All Ratings articles – Page 319
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RatingsLizzy Yarnold gold sets Olympics high
The BBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics hit its highest peak on Friday for Lizzy Yarnold’s golden dash in the women’s skeleton.
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RatingsBenidorm bows out with 5.8m
Benidorm bowed out on Thursday with its second biggest audience of the series, unseating Inspector George Gently as the top show in the 9pm slot.
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RatingsDCI Banks battles BBC’s War
Among the running and jumping of summer 2012, we grappled with the spelling of Taekwando.
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RatingsMother fails to match geeks
South America is about to be everywhere, what with the Brazil World Cup this year and the Rio Olympics in 2016.
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RatingsDave delivers with Dynamo
If you asked most people who Steven Frayne was, they’d probably stare blankly at you; if you said Dynamo, most would probably recall the magician.
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RatingsTomorrow’s success today
Ardent fans of Scottish League One football still long for one result when Methil’s finest take on the pride of Angus: East Fife 4, Forfar 5.
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RatingsBBC2 skates ahead of ITV
If ever there was a right time to announce the relinquishing of the BBC2 Quill of Control, it would be after news like this: BBC2’s Saturday and Sunday combined all-time share (12%) beat ITV’s (9.8%).
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RatingsLine Of Duty audience halves
Line Of Duty returned to BBC2 on Wednesday with an audience around half the size of the series one debut.
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RatingsTroy magics up 800k for E4
Troy, E4’s latest street magician, opened strongly on Tuesday, beating competition from BBC2 in the slot.
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RatingsBenefits Street biggest C4 series since 2011
Benefits Street lost some of its shine for its finale on Monday, but still became Channel 4’s biggest series in three years.
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RatingsSalamander starts steadily
Belgian crime drama Salamander got underway for BBC4 on Saturday with an audience in line with The Bridge opener.
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RatingsDanny Boyle’s Babylon arrests 1.6m
Channel 4’s Danny Boyle-directed comedy drama pilot Babylon failed to arrest a big audience on Sunday - as The Musketeers continued to lose viewers.
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RatingsWinter Olympics curtain raiser draws over 3m
The Winter Olympics opening ceremony skated off with a 3.4m peak on Friday - as Sky 1 launched Lee Mack’s Duck Quacks Don’t Echo to almost 360k viewers.
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RatingsAntiques have value for BBC1
More than 111 million people watched the Super Bowl in the US. I’m not a great fan of knickknacks, but the idea of watching a big bowl seems preferable to me than sitting through the seemingly wilfully obtuse game that is American Football.
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RatingsFew Looking at Sky Atlantic
Football is no stranger to hyperbole. Every manager’s utterance is poured over for significance, while all tackles, free kicks and hairdos are analysed ad infinitum.
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RatingsBridge closes on a high
In a slightly surreal moment at a Radio Times do last week, the Danish ambassador received his copy of the magazine’s cover with the star of Borgen on it.
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RatingsTop Gear races to the summit
This week, Top Gear returned to show Benefits Street who’s boss.
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RatingsBBC sword saga loses its edge
I once interrupted a big knobs’ meeting, holding the week’s schedule aloft.
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RatingsPound Shop Wars fights off competition
BBC1’s return to Pound Shop Wars proved profitable on Thursday, as the documentary pulled in nearly 5.5m viewers.
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RatingsInside No. 9 debuts with 1.1m
BBC2’s new comedy series Inside No. 9 launched to a solid 1.1m viewers last night but the channel found greater success with documentary Royal Cousins At War.