All Ratings articles – Page 339
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RatingsBBC2 rises to the Challenge
Some years ago, while snowbound at a friend’s house in Switzerland, we played Trivial Pursuit.
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RatingsLucan biopic draws 4m
ITV’s biopic on Lord Lucan, the playboy aristocrat who vanished in the 1970s after his children’s nanny was murdered, made a solid start on Wednesday.
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RatingsPanorama Comic Relief pulls in 1.7m
Panorama’s investigation into Comic Relief informed 1.7m viewers on Tuesday, just below the average for the 10.35pm slot.
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RatingsLiberty of London sheds 700,000 viewers
Channel 4’s department store doc Liberty of London lost 35% of its audience on Monday – as The Royal Variety Performance shed a million viewers.
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RatingsRobbie gig entertains almost 5m
Robbie Williams live swing performance at the Palladium performed relatively well for BBC1 on a quiet Friday night.
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RatingsI’m a Celebrity bows out on three-year high
Sunday’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! final was the show’s highest-rated climax since 2010 as Kian Egan was crowned king of the jungle.
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RatingsX Factor semi-final outshines 2012
The X Factor semi-final outperformed last year’s outing, but was still easily beaten by a series high for Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday.
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RatingsWild Burma tames C4 Cats
It remains difficult for me to see a polystyrene cup without wanting to pick it up, place it between my teeth and launch into “sitting at my piano the other day”, followed by throwing an imaginary ball into a paper bag.
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RatingsCops crack it for ITV3
Did the comet Ison have the cosmos’s most useless satnav? After 3 million years of travel, its command was: ‘In 1 million miles take the second exit and head for the big, hot yellow thing.’
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RatingsFairytale result for Disney Jr
The big football-centric beasts may be spending the sort of money that would make Croesus blush, and dominating the press in an Alpha sort of way, but sometimes the big news is about a cartoon princess who turns into a mermaid to visit an underwater city. Oh, and tow trucks.
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RatingsLast but not least for BBC1
How on earth did it get to be December? I had weeks, if not months, to do my Christmas shopping and now, suddenly, there are just a handful of days left.
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RatingsDoctor beats all-comers
It’s a bit like the giant spot on an adolescent’s nose that springs up right on cue as the first date approaches: really hard to miss. But just in case you didn’t spot the BBC’s subtle marketing, Doctor Who was 50 on 23 November (though the Doctor himself is rather ...
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RatingsNelson Mandela coverage peaks with 6m for BBC1
BBC1’s coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela was seen by a peak audience of 6.1m on Thursday.
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RatingsFallow ratings for BBC farm shows
Farm Kitchen and Monastery Farm fell to series lows as I’m A Celebrity continued to hoover up viewers on Wednesday.
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RatingsLast Tango no match for I'm A Celeb
Last Tango in Halifax fell to a series low of 4.5m as it struggled against I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! on Tuesday.
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RatingsLiberty of London performs solidly for C4
London department store Liberty opened its doors to 2m viewers on Channel 4 on Monday night.
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RatingsKangaroo Dundee draws 1.6m
Kangaroo Dundee, BBC2’s follow up to a two-part Natural World special earlier this year, failed to put a big bounce in the channel’s ratings on Friday.
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RatingsDoctor Who 50th becomes most-watched drama of 2013
Doctor Who’s 50th anniverary special has passed Downton Abbey to become the most watched TV drama of the year after adding 2.6m in the week after broadcast.
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RatingsMorecambe and Wise boosts BBC2
Morecambe and Wise: The Whole Story added 400,000 viewers from last week, while Channel 4’s Rock Night got off to a quiet start on Sunday.
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RatingsThe Bible opens with 1.3m
Channel 5 drama The Bible opened up with 1.3m on Saturday, seeing off competition in the slot from BBC2’s Mary Poppins special and Charlie Brooker’s look at video games for Channel 4.