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RatingsApprentice takes shine off BGT
WEDNESDAY: The Apprentice attracted its smallest audience of the series but still managed to take the shine off ITV juggernauts Britain’s Got Talent and Coronation Street.
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RatingsPanorama patient abuse probe draws 3m
TUESDAY: A Panorama investigation into patient abuse at a residential hospital, which has led to the arrests of four people in Bristol, drew more than 3m viewers.
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RatingsSimon Cowell boosts BGT ratings
BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY: Simon Cowell’s return to Britain’s Got Talent helped pull more than a million extra viewers to the ITV show.
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RatingsMerton takes 1.8m to Hollywood
FRIDAY: Paul Merton’s new series looking at the history of Hollywood debuted with a strong audience for BBC2.
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RatingsBarcelona victory scores 11m
SATURDAY: Barcelona’s Champions League triumph over Manchester United netted a peak audience of more than 11m viewers for ITV.
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RatingsScott & Bailey debuts with 7.9m
SUNDAY: New female crime fighting duo Scott & Bailey helped ITV to its biggest drama launch audience in years.
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RatingsPsychoville scares away viewers
THURSDAY: Dark comedy Psychoville is scaring away viewers having lost nearly half of its audience since launching on BBC2 earlier this month.
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RatingsThe Apprentice hires 7.5m
WEDNESDAY: The Apprentice posted its second biggest audience of the current series as the budding entrepreneurs were tasked with selling beauty products.
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RatingsFour Rooms opens doors to 950,000
TUESDAY: Channel 4’s new antiques show Four Rooms got off to a slow start only managing to secure around half of the slot average audience.
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RatingsStrangeways ends sentence on ratings high
MONDAY: Prison documentary Strangeways bowed out on a ratings high, making it one of ITV1’s most successful factual series in the past decade.
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RatingsVera edges out the Baftas
SUNDAY: The final part of ITV1 drama Vera just edged out competition from BBC1’s coverage of the Bafta Television Awards.
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RatingsDirk Gently investigated by 1.1m
FRIDAY: Comedy drama Dirk Gently has made its terrestrial debut, growing the number of viewers that first caught the Douglas Adams adaptation on BBC4.
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RatingsSo You Think You Can Dance hits new low
SATURDAY: BBC1’s So You Think You Can Dance took another tumble, recording its lowest audience of the series to date.
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RatingsQuestion Time prison special locks in 2.9m
THURSDAY: A Question Time prison special, featuring embattled justice secretary Ken Clarke, helped lock in a strong audience.
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RatingsBritish Soap Awards second worst on record
WEDNESDAY: The British Soap Awards attracted the second lowest audience in its history and was beaten by The Apprentice in the 9pm slot.
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RatingsITV homeless series struggles
TUESDAY: ITV1’s celebrity homelessness series was trumped by both Channel 4 and Channel 5 in the primetime slot.
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RatingsBBC street experiment struggles
MONDAY: BBC1 experiment The Street That Cut Everything was roundly beaten by the second part of ITV1’s unflinching prison documentary Strangeways.
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RatingsVera sunk by Pirates of the Caribbean
SUNDAY: ITV1 detective drama Vera recorded it best audience of the series, but was still sunk by Jack Sparrow’s first outing in Pirates of the Caribbean.
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RatingsEurovision best in a decade
SATURDAY: The Eurovision Song Contest recorded its best performance in a decade, but was still beaten by Britain’s Got Talent over the 8pm hour.
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RatingsShadow Line loses 1m
THURSDAY: BBC2 crime drama The Shadow Line lost nearly a million viewers but remained above slot average, as ITV1’s Long Lost Family recorded its second best audience of the series.