All 7-day consolidated ratings articles – Page 31
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RatingsHD boost for BBC shows
Just how smart are smart TVs? Do they know the capital of France, the average weight of cheese or why England’s cricket team can be brilliant then suddenly hopeless? Do they know why we are all here? Probably not.
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RatingsA matter of life and death
Murder among palm trees, prisons and serial killers whetted the viewers’ appetite this week and, by Jove, they lapped them all up with a spoon.
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RatingsBirth, death and taxes
Somewhere in the pages of Margaret Mitchell’s voluminous novel Gone With The Wind there is a line that laments: ‘Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never a convenient time for any of them!’
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RatingsTomfoolery is the top draw
Ratings are strong for just the kind of madness that soothes the soul.
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RatingsITV makes a big Splash!
And we’re off. No sooner has Christmas finished than TV gets its glad rags on to entice us with all-new trimmings as each broadcaster seeks to get the year going with some oomph.
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RatingsRecording tips the scales
A study of ancient history reveals that in 2006, total live viewing on Christmas Day between 3pm and 11pm averaged 20.4 million.
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RatingsViewers flock to taboo TV
Congressman Brody’s taboos in Homeland are pretty dark, what with his central role in international terrorism aided by some barking plot wrangling – and oh, for goodness sake, just put those two ridiculous kids in jail and be done with it.
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RatingsNot the end of the world
If you recorded the Apocalypse, what would standing at the office watercooler the next day be like? Paper cups full of cockroaches probably, and no one to spoil the ending.
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RatingsBeware the grizzly bear
One of the most chanted refrains emanating from the US elections was the Obama camp’s “four more years”. In the even more ruthless world of American TV, it’s often a more plaintive “four more episodes”.
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FeaturesBake Off beats critics
Alas and alack the cakes, buns, bunting and icing sugar are but a memory. Alas and alack for BBC2 anyway, for everyone else the end of The Great British Bake Off might evoke a more bitter ‘thank goodness, get lost’.
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RatingsDownton on an upper
Downton Abbey continues to prove that the UK’s appetite for costume melodrama remains unabated, as the latest consolidated episode, which aired on 7 October, is again at the top of the table.
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NewsTidy time for MTV’s Valleys
Perhaps the most famous of all Welsh poet and drinker Dylan Thomas’ works is Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, with its epic exhortation to “rage, rage against the dying of the light”.
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FeaturesRatings blip is no joke for C4
At school, my maths teacher had a very distinctive non-local accent, with which I became so fascinated that I often ignored the sums.
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FeaturesSame again for Downton
ITV1’s Downton Abbey and Sky1’s Moone Boy picked up strong audiences after consolidation.
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FeaturesBaking – or rampaging?
ITV1’s The Jury and A Mother’s Son, Sky Atlantic series The British, BBC2’s Great British Bake Off and Channel 5’s Dallas all picked up strong audiences after consolidation.
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RatingsDoctor Who’s back with a bang
Doctor Who’s return to BBC1 was recorded by nearly 2m viewers making it one of the highest rating episodes in close to two years.
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RatingsRoyal in-laws woo viewers
The full gamut of the dramatic narrative was on display this week. It felt a bit like being at school in double English, studying a very thick and intense book full of meaning, apparently, and then rushing home to watch Hong Kong Phooey.
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RatingsWeight loss gains viewers
The Hairy Bikers quest to lose weight was recorded by nearly half a million BBC2 viewers taking it to the best audience of the series.
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RatingsOlympics take the honours
It all feels like a faraway dream: the wild cheering, the tears of joy/despair and the super-human feats amid the general balmy madness of the Olympics.
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FeaturesViewers want to have fun
For all time, seemingly, the news has been dominated by grey men and women talking solemnly about the financial crises and scandals that afflict our daily lives, assuring us all that this time it’s all fixed; it never is. So it’s no big surprise that the Olympics has caught fire ...