All Ratings articles – Page 500
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RatingsViewers choose Life over murder
Sir David Attenborough made a triumphant return to TV last night, with his latest BBC1 wildlife series Life enchanting 6.5m (26.4%) at 9pm.
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RatingsBenidorm outshines Criminal Justice finale
Criminal Justice ended its week-long run with a solid 4.4m (18.8% share) tuning in to BBC1 at 9pm on Friday night, but was no match for ITV1’s Benidorm.
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RatingsDoc Martin buoyed by X Factor frenzy
ITV1 surged ahead on Sunday night, with Doc Martin picking up 506,000 more viewers, while more than 837,000 people deserted BBC1’s Emma after last week’s first episode.
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RatingsX Factor triumphs with first live show
ITV1 won the Saturday night ratings battle for the fourth week in a row, with The X Factor edging out Strictly Come Dancing and Casualty with an average of 11.3m viewers (43.8%) over two hours from 8pm.
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RatingsCriminal Justice dips a further 200,000
Criminal Justice lost another 200,000 viewers last night, but its average of 4.2m (18.4%) was still more than enough for BBC1 to snatch the 9pm crown from long-running ITV1 drama The Bill.
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RatingsTrue Blood seduces 1.6m
Channel 4 had mixed fortunes with its double-bill of HBO big-hitters last night, with vampire fantasy True Blood luring in 1.6m (10.2%) but Iraq war drama Generation Kill mustering interest in just 399,000 (6.5%).
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RatingsNo extentions on Katie Price
Apologies this week if I sound a bit like a broken record as I point out that ITV2’s What Katie Did Next (1.1 million, 5%) is comfortably the highest non-brand extension, non-sports show in the multichannel world.
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RatingsSeason of cops and football
As autumn kicked off this week, the Uefa match scored for ITV and BBC1 showed its criminal expertise.
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RatingsCriminal Justice picks up speed
The second episode of BBC1’s stripped five-part Criminal Justice comfortably outperformed ITV1’s The Fixer with 4.7m viewers (19.9%) last night.
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RatingsITV1's Blue Murder trumps Criminal Justice
The return of Criminal Justice pulled in 4.4m viewers (18.9%) for BBC1 last night, but ITV1 inched ahead in the 9pm drama battle with Blue Murder attracting 4.6m (19.7%).
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RatingsBBC1 lost in Austen as Doc Martin triumphs
BBC1’s latest adaptation of classic novel Emma struggled to reach much more than half as many viewers as ITV1’s Doc Martin, with 4.4m (17%) tuning in to see Romola Garai take on Austen’s heroine at 9pm.
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RatingsBenidorm back with 6m
Benidorm was back with a bang for ITV1 on Friday night with more than 6m tuning in for the launch of the latest season.
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RatingsKylie helps X Factor fend off Strictly
Kylie Minogue’s special appearance on the X Factor helped ITV1 see off Strictly Come Dancing for the third week in a row on Saturday, with the show peaking with an audience of 12m.
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RatingsBill boosted by New Tricks no-show
ITV1 won the Thursday night 9pm battle for the first time since moving The Bill to a post-watershed slot last night, with 4.2m tuning in.
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RatingsUnited's win gives ITV1 ratings victory
The Champions League debut of German team Wolfsburg against Manchester United scored a peak of 6.7m (30%) for ITV1 last night, blasting away the competition.
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RatingsQuest debuts on Freeview with 82,000 peak
Discovery’s new Freeview channel Quest made a slow but steady start on its launch yesterday, with a peak of 82,000 tuning in to a documentary on the search for Noah’s Arc.
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RatingsFighting for attention
Violet Elizabeth Bott screamed and screamed until she was sick, but still William Brown would take no notice.
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RatingsBBC2 traveller beats C4 Tour
BBC2 launched a new travelogue to compete with Channel 4’s Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour on Sunday, but otherwise much of the week was in established patterns.
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RatingsNearly 2m see Wilson put Two Feet in the Grave
Actor Richard Wilson kicked some life into BBC1’s ratings last night with his documentary on death attracting a peak audience of 1.9m (13.5%).