All Ratings articles – Page 333
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RatingsJonathan Creek murders the competition
BBC1’s Jonathan Creek returned for its first full series in a decade with 6.3m viewers on Friday – more than three times the audience of ITV’s new comedy drama Edge of Heaven.
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RatingsThe Voice UK takes a tumble
The Voice UK’s audience took a tumble as it entered its battle rounds on Saturday, but it still managed to fight off Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.
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RatingsSky 1’s Stella holds steady
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Marlon Brando’s bad boy Stanley stands at the foot of the steamy New Orleans apartment’s stairs and screams “Hey Stella!”. Stella’s languid descent ends in a slightly sweaty tryst; Romeo and Juliet it ain’t.
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RatingsLow launch for Moone Boy
As a nipper, I lived opposite Cardiff City striker and local hero Johnny Vincent, and then in Northampton in the same street as cricketing wizard Mushtaq Mohammad. So when Sky 1’s Moones stumbled across Irish World Cup hero Patrick ‘Packie’ Bonner’s house while on holiday, I understood.
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RatingsKnox doubles with repeats
One day in 1989, I came home to my shabby flat and even shabbier flatmates to be confronted with the sight of a gently listing bin spewing its contents, mostly the previous night’s curry, across the living room floor.
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RatingsThe Taste falls to new low
The sliding-about-a-lot has ended and GB won four medals, the best return since 1924; the year Mallory and Irving were lost trying to ascend Everest for the first time.
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RatingsInspector George Gently ends on high
Inspector George Gently bowed out on a series high, locking out competition from the drama at White Hart Lane on ITV.
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RatingsBrits not a hit with viewers
Where was the parent-jarring madness? Gone, it seems, are the days of rock stars mooning or machine-gunning on the Brit Awards stage, or an anarchist band hurling water over the deputy prime minister.
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RatingsInside No 9, First Dates and Suspects dip to lows
Inside No 9, First Dates and Suspects dipped to series lows on Wednesday - while Outnumbered returned to form.
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RatingsMixed fortunes in multichannel
Over the Valentine’s weekend, more than 5 million US viewers reportedly watched the second series of Netflix’s House Of Cards.
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RatingsStrippers pulls 1.5m to C4
Channel 4’s three-part doc Strippers teased an audience of 1.5m on Tuesday as its latest Kirstie Allsopp series also started strongly.
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RatingsSilk locked up by DCI Banks
BBC1’s legal drama Silk returned with its lowest series debut ratings to date on Monday and was locked out by competition from DCI Banks.
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RatingsWinter Olympics climax draws 3m
The Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony on Sunday outperfomed the Opening Ceremony following Britain’s haul of medals.
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RatingsViewers turn away from Edge of Heaven
ITV’s B&B comedy drama Edge of Heaven failed to welcome 3m guests as it was flattened by the Six Nations Rugby clash on Friday.
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RatingsThe Voice out-sings Saturday Night Takeaway
The return of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway was unable to dampen The Voice UK, which was the highest-rated show on Saturday.
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RatingsThe Smoke lights up Sky 1
Sky 1’s new firefighter drama The Smoke got off to a smouldering start on Thursday, engulfing an audience of just under 400,000.
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RatingsBleak winter lifts ratings
It may just be an of-the-moment thing, but in this most miserable, annoying, bleak and dank of winters, where chinks of cheeriness are obscured by cold, grey swirling waters, quite a few TV series are enjoying their best of times.
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RatingsSlow start for Bond drama
As a nipper, one of my favourite jokes was to go around saying my name was Bond – Brooke Bond; ‘like the tea’, I would always add anxiously, as the silence yawned on.
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RatingsRock fans like the ‘80s best
One day in the year 2095, a child wired for music intravenously will ask in wonder: ‘Grandad, what’s an MP3 player?’.
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RatingsOlympics in winning form
The nation is gripped by the sliding about of athletes, often in lycra and occasionally with brooms.