All Ratings articles – Page 488
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Ratings71 Degrees heats up
TUESDAY: Celebrity adventure show 71 Degrees North is slowly raising the mercury for ITV1, growing its audience for the fourth consecutive week.
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RatingsWhitechapel spooked by BBC1
MONDAY: ITV1’s Whitechapel lost around 300,000 viewers on last week’s debut, leaving room for rival crime thriller Spooks to claim the spoils.
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RatingsInbetweeners ends on a high
MONDAY: The third series of E4 comedy The Inbetweeners drew to a close with record audience figures.
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RatingsDownton Abbey hits new high
SUNDAY: ITV’s stately drama Downton Abbey continued to outclass the competition, recording its highest audience of the series so far.
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RatingsLive X Factor scores 13m peak
SATURDAY: The X Factor continued its Saturday night dominance, entertaining a peak audience of 13m as the contestants emulated their musical heroes.
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RatingsNorman Wisdom tribute draws 2.37m
FRIDAY: A special tribute show to the late actor Norman Wisdom bolstered BBC2’s audience, beating a C4 roast of Davina McCall and US drama on Five.
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RatingsEating up the TV schedules
With so much cooking and general foodiness around, this week I felt like I had stumbled into one of Heston Blumenthal’s more exquisitely eccentric menus: a last minute change to the starter, which arrived a day early, followed by a main course of annoying suits, garnished with Preparation H, and ...
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RatingsMixed fortunes for BBC1 comedies
THURSDAY: The return of Have I Got News for You and Martin Clunes comedy Reggie Perrin generated a mixed response on BBC1.
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RatingsDCI Banks takes on Spooks
This week, in a dramatic network clash, BBC1’s spies and ITV1’s new lugubrious detective went head-to-head. But who arrested the biggest consolidated audience?
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RatingsBBC Breakfast extends lead over Daybreak
WEDNESDAY: BBC Breakfast pulled in a million more viewers than ITV’s Daybreak yesterday - the largest gap in audience since last month’s overhaul of the commercial broadcaster’s morning show.
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RatingsFilm 2010 premieres with 1m
WEDNESDAY: The new look Film 2010 premiered with more than 1m viewers, topping the show’s average performance earlier this year.
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RatingsSlow start for Sky’s Thorne
Amid the usual suspects of factual, entertainment, brand extensions and, of course, The Inbetweeners (2.2 million/11% excl+1), Sky 1 launched its latest mainstream big-scale drama.
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RatingsA case for detective dramas
Popular crime follows in Poe’s footsteps while the entertainment juggernauts collide.
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RatingsAlan Davies comedy loses 1m
TUESDAY: BBC2’s kitchen comedy Whites has struggled to stay on the boil, losing nearly a million viewers since its debut two weeks ago.
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RatingsLip Service paid to 600,000
TUESDAY: The debut of BBC3’s new lesbian drama helped boost the digital channel’s usual audience figures.
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RatingsAnother high for Inbetweeners
MONDAY: E4 comedy The Inbetweeners has broken its own record for the highest-rated show in the history of the digital channel.
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RatingsWhitechapel returns with 5.6m
MONDAY: The return of ITV gothic detective drama Whitechapel collared more than 5.6m viewers, beating BBC1 spy thriller Spooks.
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RatingsSky pulls 400,000 with Thorne
SUNDAY: Sky1’s new detective drama starring David Morrissey drew an above average performance on its debut - as ITV2 smashed its usual audience figures with new reality series The Only Way is Essex.
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RatingsDavid Tennant drama raises 5m
SUNDAY: BBC1’s new drama Single Father, starring David Tennant, failed to raise as large an audience as ITV’s period drama Downton Abbey.
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RatingsLive X Factor draws 13m
SATURDAY: The X Factor live rounds sparked into action with a peak audience of more than 13 million, as Harry Hill and Piers Morgan returned with new series - completing a heavyweight Saturday night line-up on ITV1.