All Ratings articles – Page 348
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RatingsBBC dares to win on Saturday
At an evening of cello scraping on Saturday, I was reminded why I couldn’t master a musical instrument.
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RatingsHidden Kingdoms bows out on low
BBC1’s nature series Hidden Kingdoms bowed out on a low on Thursday, as it was again flattened by the competition on ITV.
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RatingsCelebrity Big Brother final pulls in record peak
Jim Davidson won Celebrity Big Brother on Wednesday in front of the show’s highest peak audience since it moved to Channel 5.
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RatingsSeries lows for The Taste, The Jump and Death In Paradise
Death In Paradise, Paul O’Grady’s Animal Orphans, The Jump and The Taste all put in series low performances on Tuesday.
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RatingsRoom 101 drops to 3.4m
Room 101 returned to BBC1 with an audience 300,000 smaller last year’s series opener on Friday.
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RatingsC4 leaps ahead of the competition
Channel 4 enjoyed a good night on Monday as The Jump held up well and Benefits Street outgunned Jeremy Paxman’s World War I doc for BBC1.
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RatingsSplash! drowned out by The Voice
Splash! bellyflopped to a new low on Saturday, faltering under pressure from The Voice UK.
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RatingsThe Jump launches with 2.6m
Channel 4’s celebrity winter sports format The Jump leapt into action on Sunday with 2.6m viewers – putting it marginally ahead of the 2011 launch of Famous and Fearless.
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RatingsBBC has its time in the Sun
When I was a humble ratings estimator, an agitated sales exec asked why I’d rated so highly a drama that had yet to air. “Because it’s on in January and it’s got the word ‘summer’ in the title,” I blurted. To my relief, it was believed.
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RatingsC4 reaps the Benefits
The year is now well under way and the schedules are beginning to take shape. Returning code-crackers got off to a decent start for ITV, while a British children’s classic has been given a youthful American rubdown for E4.
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RatingsTidy result for Dave
Amid mobs and all the excesses that Babylon has come to represent, only outdone by modern day football, the appeal of two young lovers from Essex and South Wales continues unabated, with a whole series splurged out at once for avid fans.
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RatingsGeeks help out E4 cops
E4’s geeky boffins have competition from a cop whose new boss wants less fun and more criminal capturing. Meanwhile, over on BBC4, Britain’s oldest butcher did rather nicely.
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RatingsBun fight fails Benefits test
Last year, there was a Twitter-based hoo-ha about one of the Bake-Off finalists. It was largely ludicrous, if unpleasant for the baker involved, but creator Love Productions probably felt that as controversies go, it was manageable.
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RatingsBenidorm takes the honours for ITV
ITV’s Benidorm pipped BBC1’s Silent Witness to the post on Thursday evening - as Birds of a Feather continued to soar.
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RatingsDramatic improvement at ITV
The success of Broadchurch and the continuing appeal of Coronation Street, Downton Abbey and I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! helped ITV become the only terrestrial network to grow share across its schedule in 2013.
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RatingsNational Television Awards back to 6m
ITV’s National Television Awards recovered from last year’s low to pull in an audience of more than 6m viewers on Wednesday.
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RatingsDeath in Paradise murders the competition
Ben Miller’s exit doesn’t appear to have dampened enthusiasm for Death in Paradise, as the BBC1 drama continued with nearly 7m viewers on Tuesday.
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RatingsCoronation Street hits nine-month high
The climax of Coronation Street’s euthanasia storyline helped the soap to its best ratings in nine months on Monday, while the return of Girls on Sky Atlantic failed to cut through.
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RatingsCall The Midwife returns with record high
BBC1 celebrated a strong night on Sunday with the highest-ever rated Call The Midwife and a convincing launch of The Musketeers, while ITV’s Mr Selfridge stuttered on its return.
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RatingsThe Voice UK loses 700,000
Nearly 700,000 viewers turned their backs on the second instalment of The Voice UK - but it remained the most-watched show on Saturday night.