All articles by Stephen Price – Page 58
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV’s Cilla ends on a high note
Final instalment proves too strong for BBC1’s New Tricks, but Bake Off nets best ever overnight
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RatingsCHARTS: Strictly waltzes it on Friday
BBC dance contest beats ITV rival The X Factor as shows go head-to-head at 9pm on the night
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RatingsCHARTS: Marvellous hit for BBC2
On Thursday at 9pm, BBC2’s appropriately named drama Marvellous achieved 1.5 million/8% for 90 minutes.
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RatingsCHARTS: Plebs return on par for ITV2
The second series of ITV2’s comedy began with a double bill on Monday with 760,000/5% and 700,000/ 5%
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RatingsCHARTS: Golf swings it for Sky Sports
The best Ryder Cup performance on Sky Sports 4 was Sunday’s 923,000/9% from 10am for nine hours
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RatingsDownton down on 2013
In Downton, standards are Dowager high and 2014’s 10 million-plus start is, well, smaller than last year’s
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RatingsX-Factor’s still top dog – just
BBC1’s The Great British Bake Off finished just 85,000 behind ITV’s Saturday edition of The X Factor on 10.2 million/43%; the biggest show of the week
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RatingsCHARTS: Tasty Leftovers for Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic’s new US drama The Leftovers launched on Tuesday at 9pm to 231,000/1%
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RatingsCHARTS: An Education in repeats
On Tuesday at 10pm, BBC3’s Bad Education returned for a third series with 762,000/5%
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RatingsCHARTS: BBC2’s slice of success
On Friday at 9pm, BBC2’s The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice achieved its best rating so far (2.6 million/13%) for half an hour.
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RatingsCHARTS: Cilla and Downton on song
ITV’s biopic of the Liverpudlian singer and the return of the Crawleys give broadcaster the edge
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RatingsEven spoils in clash of titans
Ah, school. Even now, the discordant rattle of a classroom door rekindles memories of milk warming by the radiator, the stress in delivering a Valentine card when she barely even knows you exist, the jam jars speckled with paint and the eye-bulging concentration required to play the trumpet.
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RatingsStonehenge solid for BBC2
Family holidays usually involved driving along the A303, but I never remembered to look up from my pristine Beano Summer Special in time to see Stonehenge properly.
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RatingsRatings analysis: the weekend starts here...
How sleeper hit Gogglebox has helped Channel 4 in the battle for Friday nights
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RatingsRizzoli & Isles on par for Alibi
It’s rare nowadays to come across a place of which you haven’t previously heard. With information so swift, no place is hidden. But recently I thought I’d found one.
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RatingsSour return for Lemon
‘Squeamish’ is an understatement. If the word ‘brain’ is plonked in the same sentence as ‘stem’ and ‘cell’, the world starts a-whirlin’ and it might be “look out floor, here I come”.
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RatingsBest ever Bake Off for BBC1
The already notorious Alaska-in-the-bin saga – consolidated to 10.3 million/39% after a whopping 2.1 million recorded and watched.
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RatingsCHARTS: Dynamo casts spell for Watch
Watch’s Dynamo: Magician Impossible returned on Thursday for a fourth series at 9pm and its 551,000/3% was the best non-sport rating of the week.
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RatingsCHARTS: Bright Lights fades on BBC4
Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale Of Three Cities hit a series low on Wednesday with 208,000/1%
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RatingsCHARTS: Quiz night win for BBC2
Only Connect more than doubled its final BBC4 audience (831,000) on its BBC2 transfer.