All Ratings articles – Page 392
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Oscar Pistorius defeat draws nearly 4.2m
Oscar Pistorius’ surprise defeat in the men’s 200m T44 helped Channel 4 to its biggest audience of Paralympic Games so far.
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Doctor Who hits seven-year low
Doctor Who returned with its lowest series launch audience since the sci-fi franchise was rebooted in 2005 as The X Factor continued to underperform.
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Celebrity Juice returns with 1.5m
ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice beat BBC2 and Channel 4 on its return – but was more than half a million down on its last series debut.
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Paralympics peaks with 3.2m on first day
Channel 4’s first day of coverage of the Paralympic Games peaked with nearly 3.2m viewers as Team GB’s basketball team lost to Germany.
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Paralympic opening ceremony peaks with nearly 11m
The extravagant Paralympic opening ceremony scored one of the biggest audiences in Channel 4’s 30-year history.
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Olympics Broadcasting: record-breaking TV
The London 2012 Olympics helped the BBC wipe the floor with the commercial channels – and the Paralympics could do something similar for C4. Stephen Price reports.
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George returns strongly
ITV will want to forget about its chastening August, as BBC1 favourites draw the viewers.
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Weight loss gains viewers
The Hairy Bikers quest to lose weight was recorded by nearly half a million BBC2 viewers taking it to the best audience of the series.
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Good start for Parade’s End
The spectral image of a nun at a coronation was the spookiest sight this week in Channel 4’s latest royal documentary. Elsewhere, BBC2 found its buns rising and its parade ending in a very ‘channel of the year’ kind of way.
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Top marks for Bad Education
Bad Education – the BBC3 Jack Whitehall sitcom, not the shabby treatment of GCSE English students – has found its feet quickly.
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BBC3’s Bad Education schools 930k
Bad Education, the new school sitcom starring Jack Whitehall, continued to perform strongly for BBC3.
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Accused down 1.3m on debut
Jimmy McGovern’s criminal justice drama Accused fell to a new series low - meaning it has lost more than 1.3m viewers on its debut.
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Julia Davis’ Hunderby launches with 110k
Sky Atlantic’s new macabre comedy from Julia Davis doubled the channel’s usual audience figures on its debut.
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Citizen Khan debuts with 3.41m
BBC1’s new post-watershed sitcom Citizen Khan made a strong start - topping the first ever episode of Mrs Brown’s Boys.
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Touch of Cloth tops 500k for Sky1
A Touch of Cloth, the new spoof crime drama from Charlie Brooker, performed strongly for Sky1 on its debut.
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The X Factor up 300k on debut - down 1.7m YoY
The X Factor grew its audience by around 300k on last week - but it was more than 1.7m viewers down on the equivalent episode in 2011.
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Parade’s End tops 3m on debut
BBC2’s new period drama Parade’s End, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, managed to beat all-comers on its Friday night debut.
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Waterloo Road scores low marks after Scotland move
BBC1 school drama Waterloo Road has recorded its lowest launch figures to date after relocating to Scotland.
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CBB tops 2m with Jasmine exit
The live eviction of Jasmine Lennard from Celebrity Big Brother topped the 2m mark and drew the second highest audience of the run for the Channel 5 reality show.
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Yesterday’s Secret is out
I once worked at the Museum Of London and was party to some pretty interesting secrets, not least a need to obscure the mushroom vol au vents from the then arts minister at a museum do. However, Yesterday’s museum secrets no longer seem all hushed up.