All Overnight ratings articles – Page 166
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RatingsOff-key performance from One Direction on C4
Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain set off with an audience of 4m on Thursday, as a Channel 4 doc about boy band One Direction fell over 1m short of the slot average.
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RatingsSpazticus & Boom Town launch as England scores 9m peak
England’s victory over Scotland in Wednesday’s international football friendly peaked with 9m viewers on ITV as Chanel 4’s I’m Spazticus and BBC3’s Boom Town launched with below par audiences.
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RatingsC4 signs on 2m for Benefits Britain
Twenty Twenty’s Benefits Britain 1949 scored over 2m viewers for Channel 4 on Monday, while Long Lost Family recorded its best series performance.
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RatingsThat Puppet Show fails to string along viewers
BBC1’s That Puppet Show and I Love My Country both failed to magic up a decent audience against an ITV repeat of Harry Potter on Saturday night.
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RatingsField of Blood runs to over 3m
The return of BBC1 drama The Field of Blood produced over 1m more viewers than the first series debut on Thursday, while BBC2’s The Men Who Made Us Thin shrank from Jacques Peretti’s previous series performance.
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RatingsHow Not To Get Old provides elixir for 1.5m
Channel 4 anti-ageing series How Not To Get Old got underway with 1.4m viewers on Wednesday as Channel 5’s new ob-doc Nurses broke the 1m viewers mark.
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RatingsDoctor Who reveal records nearly 7m
Peter Capaldi’s introduction as the latest Doctor Who, unsurprisingly, drew a large number of viewers on Sunday, while Channel 4’s latest drama Southcliffe performed well.
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RatingsI Love My Country fails to unite viewers
BBC1’s sporting quiz show I Love My Country failed to overcome Your Face Sounds Familiar on Saturday evening as the ITV1 gameshow ended with its second highest outing.
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RatingsC4 music pilot struggles to hit the right notes
Channel 4’s latest music pilot, fronted by Nick Grimshaw, struggled to find viewers on Friday night, while viewers swarmed to BBC2’s Horizon special on bees.
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RatingsCouncil House doc moves 2m into C4
Channel 4’s new series How To Get a Council House moved in to the schedule with an audience of over 2m on Thursday.
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RatingsCelebrity Masterchef cooks up 5m
Celebrity Masterchef was watched by 4.7m viewers on Wednesday as it swapped to BBC1 from last year’s outing on BBC2.
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RatingsNew Tricks stays strong
The new series of New Tricks arrested all-comers on Tuesday night, performing in line with last year’s opener.
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RatingsLong Lost Family continues to locate viewers
ITV’s Long Lost Family continued to dominate the Monday night ratings, again locating more than 5m viewers.
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RatingsOlympic ceremony repeat beats Björk & Attenborough
Björk’s unlikely collaboration with Sir David Attenborough could barely muster 500,000 viewers for Channel 4 on Saturday and was beaten by a BBC3 repeat of the Olympic opening ceremony.
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RatingsThe Mill prospers for C4
The Mill was Channel 4’s biggest drama series launch in three years in a strong Sunday night for ratings.
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RatingsUsain Bolt peaks with 4m
Usain Bolt returned to London on Friday evening and helped BBC1’s Olympic anniversary celebrations to a peak audience of more than 4m.
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RatingsEwan McGregor's Hebrides rises
Ewan McGregor’s BBC2 Hebrides doc and C5’s The Hotel Inspector continued to perform well on Thursday, while The Briefs locked in a smaller audience for ITV.
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RatingsSky1's The Cafe reopens with smaller audience
The return of Who Do You Think You Are? located 5m viewers for BBC1 on Wednesday as Sky1’s The Cafe reopened with an audience half the size of its series one debut.
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RatingsLuther finale underperforms
Luther bowed out with its second biggest audience of the series on Tuesday – but it failed to match the performance of its 2011 climax.
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RatingsRoyal baby fails to outshine Corrie
News of the royal baby’s arrival failed to tear viewers away from Coronation Street on Monday evening.