All Ratings articles – Page 401
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RatingsRevolution inspires nearly 1m for Sky
Sky’s latest international import Revolution was a huge hit for the pay TV broadcaster, while BBC2’s Ancient Egypt expedition ended strongly.
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RatingsThe Village sets off with slot win
BBC1 drama The Village saw off the competition on its first outing on Easter Sunday.
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RatingsSaturday Night Takeaway outshines The Voice
The Voice UK failed to hit the high notes of its 2012 debut - as Ant and Dec topped the Saturday night ratings charts.
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RatingsTVC goes one step beyond
My first day at the BBC coincided with charity abseiling down the side of the TV Centre by quaking would-be plummetiers.
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RatingsA right royal success story
The top five recorded programmes of the week are all drama, with one exception: ITV’s documentary Our Queen (which makes her sound a bit like she comes from Yorkshire).
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RatingsHollywood stars for BBC
For many years, I thought Bedfordshire – a magical place at the top of our wooden stairs – was in somewhere called the Land of Nod.
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RatingsMargaret Mountford’s Pompeii destroys competition
Margaret Mountford’s special documentary aiming to dispel the myths of the catastrophic Mount Vesuvius eruption demolished the competition on Wednesday night.
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RatingsITV holds winning ticket
BBC1’s Syndicate gets off to a solid start, but Foyle’s War and Broadchurch are the week’s top dramas.
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RatingsKeeping Britain Alive hobbled by England match
BBC2’s ambitious documentary charting the work of the NHS across a single day got off to a below-par start – unaided by 8.5m viewers tuning in to see England struggle in Montenegro.
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RatingsTVC nostalgia propels BBC4 to record ratings
Nostalgic programming about the BBC’s exit from Television Centre helped BBC4 post its biggest ever weekly share of viewers.
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RatingsPlebs smashes ITV2 records
Plebs became ITV2’s biggest sitcom launch in its near 14-year history - as BBC2’s intimate documentary on the rise of Boris Johnson pulled in nearly 2.4m viewers.
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RatingsFoyle's War hooks 7m after three year break
Period detective drama Foyle’s War returned to ITV after a three year hiatus and drew a bumper 7m viewers.
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RatingsSaturday Night Takeaway climbs to new high
Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway rose to a new high beating a Dr Who special of Pointless Celebrities and the return of The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins on BBC1.
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RatingsEngland's rout of San Marino hits 6m
England’s 8-0 win over San Marino on Friday night helped ITV record an above-average performance, while BBC2’s Ancient Egypt doc drew over 2m.
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RatingsFewer TVs but more viewing
The future: it’s confusion, wrapped in contradiction inside uncertainty. Wonderbra ad man Trevor Beattie says the 30-second ad is dead: long live the bite-sized, five-second ad, or, unhelpfully, the two-minute ad.
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RatingsSpurs score for ITV4
Manicurists in London may have had a few odd visits from burly blokes on Friday morning: Tottenham fans with no nails asking for falsies.
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RatingsQueen finds an audience
ITV doc pulls in more than 5 million on Sunday as Friday’s Comic Relief wins the week for BBC1
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RatingsMimicry’s not dead on C4
As a yoof, my only skill was replicating the sound of the family telephone. For weeks, the phone would ‘ring’ at deliciously inconvenient times. My stifled giggling eventually betrayed me and I was crushed in an avalanche of telling off. Still, mimicking isn’t dead, as Channel 4’s new comedy showed.
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RatingsMartin Lewis delivers 3m to ITV
The Martin Lewis Money Show underperformed against the slot average on its return to ITV in a night of unspectacular terrestrial ratings.
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RatingsYoungers draws 450,000 to E4
E4’s new drama set on a south London housing estate Youngers pulled in an above average audience of 450,000 as the channel tested debuting an original show in the early evening slot.