All Ratings articles – Page 348
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RatingsNon-PSBs win the day
With exploited Victorian children and sadistic murderers, it’s currently August rather than TS Eliot’s April that is the cruellest month.
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RatingsDragons slay sunday night
Jeremy Paxman’s beard may have captivated the Twitterverse, but if you’d squinted you could imagine him in a doublet slaying monsters with his broadsword, which seems appropriate in the week that the Dragons roared back.
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RatingsWatch hopes for the best
Football’s coming but right now it’s impolite to care as cricket takes the plaudits with more stirring performances.
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RatingsDoc spills BBC’s Blood
While watching the International Space Station glide serenely over our house each night this past week, I couldn’t stop myself muttering “Piiiigs In Space” in homage to the old Muppets sketch.
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RatingsRoyals rule on BBC4
There are an awful lot of kings and queens about at the moment and BBC4 joined in with its tales of the royal boudoir and the equally rambunctious goings-on of the Anglo Saxons and their falsely accused cake burner King Alfred.
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RatingsSpazticus & Boom Town launch as England scores 9m peak
England’s victory over Scotland in Wednesday’s international football friendly peaked with 9m viewers on ITV as Chanel 4’s I’m Spazticus and BBC3’s Boom Town launched with below par audiences.
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RatingsNew Tricks beats Cutting Edge & India obesity docs
Channel 4’s Cutting Edge film about a mother who goes into hiding with her son and a BBC2 doc about India’s obesity issues were unable to topple New Tricks.
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RatingsC4 signs on 2m for Benefits Britain
Twenty Twenty’s Benefits Britain 1949 scored over 2m viewers for Channel 4 on Monday, while Long Lost Family recorded its best series performance.
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RatingsField Of Blood sheds 1m
The Field Of Blood shed 1m viewers on Friday night as BBC4’s three-hour documentary about The Eagles peaked with an audience of 500,000.
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RatingsThat Puppet Show fails to string along viewers
BBC1’s That Puppet Show and I Love My Country both failed to magic up a decent audience against an ITV repeat of Harry Potter on Saturday night.
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RatingsHairy Bikers return with 2m
The Hairy Bikers’ decision to turn their hand to engineering restored an audience of almost 2m to BBC2 on Sunday, as The Mill and Southcliffe fell to series lows for Channel 4.
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RatingsTucker is just the tonic
So, what are the implications of Malcolm Tucker being the new Doctor? Inevitably, YouTube has had many, many fruity ideas, but given the avowed desire for greater co-operation across the BBC, it does all rather suggest a post-watershed BBC3 brand extension.
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RatingsField of Blood runs to over 3m
The return of BBC1 drama The Field of Blood produced over 1m more viewers than the first series debut on Thursday, while BBC2’s The Men Who Made Us Thin shrank from Jacques Peretti’s previous series performance.
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RatingsNo trouble at The Mill
Working in TV can be quite glamorous, but when August arrives, things do slow down – to the extent that my big job seems to be pairing up the hundreds of socks I own.
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RatingsHowzat! for a result
I am not sure there is any other sport in the world that can have a triumphant, historically significant result brought about directly by rain-induced inaction after four days of fruitless tussling. Which is why you have to love cricket.
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RatingsCartoons are a top draw
Displayed in the National Gallery is the Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo someone.
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RatingsFinal Top Gear laps Das Auto
In the card game Top Trumps, German Cars was the best pack to have. Memories of shouting “60 BHP” and “1760cc!” were evoked by Sunday’s BBC2 German car documentary, which, coincidentally, on the 99th anniversary of Britain declaring war on Germany, launched a, er, German season.
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RatingsSharknado sees 200k storm to Syfy
Sharknado was the highest-rated film of the year for pay-TV channel Syfy on Wednesday night, as the man-eating shark disaster movie hooked 200,000 viewers.
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RatingsPointless leaves ITV in a Twist
With heat like we had in July, I was hoping for a prolonged and corking thunderstorm of Cecil B De Mille proportions to end the scorchio summer.
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RatingsHow Not To Get Old provides elixir for 1.5m
Channel 4 anti-ageing series How Not To Get Old got underway with 1.4m viewers on Wednesday as Channel 5’s new ob-doc Nurses broke the 1m viewers mark.