All 7-day consolidated ratings articles – Page 30

  • Geordie Shore
    Ratings

    A Shore-fire hit for MTV

    2013-07-26T09:59:00Z

    And the heat goes on; it’s great.I’ve forgotten what long trousers are like.

  • Luther
    Ratings

    Luther packs a punch for BBC

    2013-07-22T10:04:00Z

    Neil Cross’s drama returned to 5 million on its original TX, a decent number but slightly lacking the punch of the 5.5 million who tuned in for series two’s opener back in 2011.

  • Secrets of the Workhouse
    Ratings

    Hard labour benefits ITV

    2013-07-11T08:30:00Z

    It’s like working in the tropics: blinds on the windows, electric fan wafting warm-ish air from side to side and causing occasional trouser-fluttering surprise when I’d forgotten about it.

  • LONG_LOST_FAMILY_
    Ratings

    Family affair boosts ITV

    2013-07-04T16:25:00Z

    Does the god of news have a woe-ometer and is it cranked up to 10? Everything seems full of woe, and now it seems the lights may go out because the donkey peddling the power stations is running out of hay.

  • The_White_Queen1
    Ratings

    White Queen rules okay

    2013-06-28T15:50:00Z

    As demonstrated by the Live Aid performance, a Queen has a certain powerful aura.

  • The Apprentice
    Ratings

    BBC’s slot swap fails

    2013-06-14T10:46:00Z

    When Swap Shop burst onto our screens all those years ago, it was like a TV programme beamed from Mars.

  • Storage Hunters US
    Ratings

    Dave clears up with Storage

    2013-06-06T14:11:00Z

    We all have one. A cupboard stuffed with everything that has no home anywhere else.

  • Doctor Who
    Ratings

    A mixed bag for the Doctor

    2013-05-30T13:13:00Z

    As is traditional, Doctor Who enjoyed a resurgence as the latest series reached its climax – but it could not match the opener of this eight-part run.

  • For The Love Of Dogs
    Ratings

    Going to the dogs suits ITV

    2013-05-24T16:54:00Z

    Around the corner from my house is a dog-walking emporium. As the chaotic canine circus hurtles by, it becomes clear that at the doggy meeting beforehand, the motion demanding anarchy carried the day.

  • The Job Lot
    Ratings

    Sitcom double trouble for ITV

    2013-05-17T16:52:00Z

    The phrase ‘double bill’ still resonates in my mind with memories of unruly behaviour in the cinema at Saturday morning kids’ club, which usually left the tearful boss, tended by an usherette, lying prone and covered in popcorn.

  • The Following
    Ratings

    Sky’s mighty Following

    2013-05-10T15:00:00Z

    When, 150 years ago, Ebenezer Morley sat around a pub table to establish the Football League by saying “right then lads, get the pints in and let’s codify footie”, I don’t imagine a voice piped up at the back: “Don’t forget the Dow Jones Index.”

  • Da Vinci’s Demons
    Ratings

    Fox cracks the Da Vinci code

    2013-05-03T11:56:00Z

    If Leonardo Da Vinci even knew where or what South Wales was, I bet that, equipped as he was with something of a wild imagination, he would never have thought that one day a fictionalised account of his life would be filmed in Port Talbot.

  • Geordie Shore
    Ratings

    The Geordies shore up MTV

    2013-04-26T12:28:00Z

    The occasionally disturbing thing about having the music system on random play is that you get quite an eclectic menu.

  • Doctor Who
    Ratings

    The Doctor is in rude health

    2013-04-12T17:54:00Z

    So Doctor Who has returned with another new assistant. For each new sidekick, everything always comes as a big surprise.

  • Ghost Adventures
    Ratings

    Ghosts make Really jump

    2013-04-05T17:15:00Z

    I was in a bit of a bind this week after locking myself out while daringly rescuing a stray cat from the garden.

  • Our Queen
    Ratings

    A right royal success story

    2013-03-28T11:33:00Z

    The top five recorded programmes of the week are all drama, with one exception: ITV’s documentary Our Queen (which makes her sound a bit like she comes from Yorkshire).

  • Broadchurch
    Ratings

    Fewer TVs but more viewing

    2013-03-22T15:28:00Z

    The future: it’s confusion, wrapped in contradiction inside uncertainty. Wonderbra ad man Trevor Beattie says the 30-second ad is dead: long live the bite-sized, five-second ad, or, unhelpfully, the two-minute ad.

  • derek
    Ratings

    The Brits do for Derek

    2013-03-15T15:57:00Z

    A wise sage once said to me: “You aren’t going outside dressed like that are you?” Days later, a different sage ventured that a repeat is only a repeat if you haven’t seen it; how true.

  • Black Mirror
    Ratings

    Extra shine for Black Mirror

    2013-03-08T10:55:00Z

    Getting into a lift in busy, cacophonous Tunis, with all its ancient Carthaginian history and recent rebelliousness, it feels rather incongruous to stand in an airtight box listening to classic piano for 20 seconds.

  • Horsepower
    Ratings

    Top tips for recording hits

    2013-02-22T17:42:00Z

    I don’t write this column very often, so I hope you’ll indulge me in a list of five reasons why some programmes might increase their consolidated audience significantly more than others.