All Ratings articles – Page 351
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RatingsX Factor finale second lowest-rated ever
The X Factor finale performed to its second lowest audience on record on Sunday as Sam Bailey was crowned champion.
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RatingsITV is king of the jungle
It’s almost a Dickensian scene: the remains of a roasted goose sit on a table as a fat, rosy-faced uncle rests contentedly by a roaring fire, sipping his sherry and contemplating his works.
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RatingsHeroic stand for S.H.I.E.L.D
They say never meet your heroes. Over the years I’ve met a few: England cricket captains, World Cup-winning prop forwards, campaigning journalists and, of course, Timmy Mallett. But once met, do they not just become, well, like us?
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RatingsComedy Awards draw less laughter than 2012
The British Comedy Awards recorded less laughter than last year on Thursday as the Jonathan Ross-fronted event shed half a million viewers.
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RatingsDrama’s monk is heaven sent
It seems we love a detective no matter where in space or time they are from, as long as there’s a good juicy murder.
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RatingsBig result as E4 beats C4
You know why the song Istanbul (Not Constantinople) left it there? It was because trying to get in “oh, and it was also Byzantium” would have caused chaos.
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RatingsBBC2 rises to the Challenge
Some years ago, while snowbound at a friend’s house in Switzerland, we played Trivial Pursuit.
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RatingsLucan biopic draws 4m
ITV’s biopic on Lord Lucan, the playboy aristocrat who vanished in the 1970s after his children’s nanny was murdered, made a solid start on Wednesday.
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RatingsPanorama Comic Relief pulls in 1.7m
Panorama’s investigation into Comic Relief informed 1.7m viewers on Tuesday, just below the average for the 10.35pm slot.
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RatingsLiberty of London sheds 700,000 viewers
Channel 4’s department store doc Liberty of London lost 35% of its audience on Monday – as The Royal Variety Performance shed a million viewers.
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RatingsRobbie gig entertains almost 5m
Robbie Williams live swing performance at the Palladium performed relatively well for BBC1 on a quiet Friday night.
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RatingsI’m a Celebrity bows out on three-year high
Sunday’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! final was the show’s highest-rated climax since 2010 as Kian Egan was crowned king of the jungle.
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RatingsX Factor semi-final outshines 2012
The X Factor semi-final outperformed last year’s outing, but was still easily beaten by a series high for Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday.
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RatingsWild Burma tames C4 Cats
It remains difficult for me to see a polystyrene cup without wanting to pick it up, place it between my teeth and launch into “sitting at my piano the other day”, followed by throwing an imaginary ball into a paper bag.
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RatingsCops crack it for ITV3
Did the comet Ison have the cosmos’s most useless satnav? After 3 million years of travel, its command was: ‘In 1 million miles take the second exit and head for the big, hot yellow thing.’
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RatingsFairytale result for Disney Jr
The big football-centric beasts may be spending the sort of money that would make Croesus blush, and dominating the press in an Alpha sort of way, but sometimes the big news is about a cartoon princess who turns into a mermaid to visit an underwater city. Oh, and tow trucks.
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RatingsLast but not least for BBC1
How on earth did it get to be December? I had weeks, if not months, to do my Christmas shopping and now, suddenly, there are just a handful of days left.
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RatingsDoctor beats all-comers
It’s a bit like the giant spot on an adolescent’s nose that springs up right on cue as the first date approaches: really hard to miss. But just in case you didn’t spot the BBC’s subtle marketing, Doctor Who was 50 on 23 November (though the Doctor himself is rather ...
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RatingsNelson Mandela coverage peaks with 6m for BBC1
BBC1’s coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela was seen by a peak audience of 6.1m on Thursday.
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RatingsFallow ratings for BBC farm shows
Farm Kitchen and Monastery Farm fell to series lows as I’m A Celebrity continued to hoover up viewers on Wednesday.