All Ratings articles – Page 360
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RatingsTVC nostalgia propels BBC4 to record ratings
Nostalgic programming about the BBC’s exit from Television Centre helped BBC4 post its biggest ever weekly share of viewers.
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RatingsPlebs smashes ITV2 records
Plebs became ITV2’s biggest sitcom launch in its near 14-year history - as BBC2’s intimate documentary on the rise of Boris Johnson pulled in nearly 2.4m viewers.
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RatingsFoyle's War hooks 7m after three year break
Period detective drama Foyle’s War returned to ITV after a three year hiatus and drew a bumper 7m viewers.
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RatingsSaturday Night Takeaway climbs to new high
Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway rose to a new high beating a Dr Who special of Pointless Celebrities and the return of The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins on BBC1.
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RatingsEngland's rout of San Marino hits 6m
England’s 8-0 win over San Marino on Friday night helped ITV record an above-average performance, while BBC2’s Ancient Egypt doc drew over 2m.
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RatingsFewer TVs but more viewing
The future: it’s confusion, wrapped in contradiction inside uncertainty. Wonderbra ad man Trevor Beattie says the 30-second ad is dead: long live the bite-sized, five-second ad, or, unhelpfully, the two-minute ad.
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RatingsSpurs score for ITV4
Manicurists in London may have had a few odd visits from burly blokes on Friday morning: Tottenham fans with no nails asking for falsies.
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RatingsQueen finds an audience
ITV doc pulls in more than 5 million on Sunday as Friday’s Comic Relief wins the week for BBC1
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RatingsMimicry’s not dead on C4
As a yoof, my only skill was replicating the sound of the family telephone. For weeks, the phone would ‘ring’ at deliciously inconvenient times. My stifled giggling eventually betrayed me and I was crushed in an avalanche of telling off. Still, mimicking isn’t dead, as Channel 4’s new comedy showed.
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RatingsMartin Lewis delivers 3m to ITV
The Martin Lewis Money Show underperformed against the slot average on its return to ITV in a night of unspectacular terrestrial ratings.
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RatingsYoungers draws 450,000 to E4
E4’s new drama set on a south London housing estate Youngers pulled in an above average audience of 450,000 as the channel tested debuting an original show in the early evening slot.
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RatingsThe Syndicate proves just the ticket for BBC1
Lottery drama The Syndicate returned with the winning formula for BBC1 - topping last year’s opening episode and winning the 9pm slot.
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RatingsPaul Hollywood’s Bread rises to the occasion
Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood’s new series on bread rose to the occasion - as ITV drama Broadcurch rocketed to a series high of 7.6m viewers.
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RatingsOur Queen fails to topple Hitchcock
ITV’s landmark documentary Our Queen, the first feature-length exploration of the royal household in 20 years, struggled against the BBC remake of Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.
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RatingsWales Six Nations win peaks with 9.5m
The climax of the 2013 Six Nations rugby tournament was the ratings winner on Saturday as viewers flocked to the BBC.
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RatingsComic Relief draws lowest audience since 2007
Friday’s Comic Relief broke fundraising records but failed to rouse an audience to match - pulling in its lowest ratings since 2007.
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RatingsCrufts is top dog for C4
My childhood companion was a dog called Dougal. On long postschool walks, one of us would always walk through the muddy puddle, and sometimes it was him. We Brits love our dogs, as More 4 finds out with each passing year.
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RatingsThe Brits do for Derek
A wise sage once said to me: “You aren’t going outside dressed like that are you?” Days later, a different sage ventured that a repeat is only a repeat if you haven’t seen it; how true.
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RatingsHeaven beats Hindenburg
As a nipper, I was ambitious for my train set; it would have many miniature people and tiny trees. However, once I found I had to make my people, I lost interest. BBC2, however, retains its fascination with locomotives.
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RatingsSkating on thin ice at ITV
Torvill and Dean and Dancing On Ice help channel overcome the pain of Woeful Wednesday