All Ratings articles – Page 349
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RatingsLap of honour for Channel 4
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.
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RatingsBBC3 fails to make impact
Plenty has already been said about BBC3, but should its shows be in the top 30 consolidated shows?
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RatingsC5 beats Sky in jet doc battle
It’s interesting to see channels scramble their rapid-reaction resources to keep pace with the emerging mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.
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RatingsGreat result for More 4
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.
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RatingsSoaps still clean up in ratings
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.
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RatingsLine of Duty bows out on high
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.
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RatingsBBC3’s Hair hits high
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.
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RatingsThe Widower murders Silk
Jeff Pope’s latest ITV drama The Widower got off to solid start, murdering competition from BBC1’s Silk on Monday evening.
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RatingsTop Gear drives off with 6m
Top Gear drove off with over 6m viewers on Sunday, while Channel 4’s Live From Space peaked with 2.4m viewers.
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RatingsGogglebox settles into Friday home
Gogglebox settled into its Friday night home with a near identical audience to last week’s series debut, as Jonathan Creek ended on a low.
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RatingsThe Americans returns with 1.3m
The Americans returned on Saturday with nearly a million fewer viewers than last year’s debut, while Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway again outperformed The Voice UK.
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RatingsBBC1 finds Gently does it
In the same buildings where Woolies once offered its pick ’n’ mix range of gardening tools, CDs and bleach, pound shops now offer… well, much the same eclectic stuff but all for a pound.
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RatingsDerby clash wins for Sky
Sometimes watching Tottenham Hotspur is like watching an episode of The Walking Dead. But fans’ hope, so often squished, springs eternal.
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RatingsLewis sees off Morse for ITV3
ITV3 wrestled with time and space this week as Lewis was pursued from the past by his deceased boss’s younger self.
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RatingsMary cooks up BBC2 success
In the summer of 1914, moustaches and frock coats roamed the corridors of power and decided that it was time for war.
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RatingsHeavenly boost for Channel 4
That’s it, then. No more wobbly triple axels, uncertain camel spins or hydrant lifts of a Sunday night.
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RatingsC4 space series retains trajectory
C4’s second space documentary kept the channel’s ratings in orbit with 1.6m viewers.
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RatingsC4 space season blasts off with 1.6m
Channel 4 beamed aboard 1.6m viewers on Wednesday for the first leg of its intergalactic season, Astronauts: Living In Space.
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RatingsShetland outguns Arsenal’s European exit
BBC1’s Shetland returned with a million fewer viewers than last year’s pilot, but still outplayed ITV’s Champions League football on Tuesday.
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RatingsMichael McIntyre ties with Graham Norton
Michael McIntyre’s talk show launched in line with Graham Norton’s 2005 chat show The Bigger Picture on Monday.


















