All Ratings articles – Page 346
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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.
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RatingsA Scandi boost for Midsomer
Down through the ages, the UK has often found itself smitten with a fad that promised adventure or riches.
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RatingsBrit Awards falls to eight-year low
The Brit Awards walked away with its lowest audience since at least 2006 on Wednesday.
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RatingsDoll & Em fails to muster 100k
Sky Living’s Emily Mortimer comedy Doll & Em got off to a shaky start on Tuesday – as ITV’s Champion’s League coverage hit a near 12-month high.
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RatingsC4 trumps C5 in benefits battle
In the battle of the live debates on Monday, Channel 4’s benefits show easily shouted down Channel 5’s immigration row.
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RatingsSplash! finale fails to create waves
Saturday’s Splash! finale gained 1m viewers on last week’s performance, but failed to make as many waves as 2013’s climax.
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RatingsBaftas sink to three year low
The British Academy Film Awards recorded its lowest ratings since 2010 on Sunday.
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RatingsLizzy Yarnold gold sets Olympics high
The BBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics hit its highest peak on Friday for Lizzy Yarnold’s golden dash in the women’s skeleton.
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RatingsBenidorm bows out with 5.8m
Benidorm bowed out on Thursday with its second biggest audience of the series, unseating Inspector George Gently as the top show in the 9pm slot.
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RatingsDCI Banks battles BBC’s War
Among the running and jumping of summer 2012, we grappled with the spelling of Taekwando.
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RatingsMother fails to match geeks
South America is about to be everywhere, what with the Brazil World Cup this year and the Rio Olympics in 2016.
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RatingsDave delivers with Dynamo
If you asked most people who Steven Frayne was, they’d probably stare blankly at you; if you said Dynamo, most would probably recall the magician.
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RatingsTomorrow’s success today
Ardent fans of Scottish League One football still long for one result when Methil’s finest take on the pride of Angus: East Fife 4, Forfar 5.
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RatingsBBC2 skates ahead of ITV
If ever there was a right time to announce the relinquishing of the BBC2 Quill of Control, it would be after news like this: BBC2’s Saturday and Sunday combined all-time share (12%) beat ITV’s (9.8%).
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RatingsLine Of Duty audience halves
Line Of Duty returned to BBC2 on Wednesday with an audience around half the size of the series one debut.
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RatingsTroy magics up 800k for E4
Troy, E4’s latest street magician, opened strongly on Tuesday, beating competition from BBC2 in the slot.