All Overnight ratings articles – Page 238
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RatingsCasualty slips with Sunday move
Shifting Casualty to Sunday night against The X Factor did not sit well for viewers last night, with just 4.4m (15.6%) tuning in to BBC1, but BBC2’s Last Chance to See fared better, ending its six-week run with a respectable 3m (10.4%).
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RatingsX Factor hits record 14.8m high
A record 14.8m viewers tuned in to last night’s episode of The X Factor - smashing the peak audience from last year’s finale and sealing a huge ratings weekend for Simon Cowell’s juggernaut.
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RatingsBBC1's New Tricks trounces ITV1's Bill
BBC1’s regular trick of deploying ratings bomb New Tricks against The Bill once again unsettled the ITV1 cop drama last night.
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RatingsEngland win scores 8.3m for ITV1
England’s 3-0 victory over Belarus helped ITV1 clean up in the ratings, with a peak audience of 8.3m (36%) as it entered its climax.
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RatingsC4 feels The Force as ITV1 struggles
Channel 4’s feature length, ‘real life CSI’ doc The Force was a surprise hit last night, as ITV1’s Joan Collins makeover show floundered.
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RatingsViewers choose Life over murder
Sir David Attenborough made a triumphant return to TV last night, with his latest BBC1 wildlife series Life enchanting 6.5m (26.4%) at 9pm.
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RatingsBenidorm outshines Criminal Justice finale
Criminal Justice ended its week-long run with a solid 4.4m (18.8% share) tuning in to BBC1 at 9pm on Friday night, but was no match for ITV1’s Benidorm.
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RatingsCriminal Justice dips a further 200,000
Criminal Justice lost another 200,000 viewers last night, but its average of 4.2m (18.4%) was still more than enough for BBC1 to snatch the 9pm crown from long-running ITV1 drama The Bill.
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RatingsCriminal Justice picks up speed
The second episode of BBC1’s stripped five-part Criminal Justice comfortably outperformed ITV1’s The Fixer with 4.7m viewers (19.9%) last night.
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RatingsBBC1 lost in Austen as Doc Martin triumphs
BBC1’s latest adaptation of classic novel Emma struggled to reach much more than half as many viewers as ITV1’s Doc Martin, with 4.4m (17%) tuning in to see Romola Garai take on Austen’s heroine at 9pm.
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RatingsBenidorm back with 6m
Benidorm was back with a bang for ITV1 on Friday night with more than 6m tuning in for the launch of the latest season.
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RatingsKylie helps X Factor fend off Strictly
Kylie Minogue’s special appearance on the X Factor helped ITV1 see off Strictly Come Dancing for the third week in a row on Saturday, with the show peaking with an audience of 12m.
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RatingsBill boosted by New Tricks no-show
ITV1 won the Thursday night 9pm battle for the first time since moving The Bill to a post-watershed slot last night, with 4.2m tuning in.
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RatingsUnited's win gives ITV1 ratings victory
The Champions League debut of German team Wolfsburg against Manchester United scored a peak of 6.7m (30%) for ITV1 last night, blasting away the competition.
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RatingsNearly 2m see Wilson put Two Feet in the Grave
Actor Richard Wilson kicked some life into BBC1’s ratings last night with his documentary on death attracting a peak audience of 1.9m (13.5%).
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RatingsFlashForward peaks with 3.6m on Five
Five’s new US drama FlashForward jumped ahead in the ratings last night, with a huge 3.2m (13.2%) tuning in for the premiere episode at 9pm.
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RatingsDirty Dancing gives Five the time of its life
Patrick Swayze danced up a big audience for Five last night, with 2m ( 9.5%) tuning in between 9pm and 11.05pm for the feel good romantic movie Dirty Dancing.
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RatingsBrown down as Spy event sags
Illusionist Derren Brown couldn’t conjure up another massive audience for C4 on Friday night, with just 1.8m (8.2%) tuning in for his third event at 9pm.
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RatingsStrictly closes on X Factor
The X Factor triumphed over Strictly Come Dancing for the second week in a row on Saturday, although the gap between the juggernauts narrowed a fraction.
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RatingsBBC1's Wounded soldiers doc reaches 2.9m
BBC1 documentary Wounded, which focussed on injured soldiers following their return from Afghanistan, drew 2.9m viewers at 9pm last night but was no match for ITV1’s cosy crime stalwart Midsomer Murders.