All Ratings articles – Page 354
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RatingsChipper start for C4’s Fargo
Some movie scenes stick with you, like David Niven and Robert Wagner dressed as gorillas driving a sports car and being chased by Peter Seller’s Clouseau, the opening to Saving Private Ryan, or when Mr Vader owns up to being Luke’s dad.
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RatingsBBC2’s seed fails to grow
Given the furore over BBC1’s ‘Mumblegate’, it’s perhaps ironic that BBC2 should this week show a subtitled drama and the next night play a silent film.
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RatingsMushroom doc is magic
This week, in its studious fashion, BBC4 tapped into the magic world of fungi. Elsewhere, ITV2 spawned a new panel show, while E4 banged on with its geeks.
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RatingsSteady losses at BBC’s Jamaica Inn
Some scraps of dialogue have been found from Daphne du Maurier’s original draft of Jamaica Inn.
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RatingsBBC4 beats BBC2, C4 & C5 with The First Georgians
BBC4 documentary The First Georgians was the channel’s highest-performing programme of the year, pulling in 1.2m viewers on Thursday to beat BBC2, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
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RatingsCardinal Burns pulls 500k
Madcap sketch show Cardinal Burns returned for a second series on Channel 4 on Wednesday with an audience of 520, 000 – around half the channel’s slot average.
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RatingsMr Drew's School For Boys welcomes 1.7m
Mr Drew’s School For Boys opened on Channel 4 on Tuesday with 1.7m viewers – ahead of the launch episode of Educating Essex, on which he made his name.
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RatingsGood Morning Britain rises with 800k
ITV’s new breakfast brand Good Morning Britain outperformed its predecessor Daybreak, rising with 800,000 viewers on Monday morning.
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RatingsGogglebox hits 3m
Channel 4’s Gogglebox climbed to an all-time overnight high of more than 3m viewers on Friday - seeing off ITV’s repeat of detective drama Lewis.
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RatingsVera returns with record ratings
ITV crime drama Vera returned for a fourth series on Sunday with record overnight ratings.
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RatingsBritain's Got Talent back above 10m
Britain’s Got Talent was back up above 10m for its third outing on Saturday, as viewers continued to retire from Amazing Greys.
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RatingsITV hits high note with BGT
There’s no stopping the singing, dancing and juggling (or all three) talent show.
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RatingsSlim pickings for Mad Men
It’s about slightly awkward headwear, faraway places, high politics, a whiff of debauchery, existential despair and massive swords swishing metaphorically, and sometimes literally, about the place.
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RatingsBees create a buzz for BBC4
Winnie the Pooh, not one of literature’s great thinkers, was nonetheless prepared to gamble everything if honey was involved, as illustrated by the whole bees/tree/balloon fiasco of legend.
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RatingsParking problem for ITV
Having made it through the neverending rain with the increasingly panicky impression that January might not actually have ended, the spring bewilders us with a sudden phalanx of bank holidays showering themselves upon our pasty, sun-starved faces and the chance to watch a Bond movie or six.
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RatingsBBC2 sows the seeds of a hit
Get out the cloche, pull up the radish, snip the beans and sweep the duckboards – the latest craft to master has arrived.
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RatingsITV’s Family of My Own draws 2.3m
Wanted: A Family of My Own, ITV’s latest factual format from Long Lost Family producer Wall to Wall Television, failed to locate a big audience on Thursday.
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RatingsDerek cares for 1.6m viewers
Ricky Gervais comedy Derek returned well for Channel 4 on Wednesday, pulling in an audience roughly in line with the launch of series one.
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RatingsJamaica Inn loses 1.7m visitors
Jamaica Inn lost 1.7m viewers for its second episode on Tuesday as MTV pulled in one of its best-ever launch crowds for holiday format Ex On The Beach.
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RatingsEastEnders murder plot fails to thrill
The death of Lucy Beale failed to boost EastEnders’ ratings on Friday, as Gogglebox recorded a series high.