All Ratings articles – Page 379
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RatingsBlack Mirror makes steady return
Charlie Brooker’s darkly satirical drama Black Mirror returned with nearly 1.5m viewers – as My Big Fat Gypsy Valentine scored the franchise’s lowest ever audience.
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RatingsBritain’s Brightest bows out on high
Clare Balding’s gameshow Britain’s Brightest bowed out with its biggest audience of the series on Saturday.
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RatingsMonty Don continues to bloom
BBC2’s horticultural series Monty Don blossomed with 1.68m (7%) as long running crime procedural Silent Witness struggled over the finishing line for BBC1.
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RatingsBaftas peak up by 350k for BBC1
The British Film Academy Awards peaked with 6.2m viewers, outperforming last year’s ceremony, on a night that saw multiple wins for Argo, Les Miserables and Skyfall.
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RatingsGoodbye, it’s been such fun
If I owned a car park in Winchester, I’d be getting worried. For dead king hunting is now a thing, and municipal car parks seem to offer rich pickings.
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RatingsOld stars still draw a crowd
Pop music used to be ephemeral, but no longer. For while Liberty X might be more Liberty Why? these days, they can still draw a crowd, as ITV2 found out.
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RatingsA matter of life and death
Murder among palm trees, prisons and serial killers whetted the viewers’ appetite this week and, by Jove, they lapped them all up with a spoon.
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RatingsBaking queen takes the cake
Without wishing to invent some new sort of rotisserie baking method, it’s a bun revolution out there.
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RatingsNashville strikes a chord for More4
More 4’s latest US acquisition struck a chord with viewers, as stars Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere helped it rise 100,000 viewers over slot average.
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RatingsBionic Man assembles audience of 1m
Channel 4’s ambitious attempt to create the first completely ‘bionic man’ struggled against the competition, coming second to last in the 9pm slot.
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RatingsEngland's victory over Brazil nets 9m
England’s 2-1 win over Brazil, for the first time in nine matches, peaked with a huge 8.96m on ITV demolishing all its competitors.
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RatingsMixed fortunes for Death in Paradise
Death in Paradise fell to series low but was still the highest rating show in a drama-packed 9pm slot on Tuesday.
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RatingsRichard III doc digs up a storm for C4
Richard III: the King in the Car Park unearthed Channel 4’s biggest audience of the year to date.
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RatingsMonty Don's French fancy draws 1.6m
Monty Don’s latest travelogue exploring French gardens bloomed with 1.6m for BBC2.
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RatingsCall the Midwife remains imperious
Call the Midwife gained more than half a million viewers on last week’s episode to deliver BBC1 the biggest audience of Sunday.
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RatingsRepeats save Sky’s Bacon
Fresh from demanding that we be ubiquitous with our next phone choice, Kevin Bacon pops up as a washed-up serial-killer hunter; Sky Atlantic will be pleased.
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RatingsBirth, death and taxes
Somewhere in the pages of Margaret Mitchell’s voluminous novel Gone With The Wind there is a line that laments: ‘Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never a convenient time for any of them!’
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RatingsBakers bring relief to BBC2
The first Comic Relief was terribly daring: lots of radical comedians beseeching us to bypass heartless government and laugh our way to chariddy.
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RatingsSplash! finale soars
Splash! bowed out with its second biggest audience of the series - helping it become ITV’s best entertainment series launch since 2008.
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RatingsITV still making a Splash!
A mere 200 years ago, Jane Austen sat at her desk pondering the opening of Pride And Prejudice.