All Ratings articles – Page 363
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RatingsAttenborough’s Rise of Animals draws 2.1m
David Attenborough’s new BBC2 two-parter Rise of the Animals was unable to rouse a big enough audience to beat Channel 4 at 9pm on Friday.
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RatingsThe X Factor's final auditions draw 8.8m
The final closed-doors audition round of The X Factor was watched by the show’s second lowest audience of the series on Saturday.
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RatingsDownton Abbey smashes series launch record
Downton Abbey returned for a fourth series with 9.5m viewers on Sunday – the Julian Fellowes drama’s best overnight series launch to date.
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RatingsSlow start for ITV dramas
The early autumn has revealed a difference in schedule strategy between BBC1 and ITV. BBC1 launched much of its current line-up in late summer, whereas ITV waited… waited… then sprang into action like a coiled cat with loads of new stuff as soon as August tipped into September.
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RatingsThe calm before the storm
With the BBC yet to bring out its Autumn big guns, ITV completes a clean sweep of the top 10
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RatingsBBC4 living la dolce vita
BBC4’s championing of the subtitled drama has been famously led by the dourly compelling ‘Scandi Noir’.
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RatingsAlibi cracks it with Rizzoli
This week saw a veritable smorgasboard of goings-on as young couples fell in love despite having never met, the staff of North Carolina’s Lizard Lick Towing & Recovery Company fended off bullets and fists, while in fiction, a detective and a doc chased down the baddies.
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RatingsBBC2 plays a Blinder
The Midlands might not necessarily be at the cutting edge of fashion, but as BBC2’s new drama showed this week, you wouldn’t want to be making too many flat cap and whippet gags back in 1920s Brum.
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RatingsFather Figure opens with 1.4m
Jason Byrne comedy Father Figure failed to make a big impression on Wednesday night for BBC1 – as Whitechapel stooped to a new low.
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RatingsBake Off blasts Champions League competition
The Great British Bake Off continued its imperious form on Tuesday night - topping ITV’s first major Champions League match of the season.
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RatingsFried Chicken Shop fails to deliver
The Fried Chicken Shop rustled up an audience of 1.4m on Monday – some 30% down on the documentary’s Cutting Edge debut in February.
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RatingsSurprise Surprise back with a bang
Surprise Surprise pulled in a record high audience for ITV on Sunday – as the finale of Vera murdered BBC1’s What Remains.
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RatingsCBB final falls to C5 low
Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby won Celebrity Big Brother in front of the show’s lowest finale audience ever for Channel 5 on Friday.
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RatingsStepping Out outpoints I Love My Country
ITV’s dancing contest Stepping Out just edged out a series high performance from I Love My Country on Saturday - as The X Factor recovered from last week’s series low.
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RatingsBake Off still a hot property
You can tell when it’s autumn: the PSBs engage in a big Wednesday night tussle, with three shows hunting down similar audiences.
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RatingsJack’s back to buoy BBC3
I sometimes think most of my teachers were like Jack Whitehall in BBC3’s Bad Education.
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RatingsA double dose of Lemon aid
In my garden there is a young lemon tree. It’s very nice and until last week, it was threatening to deliver actual lemons, fooled into thinking it was living in lemon-growing territory like Italy, Greece or Florida.
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RatingsA good result for Sky Sports
Storage Hunters has found some space. Half the top 10, in fact, as a new series of those pesky cupboards and their contents landed on Dave.
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RatingsRound one to Strictly
X Factor loses the first Saturday night fight, but Sunday’s episode comes out on top overall
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RatingsEducating Yorkshire cuts down Peaky Blinders
Educating Yorkshire registered the biggest audience in the Thursday 9pm slot – beating the opening of BBC2’s gangster drama Peaking Blinders.