All Ratings articles – Page 308
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Phone hacking Panorama fails to make a splash
WEDNESDAY: BBC2’s Panorama special on phone hacking failed to make a splash after drumming up less than a million viewers.
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England’s World Cup exit scores 9.5m
TUESDAY: ITV’s coverage of England’s final World Cup game peaked with 9.5m viewers – despite the match having little meaning for Roy Hodgson’s side.
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Benefits Britain holds steady
MONDAY: Channel 5’s welfare documentary Benefits Britain remained solid in the face of strong competition from Brazil’s final group game of the World Cup.
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Friday Night Dinner serves up 1.1m
FRIDAY: Friday Night Dinner returned for a third series with more than a million viewers.
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Fargo climax ends on a low
SUNDAY: C4’s finale of cult drama series Fargo lost out despite improving on last Sunday’s audience.
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A Question of Sport spin-off falters
SATURDAY: BBC1’s A Question of Sport spin-off launched with more than 2.7m viewers, as the World Cup continued to dominate the schedules.
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ITV’s cats take the cream
Elsewhere, two BBC1 drama trios ended, while Channel 4 will be delighted with Bear Grylls’ deserted islanders.
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CHARTS: Lizard licks competition
Sky 1’s US drama import Hawaii Five-O was up by 64,000 week-on-week (Sun, 9pm)
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CHARTS: BBC2 top for sport avoiders
For the non-World Cup channels, it was a week of two halves.
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CHARTS: England win it for BBC1
In a week dominated by the World Cup, England v Italy tops the table while Brazil v Croatia is ITV’s best.
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England defeat peaks with 20m
THURSDAY: England’s miserable defeat to Uruguay was the most-watched game of the World Cup so far, peaking with more than 20m viewers.
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Jeremy Paxman’s Newsnight finale draws 1.1m
WEDNESDAY: Jeremy Paxman went out with a bang as Newsnight pulled in its biggest audience in more than two years.
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Tigers hunt solid finale despite World Cup
WEDNESDAY: Tigers About The House and Mary’s Silver Service have mixed finales as football continues to dominate the schedule.
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C4’s Auction House outbids slot average
TUESDAY: The opening episode of The Auction House was above Channel 4’s slot average despite competition from the World Cup.
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C5 dole doc beats ITV, BBC2, C4
MONDAY: Channel 5 outperformed ITV, BBC2 and Channel 4 at 9pm, losing out only to the World Cup.
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Stand By Your Man pulls 600k
FRIDAY: Channel 5’s new dating show Stand By Your Man located an audience of 600,000 viewers as BBC1’s World Cup coverage of Spain vs Holland dominated.
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Fargo hit by World Cup
SUNDAY: Channel 4 thriller Fargo sunk to a series low of 1.1m as the World Cup clash between France and Honduras tackled an audience of 7.6m.
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England defeat nets 15.6m peak
SATURDAY: England’s opening World Cup defeat to Italy peaked with 15.6m viewers for BBC1, helping the channel score a massive 78.5% share.
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CHARTS: F1 races ahead for Sky Sports
The moral of the tale is never, ever fight someone called The Mountain That Rides.