All Ratings articles – Page 320
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RatingsThe Taste drops to fresh low
Channel 5 out-foxed Channel 4 for a second consecutive night on Tuesday at 9pm, as its Age-Gap Love doc helped force The Taste to a new low.
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RatingsThe Jump vaulted by C5's Big Benefits Row
The finale of Channel 4’s The Jump lost out in the race with Channel 5’s Benefits Street-inspired debate on the welfare system on Monday.
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RatingsThe Last Leg back above 1m
Silent Witness bowed out with a series average of 5.5m viewers on Friday, as The Last Leg returned with a strong performance.
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RatingsBest Top Gear debut in three years
Top Gear drove off with its biggest series debut audience in three years on Sunday, as The Jump dropped to a series low.
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RatingsThe Voice UK hits high note
The Voice UK turned up the volume with its best performance of the series on Saturday, as England’s Six Nations debut tackled nearly 6m viewers.
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RatingsBBC’s Midwife really delivers
It’s winter and if in the hearth there burns just a candle, then the dear old television set compensates with many a warming treat.
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RatingsOld Fools are the best
Daves of the world, no matter what their actual names, will this week have felt a pang of sadness stab at their heart with the news of Roger Lloyd-Pack’s passing.
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RatingsPast treasures fail to shine
Rococo or Ancient Egyptian treasures? The votes are in and (if it existed anywhere outside of my head) the most esoteric poll ever delivered the ancients the spoils.
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RatingsSeasonal hits for BBC and C4
The only winter watching I want to do is the sort that involves waving it off at a bus stop, followed by anxious glances down the road searching for the garlanded spring bus.
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RatingsBBC dares to win on Saturday
At an evening of cello scraping on Saturday, I was reminded why I couldn’t master a musical instrument.
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RatingsHidden Kingdoms bows out on low
BBC1’s nature series Hidden Kingdoms bowed out on a low on Thursday, as it was again flattened by the competition on ITV.
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RatingsCelebrity Big Brother final pulls in record peak
Jim Davidson won Celebrity Big Brother on Wednesday in front of the show’s highest peak audience since it moved to Channel 5.
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RatingsSeries lows for The Taste, The Jump and Death In Paradise
Death In Paradise, Paul O’Grady’s Animal Orphans, The Jump and The Taste all put in series low performances on Tuesday.
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RatingsRoom 101 drops to 3.4m
Room 101 returned to BBC1 with an audience 300,000 smaller last year’s series opener on Friday.
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RatingsC4 leaps ahead of the competition
Channel 4 enjoyed a good night on Monday as The Jump held up well and Benefits Street outgunned Jeremy Paxman’s World War I doc for BBC1.
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RatingsSplash! drowned out by The Voice
Splash! bellyflopped to a new low on Saturday, faltering under pressure from The Voice UK.
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RatingsThe Jump launches with 2.6m
Channel 4’s celebrity winter sports format The Jump leapt into action on Sunday with 2.6m viewers – putting it marginally ahead of the 2011 launch of Famous and Fearless.
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RatingsBBC has its time in the Sun
When I was a humble ratings estimator, an agitated sales exec asked why I’d rated so highly a drama that had yet to air. “Because it’s on in January and it’s got the word ‘summer’ in the title,” I blurted. To my relief, it was believed.
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RatingsC4 reaps the Benefits
The year is now well under way and the schedules are beginning to take shape. Returning code-crackers got off to a decent start for ITV, while a British children’s classic has been given a youthful American rubdown for E4.
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RatingsTidy result for Dave
Amid mobs and all the excesses that Babylon has come to represent, only outdone by modern day football, the appeal of two young lovers from Essex and South Wales continues unabated, with a whole series splurged out at once for avid fans.