All Ratings articles – Page 368
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RatingsBun fight fails Benefits test
Last year, there was a Twitter-based hoo-ha about one of the Bake-Off finalists. It was largely ludicrous, if unpleasant for the baker involved, but creator Love Productions probably felt that as controversies go, it was manageable.
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RatingsBenidorm takes the honours for ITV
ITV’s Benidorm pipped BBC1’s Silent Witness to the post on Thursday evening - as Birds of a Feather continued to soar.
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RatingsDramatic improvement at ITV
The success of Broadchurch and the continuing appeal of Coronation Street, Downton Abbey and I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! helped ITV become the only terrestrial network to grow share across its schedule in 2013.
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RatingsNational Television Awards back to 6m
ITV’s National Television Awards recovered from last year’s low to pull in an audience of more than 6m viewers on Wednesday.
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RatingsDeath in Paradise murders the competition
Ben Miller’s exit doesn’t appear to have dampened enthusiasm for Death in Paradise, as the BBC1 drama continued with nearly 7m viewers on Tuesday.
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RatingsCoronation Street hits nine-month high
The climax of Coronation Street’s euthanasia storyline helped the soap to its best ratings in nine months on Monday, while the return of Girls on Sky Atlantic failed to cut through.
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RatingsCall The Midwife returns with record high
BBC1 celebrated a strong night on Sunday with the highest-ever rated Call The Midwife and a convincing launch of The Musketeers, while ITV’s Mr Selfridge stuttered on its return.
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RatingsThe Voice UK loses 700,000
Nearly 700,000 viewers turned their backs on the second instalment of The Voice UK - but it remained the most-watched show on Saturday night.
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RatingsFootball and crime pay
As usual, football dominates the charts – and each week that it does, its price will just go up and up.
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RatingsThe Bridge lifts up BBC4
My fierce history teacher once delivered summary justice to one of the cool kids (during a lesson about appeasement, ironically). He was my hero after that and would have fitted right in with BBC3’s young instructors.
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RatingsBenefits Street claims top spot
Gazing at the night sky seeing stars that blew up long ago puts missing the council’s Christmas tree collection day into perspective.
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RatingsThe Voice sings loud and clear
While John Profumo, minister of war and soon-tobe epithet to a scandal, lounged around Bill Astor’s pool at Cliveden more than 50 years ago, talking of things toffs do, Christine Keeler sashayed up and a nation was gripped.
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RatingsHidden Kingdoms trampled by Bake Off
BBC1’s natural history show Hidden Kingdoms was squashed by the competition on Thursday night, including the finale of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off.
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RatingsKumars welcome 370k to Sky 1
The Kumars returned to TV screens on Wednesday with an audience of more than 370,000 - three times greater than Sky 1’s average performance.
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RatingsDeath in Paradise tracks down record ratings
Death in Paradise returned for a third series on Tuesday with its best-ever ratings, murdering the second instalment of The Taste, which lost 800,000 viewers.
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RatingsBenefits Street expands to 5.1m
The controversy surrounding Benefits Street translated into ratings, as the Channel 4 show’s audience leapt to 5.1m on Monday.
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RatingsSherlock bows out with 8.8m
The third series of Sherlock made its final bow on Sunday in front of its lowest audience of the run.
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RatingsThe Voice UK back on-song
The Voice received a boost from the Kylie Minogue factor, as the Talpa Media format returned on Saturday with an audience that topped every episode from last year’s series.
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RatingsThe Undateables hits low
The Undateables returned for a third series on Thursday with its lowest audience to date - as Birds of a Feather lost nearly a million viewers.
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RatingsYear kicks off with football
Judging by the top programmes list, all too many of us were able to do, weighed down by delicate constitutions following New Year revelry and left-over Christmas trimmings, was watch others run about booting a ball or wonder abstractly what might be hidden in the loft.