All Ratings articles – Page 401
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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.
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RatingsITV2's Big Reunion scores record 1.2m launch
The reunion of major 90s pop acts including Atomic Kitten, 5ive and Liberty X drew more than 1m viewers to ITV2, making The Big Reunion the channel’s highest new series launch since 2008.
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RatingsThe Secret Life of Dogs launches with 3.85m
ITV’s recent obsession with all things canine brought it almost 4m viewers on Thursday, leaving it just short of its 9pm slot average.
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RatingsDerek starts with 1.5m
Ricky Gervais sitcom Derek launched with over 1.5m outperforming Channel 4’s slot average.
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RatingsThe Following swells by 100k on Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic series The Following, starring Kevin Bacon continued with a strong performance - adding over 100k viewers to its series debut.
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RatingsDallas flops on return
The second series of Dallas returned to Channel 5 with an underwhelming audience, failing to attract 1m viewers.
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RatingsPrince Harry doc outguns competition for BBC3
A fly-on-the-wall BBC3 film following Prince Harry during his 20-week tour in Afghanistan outgunned the multichannel competition last night with an audience of almost 900k.
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RatingsMove to BBC1 doubles Miranda audience
Miranda bowed out with 7m viewers - helping the BBC1 comedy topple ITV’s detective series Lewis for the fourth consecutive week.
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RatingsTop Gear returns to form
Top Gear returned with its best series launch audience in two years - as Andy Murray’s Australian Open final defeat peaked with 5.32m.
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RatingsSplash! dips as BBC1 suffers again
The penultimate instalment of ITV’s celebrity diving show Splash! dipped again - as BBC1’s woeful Saturday night performance continued.
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RatingsCBB finale draws record audience
Celebrity Big Brother ended with its highest ever audience for a finale since it moved to Channel 5.
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RatingsGenius of Invention launches with 1.54m
BBC2’s year of invention got off to a spluttering start with Michael Mosley’s new series on British engineering pioneers.
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RatingsDecent entry for E4’s Diary
Teenage diaries are full of youthful woe; grown-ups’ tend to be used as reminders to put the bins out.
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RatingsTomfoolery is the top draw
Ratings are strong for just the kind of madness that soothes the soul.
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RatingsWinter’s a hot topic for BBC2
One can watch winter by just looking out of the window at the determinedly clingy ice and snow.