All Ratings articles – Page 360
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RatingsWho Do You Think You Are? nets series high
Gary Lineker’s investigation into his family history helped BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? to a series high on Wednesday night.
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RatingsThe Great British Bake Off rises 2m
The new series of The Great British Bake Off added more than 2m to last series, while the return of Top Boy performed well.
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RatingsBig Brother finale peaks with 2.5m
Big Brother enjoyed its best ever finale for Channel 5 as Welshman Sam Evans was crowned champion on Monday.
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RatingsDavid Walliams’ Big School registers 4m
David Walliams new BBC1 comedy Big School became the channel’s biggest sitcom launch of the year on Friday.
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RatingsLaw & Order, White Queen & Southcliffe fail to topple slot averages
ITV’s Law & Order, BBC1’s The White Queen and Channel 4’s Southcliffe concluded on Sunday with performances below their channels’ slot averages.
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RatingsPremier League opener nets 760k for BT Sport
Premier League football made its debut on BT Sport this Saturday as Liverpool put Stoke City to the sword in front of a 764k peak audience.
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RatingsOff-key performance from One Direction on C4
Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain set off with an audience of 4m on Thursday, as a Channel 4 doc about boy band One Direction fell over 1m short of the slot average.
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RatingsNon-PSBs win the day
With exploited Victorian children and sadistic murderers, it’s currently August rather than TS Eliot’s April that is the cruellest month.
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RatingsDragons slay sunday night
Jeremy Paxman’s beard may have captivated the Twitterverse, but if you’d squinted you could imagine him in a doublet slaying monsters with his broadsword, which seems appropriate in the week that the Dragons roared back.
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RatingsWatch hopes for the best
Football’s coming but right now it’s impolite to care as cricket takes the plaudits with more stirring performances.
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RatingsDoc spills BBC’s Blood
While watching the International Space Station glide serenely over our house each night this past week, I couldn’t stop myself muttering “Piiiigs In Space” in homage to the old Muppets sketch.
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RatingsRoyals rule on BBC4
There are an awful lot of kings and queens about at the moment and BBC4 joined in with its tales of the royal boudoir and the equally rambunctious goings-on of the Anglo Saxons and their falsely accused cake burner King Alfred.
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RatingsSpazticus & Boom Town launch as England scores 9m peak
England’s victory over Scotland in Wednesday’s international football friendly peaked with 9m viewers on ITV as Chanel 4’s I’m Spazticus and BBC3’s Boom Town launched with below par audiences.
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RatingsNew Tricks beats Cutting Edge & India obesity docs
Channel 4’s Cutting Edge film about a mother who goes into hiding with her son and a BBC2 doc about India’s obesity issues were unable to topple New Tricks.
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RatingsC4 signs on 2m for Benefits Britain
Twenty Twenty’s Benefits Britain 1949 scored over 2m viewers for Channel 4 on Monday, while Long Lost Family recorded its best series performance.
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RatingsField Of Blood sheds 1m
The Field Of Blood shed 1m viewers on Friday night as BBC4’s three-hour documentary about The Eagles peaked with an audience of 500,000.
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RatingsThat Puppet Show fails to string along viewers
BBC1’s That Puppet Show and I Love My Country both failed to magic up a decent audience against an ITV repeat of Harry Potter on Saturday night.
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RatingsHairy Bikers return with 2m
The Hairy Bikers’ decision to turn their hand to engineering restored an audience of almost 2m to BBC2 on Sunday, as The Mill and Southcliffe fell to series lows for Channel 4.
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RatingsTucker is just the tonic
So, what are the implications of Malcolm Tucker being the new Doctor? Inevitably, YouTube has had many, many fruity ideas, but given the avowed desire for greater co-operation across the BBC, it does all rather suggest a post-watershed BBC3 brand extension.
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RatingsField of Blood runs to over 3m
The return of BBC1 drama The Field of Blood produced over 1m more viewers than the first series debut on Thursday, while BBC2’s The Men Who Made Us Thin shrank from Jacques Peretti’s previous series performance.