All Ratings articles – Page 500
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RatingsSky1’s Idiot Abroad holds audience
THURSDAY: Karl Pilkington’s travelogue for Sky1 entered its second week and managed to maintain the strong viewing figures of the debut.
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RatingsInbetweeners tops ratings chart
E4 teen comedy The Inbetweeners has beaten flagship BBC and ITV shows in the consolidated ratings chart, writes Stephen Price.
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RatingsMad Men adds viewers
WEDNESDAY: BBC4 secured its highest audience in the current series of Mad Men, as the US drama continues to perform strongly for the digital channel.
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RatingsITV nets 5.8m with Man Utd match
WEDNESDAY: ITV1 scored a peak audience of nearly 5.8m viewers with coverage of the Champions League clash between Manchester United and Valencia CF.
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RatingsAutumn TV as it should be
Season of plenty as X Factor continues to grow and Downton Abbey hands ITV1 a substantial debut.
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RatingsWe’re thirsty for Celeb Juice
Travel, they say, broadens the mind, but this week that received truth was challenged by the opposite notion that actually, for some, it narrows as an idiot went east.
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RatingsSeven Days of sausages
Are education and Notting Hill the TV equivalent of sausage production? Sausages - lovely, but no one wants to see how they’re made. Education and Notting Hill - interesting, but few want the reality of them on telly.
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RatingsWhites debut cooks up 2.5m
TUESDAY: The launch of new comedy Whites and the return of Harry & Paul served up a strong night for BBC2.
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RatingsBorn Free doc claws 315,000
TUESDAY: A night devoted to the 50th anniversary of seminal wildlife book Born Free provided BBC4 with a mixed night of viewing figures.
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RatingsDCI Banks outwits Spooks
MONDAY: ITV’s new detective drama DCI Banks: Aftermath arrested more than 5.6m viewers - locking out competition from BBC1’s Spooks.
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RatingsInbetweeners breaks E4 records... again
MONDAY: Teen comedy The Inbetweeners has broken its own ratings record, securing the highest viewing figures in E4’s history.
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RatingsDownton Abbey debuts with 7.7m
SUNDAY: ITV’s grandiose new period drama Downton Abbey pulled in more than 7.6m viewers on a strong night for the commercial broadcaster, which also saw The X Factor score a record peak.
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RatingsX Factor boot camp draws 11.3m
SATURDAY: The biggest boot camp sessions in X Factor’s history drew its largest Saturday night audience of the current series.
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RatingsMore4 Miliband drama polls 130,000
FRIDAY: A satirical docudrama about the Miliband brothers drew a low turnout to More4 - the night before Ed Miliband was named the new leader of the Labour Party.
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RatingsCharles draws princely 2m for BBC2
THURSDAY: Alan Titchmarsh’s tour of Prince Charles’ home and gardens welcomed nearly 2 million viewers to BBC2.
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RatingsAn Idiot Abroad pulls 820,000 to Sky1
THURSDAY: Sky1 has scored a major hit with its new comedy travelogue, exec produced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, smashing the usual audience figures for the pay-TV channel.
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RatingsWho benefits from consolidation?
As audiences increasingly turn to time-shifted viewing, Stephen Price highlights the channels that benefit when the figures are consolidated.
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RatingsSeven Days debut pulls 1m
WEDNESDAY: Channel 4’s high profile new reality series Seven Days launched with just 1m viewers.
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RatingsBuilding and baking success
Three Fs and a B sounds like my exam results, but here it encapsulates this week’s line-up: food, football, the few and building. Channel 4 launched new shows for Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, and Kevin McCloud guided us around more slightly over-ambitious building projects.
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RatingsOld and young do battle
The Cube makes a welcome return, and viewers tune in to honour war heroes with BBC and ITV.