All Ratings articles – Page 317
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RatingsMichael McIntyre ties with Graham Norton
Michael McIntyre’s talk show launched in line with Graham Norton’s 2005 chat show The Bigger Picture on Monday.
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RatingsCall The Midwife delivers 8m
Call The Midwife bowed out with a series low but still easily won the 8pm slot on Sunday night.
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RatingsAnt & Dec overtake The Voice
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway overtook The Voice UK for the first time this year on Saturday.
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RatingsGogglebox turns on record audience
Broadcast Award-winning Gogglebox returned for a third series on Friday with its biggest audience to date.
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Ratings37 Days dawns with 2.2m
BBC2’s 37 Days launched with more than 2m viewers on Thursday, while Birds of a Feather has secured a recommission after smashing the slot average.
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RatingsLine Of Duty fights back
It’s likely that series two of BBC2’s Line Of Duty was dispatched into the world with robust hopes after the dramatic denouement of series one.
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RatingsSheriff blows away Smoke
If Dave ever decides to put a magician inside one of an array of cupboards and then get some assertive Americans to shout about them before buying the one they think he’s in, the channel could have a hit on its hands.
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RatingsNew Hair suits BBC3
When the Oscar nominations were first announced, one strong contender was American Hustle.
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RatingsHastings wins battle of docs
Appositely, as sabres rattle in Eastern Europe, BBC2 played two programmes on the outbreak of the First World War.
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RatingsBBC puts ITV up the Creek
The fear of all middle-managers is the dreaded call to attend an executive training course involving role-playing.
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RatingsFamily Guy on top for BBC3
Family Guy was the only show to top 500,000 viewers for BBC3 on Wednesday as Festivals, Sex and Suspicious Parents and Ja’mie Private School Girl were below slot average.
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RatingsDeath in Paradise ends happily
The third series of Death in Paradise bowed out on Tuesday with an average audience around 400,000 viewers larger than the previous run.
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RatingsMary Berry Cooks serves 3.2m
Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry served up another treat for BBC2 viewers on Monday as her solo series drew more than 3m viewers.
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RatingsDragons' Den investment pays off
Dragons’ Den ended its latest run with a strong performance on Sunday, while The Musketeers continued to struggle against Mr Selfridge.
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RatingsJonathan Creek murders the competition
BBC1’s Jonathan Creek returned for its first full series in a decade with 6.3m viewers on Friday – more than three times the audience of ITV’s new comedy drama Edge of Heaven.
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RatingsThe Voice UK takes a tumble
The Voice UK’s audience took a tumble as it entered its battle rounds on Saturday, but it still managed to fight off Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.
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RatingsSky 1’s Stella holds steady
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Marlon Brando’s bad boy Stanley stands at the foot of the steamy New Orleans apartment’s stairs and screams “Hey Stella!”. Stella’s languid descent ends in a slightly sweaty tryst; Romeo and Juliet it ain’t.
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RatingsLow launch for Moone Boy
As a nipper, I lived opposite Cardiff City striker and local hero Johnny Vincent, and then in Northampton in the same street as cricketing wizard Mushtaq Mohammad. So when Sky 1’s Moones stumbled across Irish World Cup hero Patrick ‘Packie’ Bonner’s house while on holiday, I understood.
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RatingsKnox doubles with repeats
One day in 1989, I came home to my shabby flat and even shabbier flatmates to be confronted with the sight of a gently listing bin spewing its contents, mostly the previous night’s curry, across the living room floor.
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RatingsThe Taste falls to new low
The sliding-about-a-lot has ended and GB won four medals, the best return since 1924; the year Mallory and Irving were lost trying to ascend Everest for the first time.