All Ratings articles – Page 361
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RatingsNo trouble at The Mill
Working in TV can be quite glamorous, but when August arrives, things do slow down – to the extent that my big job seems to be pairing up the hundreds of socks I own.
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RatingsHowzat! for a result
I am not sure there is any other sport in the world that can have a triumphant, historically significant result brought about directly by rain-induced inaction after four days of fruitless tussling. Which is why you have to love cricket.
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RatingsCartoons are a top draw
Displayed in the National Gallery is the Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo someone.
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RatingsFinal Top Gear laps Das Auto
In the card game Top Trumps, German Cars was the best pack to have. Memories of shouting “60 BHP” and “1760cc!” were evoked by Sunday’s BBC2 German car documentary, which, coincidentally, on the 99th anniversary of Britain declaring war on Germany, launched a, er, German season.
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RatingsSharknado sees 200k storm to Syfy
Sharknado was the highest-rated film of the year for pay-TV channel Syfy on Wednesday night, as the man-eating shark disaster movie hooked 200,000 viewers.
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RatingsPointless leaves ITV in a Twist
With heat like we had in July, I was hoping for a prolonged and corking thunderstorm of Cecil B De Mille proportions to end the scorchio summer.
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RatingsHow Not To Get Old provides elixir for 1.5m
Channel 4 anti-ageing series How Not To Get Old got underway with 1.4m viewers on Wednesday as Channel 5’s new ob-doc Nurses broke the 1m viewers mark.
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RatingsLondon and Nuremberg docs fail to dent New Tricks
One-off docs on BBC2 and ITV about Germany and London’s Square Mile failed to dent the success of New Tricks on Tuesday.
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RatingsC4's Twitter doc followed by 1m
Channel 4’s Dispatches expose about Twitter, Celebs, Brands and Fake Fans, was followed by over 1m on Monday, while drama Southcliffe shed 400,000 viewers on its return.
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RatingsDoctor Who reveal records nearly 7m
Peter Capaldi’s introduction as the latest Doctor Who, unsurprisingly, drew a large number of viewers on Sunday, while Channel 4’s latest drama Southcliffe performed well.
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RatingsI Love My Country fails to unite viewers
BBC1’s sporting quiz show I Love My Country failed to overcome Your Face Sounds Familiar on Saturday evening as the ITV1 gameshow ended with its second highest outing.
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RatingsC4 music pilot struggles to hit the right notes
Channel 4’s latest music pilot, fronted by Nick Grimshaw, struggled to find viewers on Friday night, while viewers swarmed to BBC2’s Horizon special on bees.
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RatingsBT Sport peaks with 200k on launch
BT Sport peaked with 207,500 (1.21%) viewers on its opening night as sports fans tuned in to see Bayern Munich versus Manchester City.
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RatingsRun walks off with share rise
Although August is the month of holidays and a time when the news goes a bit round the bend –Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and whistling llamas on the Today programme was the starting gun – television still entices viewers.
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RatingsBaby joy for digital news
After naming the new royal urchin George Alexander Louis, I wondered if there might be a ‘By George, it’s a GAL’ headline.
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RatingsMisery is good for C4
Whatever the opposite of trouble at t’mill is (shindig at t’mill perhaps?), Channel 4 will have been toasting poor, oppressed child labour on Sunday evening.
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RatingsStar power wins for BBC4
BBC4 proved old stars never lose it as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor delivered nicely for the channel this week.
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RatingsCouncil House doc moves 2m into C4
Channel 4’s new series How To Get a Council House moved in to the schedule with an audience of over 2m on Thursday.
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RatingsCelebrity Masterchef cooks up 5m
Celebrity Masterchef was watched by 4.7m viewers on Wednesday as it swapped to BBC1 from last year’s outing on BBC2.
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RatingsA tough act to follow
With the Olympics boosting last year’s viewing figures, maintaining volume was always going to be difficult.