All Ratings articles – Page 347
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RatingsBenefits Street biggest C4 series since 2011
Benefits Street lost some of its shine for its finale on Monday, but still became Channel 4’s biggest series in three years.
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RatingsSalamander starts steadily
Belgian crime drama Salamander got underway for BBC4 on Saturday with an audience in line with The Bridge opener.
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RatingsDanny Boyle’s Babylon arrests 1.6m
Channel 4’s Danny Boyle-directed comedy drama pilot Babylon failed to arrest a big audience on Sunday - as The Musketeers continued to lose viewers.
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RatingsWinter Olympics curtain raiser draws over 3m
The Winter Olympics opening ceremony skated off with a 3.4m peak on Friday - as Sky 1 launched Lee Mack’s Duck Quacks Don’t Echo to almost 360k viewers.
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RatingsAntiques have value for BBC1
More than 111 million people watched the Super Bowl in the US. I’m not a great fan of knickknacks, but the idea of watching a big bowl seems preferable to me than sitting through the seemingly wilfully obtuse game that is American Football.
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RatingsFew Looking at Sky Atlantic
Football is no stranger to hyperbole. Every manager’s utterance is poured over for significance, while all tackles, free kicks and hairdos are analysed ad infinitum.
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RatingsBridge closes on a high
In a slightly surreal moment at a Radio Times do last week, the Danish ambassador received his copy of the magazine’s cover with the star of Borgen on it.
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RatingsTop Gear races to the summit
This week, Top Gear returned to show Benefits Street who’s boss.
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RatingsBBC sword saga loses its edge
I once interrupted a big knobs’ meeting, holding the week’s schedule aloft.
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RatingsPound Shop Wars fights off competition
BBC1’s return to Pound Shop Wars proved profitable on Thursday, as the documentary pulled in nearly 5.5m viewers.
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RatingsInside No. 9 debuts with 1.1m
BBC2’s new comedy series Inside No. 9 launched to a solid 1.1m viewers last night but the channel found greater success with documentary Royal Cousins At War.
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RatingsThe Taste drops to fresh low
Channel 5 out-foxed Channel 4 for a second consecutive night on Tuesday at 9pm, as its Age-Gap Love doc helped force The Taste to a new low.
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RatingsThe Jump vaulted by C5's Big Benefits Row
The finale of Channel 4’s The Jump lost out in the race with Channel 5’s Benefits Street-inspired debate on the welfare system on Monday.
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RatingsThe Last Leg back above 1m
Silent Witness bowed out with a series average of 5.5m viewers on Friday, as The Last Leg returned with a strong performance.
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RatingsBest Top Gear debut in three years
Top Gear drove off with its biggest series debut audience in three years on Sunday, as The Jump dropped to a series low.
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RatingsThe Voice UK hits high note
The Voice UK turned up the volume with its best performance of the series on Saturday, as England’s Six Nations debut tackled nearly 6m viewers.
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RatingsBBC’s Midwife really delivers
It’s winter and if in the hearth there burns just a candle, then the dear old television set compensates with many a warming treat.
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RatingsOld Fools are the best
Daves of the world, no matter what their actual names, will this week have felt a pang of sadness stab at their heart with the news of Roger Lloyd-Pack’s passing.
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RatingsPast treasures fail to shine
Rococo or Ancient Egyptian treasures? The votes are in and (if it existed anywhere outside of my head) the most esoteric poll ever delivered the ancients the spoils.
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RatingsSeasonal hits for BBC and C4
The only winter watching I want to do is the sort that involves waving it off at a bus stop, followed by anxious glances down the road searching for the garlanded spring bus.