All Ratings articles – Page 398
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RatingsOlympics 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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RatingsGeorge returns strongly
ITV will want to forget about its chastening August, as BBC1 favourites draw the viewers.
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RatingsWeight 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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RatingsGood 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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RatingsTop 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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RatingsBBC3’s Bad Education schools 930k
Bad Education, the new school sitcom starring Jack Whitehall, continued to perform strongly for BBC3.
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RatingsAccused 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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RatingsJulia 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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RatingsCitizen 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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RatingsTouch 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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RatingsThe 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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RatingsParade’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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RatingsWaterloo 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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RatingsCBB 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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RatingsYesterday’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.
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RatingsOlympics take the honours
It all feels like a faraway dream: the wild cheering, the tears of joy/despair and the super-human feats amid the general balmy madness of the Olympics.
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RatingsKay takes the cake-makers
The buns are back in town, as Thin Lizzy never said (but I bet they wish they had). BBC2 had more fun with baking and enjoyed the origins of the Paralympics.
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RatingsAutumn battle begins
Post Olympics, attention turns to Saturdays, with the return of X Factor and Red Or Black?
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RatingsC4 scores 3.5m ratings high with Royal film
Channel 4 provided the surprise hit of the night with a documentary about the Queen’s mother-in-law - as BBC2’s Great British Bake Off rose to its second highest audience ever.
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RatingsJack Whitehall’s Bad Education rises to 1m
New BBC3 sitcom Bad Education drew nearly a million viewers on its second outing.