All articles by Stephen Price – Page 56
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5)
C4’s single doc Angry White And Proud beat slot average by 1 million (Weds, 9pm)
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RatingsBBC1 rises to the challenge
Bake Off ‘s move helped BBC1 grow its audience in a year when overall TV viewing dipped and ITV suffered a decline in share.
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RatingsFond farewell for Miranda
The last-ever episode achieved 9.5 million/32% on 1 January after 1.7 million recorded and watched.
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RatingsCBB launch puts C5 on top
C5’s latest Celebrity Big Brother launched on Wednesday with 3.1 million/15% (179,000 +1) at 9pm
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RatingsNCIS return buoys Fox
Fox’s NCIS was the best nonsport, non-news show of the week with 518,000/2% at 9pm on Friday
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RatingsThe Voice Wins The Sing-Off
BBC1 show’s return easily beats ITV’s refresh of Stars In Their Eyes with Harry Hill at the helm
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RatingsRocking start to new year
Fireworks and Queen head table for BBC1, with soaps the only ITV shows in top 20
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RatingsBBC2 plays it clever
The best performer of the week was BBC2’s Christmas University Challenge with 2.7 million/ 12% on Tuesday at 7.30pm
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RatingsGood week for film fans
ITV2’s best performer of the week was Despicable Me with 1.2 million/6% on New Year’s Day at 4.25pm.
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RatingsSpurs top the (ratings) table
The highest rating was BT Sport 1’s coverage of Tottenham v Chelsea from 5.15pm, with an average of 1.3 million/6% and a peak of 1.8 million/7% at 8pm
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RatingsXmas woe for BBC and ITV
After recording, 15.2 million people watched television across all-time on Christmas Day, down 3% on last year. Between 3pm and 11pm, where ITV and BBC1 concentrate their resources, 24 million tuned in, 4% less than last year.
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RatingsLibrarians books a strong audience
On Monday the first episode of SyFy’s new series The Librarians from US network ABC achieved 351k/1.5%
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RatingsClassy performance for Remember Me
BBC1’s spooky triptych Remember Me finished on Sunday 7 December at 9pm with a consolidated rating of 5.4million/18%
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RatingsSkint turns tables on Posh People
On Monday at 9pm, the third episode of Channel 4’s Skint (1.1million/5%;267k+1) grew by 150k week-on-week
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RatingsA quantum of success for BBC4
On Tuesday, the first of BBC4’s two-part The Secrets of Quantum Physics achieved 0.6million/2.7%
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RatingsRoyal Variety sheds a little sparkle
On Monday, ITV’s coverage of The Royal Variety Performance for 2014 achieved 6.5million/29%
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RatingsLife Story fizzles out
BBC1’s latest big-scale natural history series Life Story averaged 4.1 million/16% overall
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RatingsGently does it for Drama
It was up to Drama to fly UKTV’s flag with an episode of Inspector George Gently on Monday at 8pm with 520,000/2%
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RatingsBBC4’s Castles holds up well
On Thursday, the channel launched Castles: Britain’s Fortified History at 9pm to 630,000/ 3%