All Ratings articles – Page 498
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RatingsPrince Harry dramadoc captures 900,000
THURSDAY: Channel 4’s controversial dramatised documentary depicting the results of Prince Harry being captured while serving on the front line in Afghanistan failed to top the million mark.
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RatingsRecording an appetite for drama
High quality drama, the Inbetweeners and Lord Sugar pushed The X Factor out of the top ten most-recorded programmes for the first week of October.
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RatingsSpurs fightback peaks at 5m
WEDNESDAY: Tottenham Hotspur’s glorious defeat to Champions League rivals Inter Milan peaked with an audience of more than 5m just 10 minutes into the game.
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RatingsHoorah for the horror
Kurtz’s final words in The Heart Of Darkness were ‘the horror, the horror’. BBC4 was probably shouting ‘Hoorah, the horror’ as its History Of Horror movies began.
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RatingsBBC4 ratings rocket for Men in the Moon
TUESDAY: Special sci-fi drama The First Men in the Moon sent BBC4’s ratings skyward, landing an audience of nearly 840,000.
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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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RatingsA case for detective dramas
Popular crime follows in Poe’s footsteps while the entertainment juggernauts collide.
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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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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.