours of Hercules look like boiling a kettle.
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RatingsA break from the big brands
With no brand extension sitting at the top of the table, it’s an opportunity for the rest. Most importantly, it means I can write words such as ‘oche’, ‘Ashes’, ‘pixelated’ and ‘Midsomer’ in a purely professional capacity.
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RatingsTV returns to the real world
After the cocoon of Christmas, the new year restored some normality to the schedules.
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RatingsBBC3's Snog... breaks ratings record
TUESDAY: BBC3 ‘make-under’ show Snog, Marry, Avoid? drew its biggest ratings to date as it returned with a double bill.
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RatingsRatings slump for return of Taggart
TUESDAY: The return of Scottish drama Taggart failed to arrest a big audience for ITV as BBC1’s Silent Witness drew more than double the number of viewers.
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RatingsStrong debut for BBC2 comedy Episodes
MONDAY: Episodes, the new BBC2 comedy starring Matt LeBlanc, drew nearly 1.9m on its debut – but was beaten by the return of Shameless on Channel 4.
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RatingsGlee returns with best ever performance
MONDAY: E4 was dancing from the rafters as the return of US series Glee drew the show’s biggest audience to date.
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RatingsFalling viewer numbers hit BBC2
BBC2 had the biggest drop in audience share out of the five terrestrial television channels during 2010.
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RatingsDancing on Ice helps ITV to bumper night
SUNDAY: The return of Dancing on Ice and Wild at Heart helped ITV1 pull in big audiences on Sunday evening, but there was a low key start for Adrian Chiles’ new chat show.
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RatingsDerren Brown doc conjures 1.7m
SATURDAY: A documentary celebrating a decade of Derren Brown’s illusions conjured up an audience of nearly 1.7m for Channel 4 - while BBC1’s The Magicians held its audience.
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RatingsITV scores with FA Cup weekend
Manchester United and Liverpool’s eagerly anticipated FA Cup third round clash drew a massive peak audience of 7.6m in a big week for ITV sport, which included highlights of England’s Ashes victory.
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RatingsChristmas catch-up figures revealed
Consolidated ratings have revealed that millions recorded heavyweight shows including EastEnders and Coronation Street – but also boosted figures for new comedy and drama. Stephen Price reports.
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RatingsHowzat for a late night hit?
It’s been so cold that a whole nation’s pipes burst, but across the seven seas in an Antipodean summer an urn was magnificently retained.
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RatingsA trip down memory lane
Apparently, the way to the nation’s hearts is to evoke memories of power cuts and only three TV channels - i.e. the 1970s.
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RatingsSinking of the Laconia draws 2.9m
THURSDAY: BBC2’s wartime submarine drama threatened to sink Martin Clunes’ manta ray mission on ITV1.
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RatingsChristmas line-up deja vu
After a Christmas Day of programmes strikingly similar to last year’s, a battle for the family ensued
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RatingsBritain’s Fattest Man draws 3m
WEDNESDAY: A documentary on Britain’s most obese man helped serve up a total of nearly 3m viewers across Channel 4 and C4+1.
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RatingsEastEnders cot death plot draws 10.7m
TUESDAY: EastEnders’ controversial cot death storyline drew a massive 10.7m viewers to BBC1 on Tuesday - one of the soap’s highest audiences in nearly 12 months.