All Ratings articles – Page 343

  • Death Row
    Ratings

    BBC3 prison doc doubles

    2014-03-28T17:22:00Z

    At my school, the careers advice service ranked in the education hierarchy somewhere below the upkeep of general sanitation.

  • Lambing Live
    Ratings

    Babies deliver on BBC2 & C4

    2014-03-28T17:19:00Z

    This week, BBC2 launched a sort of farming version of Call The Midwife, with more bleating, less screaming and a fear of mint sauce.

  • Sport Relief
    Ratings

    Charity pays off for BBC1

    2014-03-28T17:16:00Z

    I was a cub scout for just a week. Consequently, I missed the bit about being prepared, always.

  • Channel 4: Live From Space
    Ratings

    C4 scores big with space

    2014-03-28T17:14:00Z

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy states, boldly but not inaccurately, that space is big. Really big.

  • Believe
    Ratings

    Believe opens well for Watch

    2014-03-28T10:21:00Z

    Watch’s heavily-marketed Alfonso Cuarón drama Believe launched with a strong audience on Thursday, as MasterChef grew its ratings.

  • Dead Famous DNA
    Ratings

    Dead Famous DNA locates 1m

    2014-03-27T12:16:00Z

    Dead Famous DNA, Channel 4’s attempt to reveal more about the genetics of deceased famous people, didn’t have the chemistry to connect with a big audience on Wednesday.

  • Shetland
    Ratings

    Shetland stutters as Doll & Em ends on low

    2014-03-26T10:23:00Z

    Shetland sunk to its worst performance yet on Tuesday, as Sky Living’s Emily Mortimer comedy Doll & Em bowed out on a series low.

  • Rev
    Ratings

    Viewers lose faith in Rev

    2014-03-25T10:22:00Z

    Big Talk-produced clerical comedy Rev lost nearly a million viewers from 2011’s second series debut on Monday.

  • Louis Theroux's LA Stories: City of Dogs
    Ratings

    Louis Theroux in form for LA trip

    2014-03-24T12:50:00Z

    Louis Theroux’s LA Stories was his best performing doc in two years for BBC2 on Sunday.

  • The Voice UK
    Ratings

    The Voice UK live round draws low

    2014-03-24T11:26:00Z

    The Voice UK’s audience slumped to a series low for its first live round of the series on Saturday.

  • Sport Relief
    Ratings

    Sport Relief peaks with 10m

    2014-03-24T10:33:00Z

    BBC1 charity extravaganza Sport Relief raised over £50m for good causes on Friday as it gained 2m more viewers from its previous outing two years ago.

  • Davina: Beyond Breaking Point for Sport Relief
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    Davina McCall challenge draws 3.7m

    2014-03-21T12:40:00Z

    Davina McCall’s Sport Relief challenge won the 9pm race on Thursday, but it was Channel 4’s access film on Rolls-Royce that was the surprise package.

  • Living In Space
    Ratings

    Lap of honour for Channel 4

    2014-03-20T17:52:00Z

    BBC2’s weekly primetime share was almost 8%, helped enormously by Top Gear: Burma Special: 6.1 million/23% share is a huge audience, more than twice that of the next show in the table, and it would be foolish to argue against it.

  • Ja’Mie: Private School Girl
    Ratings

    BBC3 fails to make impact

    2014-03-20T17:50:00Z

    Plenty has already been said about BBC3, but should its shows be in the top 30 consolidated shows?

  • Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
    Ratings

    C5 beats Sky in jet doc battle

    2014-03-20T17:45:00Z

    It’s interesting to see channels scramble their rapid-reaction resources to keep pace with the emerging mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.

  • Great Canal Journeys
    Ratings

    Great result for More 4

    2014-03-20T17:40:00Z

    Football’s a regular top draw in multichannel and this week was no exception, with the clash between Manchester United and Liverpool on Sunday dominating the table with 1.8 million viewers.

  • Coronation Street
    Ratings

    Soaps still clean up in ratings

    2014-03-20T17:37:00Z

    The number 21 million weighed on my mind this week. Why? I’ll give you a clue: it’s from a faded Guardian cutting from February 1994, just over 20 years ago.

  • Line of Duty
    Ratings

    Line of Duty bows out on high

    2014-03-20T11:07:00Z

    BBC2 enjoyed a good night on Wednesday as Line of Duty ended with a series high audience and Twenty Twelve successor W1A got underway with 1.6m.

  • Hair
    Ratings

    BBC3’s Hair hits high

    2014-03-19T10:20:00Z

    BBC3’s Steve Jones-fronted hairdressing competition Hair reached its quarter final stage with a series high on Tuesday, as Shetland shed nearly 300,000 viewers.

  • The Widower
    Ratings

    The Widower murders Silk

    2014-03-18T10:22:00Z

    Jeff Pope’s latest ITV drama The Widower got off to solid start, murdering competition from BBC1’s Silk on Monday evening.