All Ratings articles – Page 334
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RatingsRun walks off with share rise
Although August is the month of holidays and a time when the news goes a bit round the bend –Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and whistling llamas on the Today programme was the starting gun – television still entices viewers.
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RatingsBaby joy for digital news
After naming the new royal urchin George Alexander Louis, I wondered if there might be a ‘By George, it’s a GAL’ headline.
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RatingsMisery is good for C4
Whatever the opposite of trouble at t’mill is (shindig at t’mill perhaps?), Channel 4 will have been toasting poor, oppressed child labour on Sunday evening.
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RatingsStar power wins for BBC4
BBC4 proved old stars never lose it as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor delivered nicely for the channel this week.
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RatingsCouncil House doc moves 2m into C4
Channel 4’s new series How To Get a Council House moved in to the schedule with an audience of over 2m on Thursday.
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RatingsCelebrity Masterchef cooks up 5m
Celebrity Masterchef was watched by 4.7m viewers on Wednesday as it swapped to BBC1 from last year’s outing on BBC2.
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RatingsA tough act to follow
With the Olympics boosting last year’s viewing figures, maintaining volume was always going to be difficult.
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RatingsNew Tricks stays strong
The new series of New Tricks arrested all-comers on Tuesday night, performing in line with last year’s opener.
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RatingsLong Lost Family continues to locate viewers
ITV’s Long Lost Family continued to dominate the Monday night ratings, again locating more than 5m viewers.
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RatingsOlympic ceremony repeat beats Björk & Attenborough
Björk’s unlikely collaboration with Sir David Attenborough could barely muster 500,000 viewers for Channel 4 on Saturday and was beaten by a BBC3 repeat of the Olympic opening ceremony.
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RatingsThe Mill prospers for C4
The Mill was Channel 4’s biggest drama series launch in three years in a strong Sunday night for ratings.
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RatingsUsain Bolt peaks with 4m
Usain Bolt returned to London on Friday evening and helped BBC1’s Olympic anniversary celebrations to a peak audience of more than 4m.
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RatingsEwan McGregor's Hebrides rises
Ewan McGregor’s BBC2 Hebrides doc and C5’s The Hotel Inspector continued to perform well on Thursday, while The Briefs locked in a smaller audience for ITV.
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RatingsSugar’s still the daddy
The Apprentice goes out strongly despite the heat, while Diana’s Dresses impresses for C4
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RatingsWeak outing from Strong
I thought it was just spoonbending. But it turns out Uri Geller, once a sort of secular swami figure to Mexico’s first lady, may also have knocked out radar systems with his mind.
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RatingsA Shore-fire hit for MTV
And the heat goes on; it’s great.I’ve forgotten what long trousers are like.
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RatingsSky’s Ashes hit rivals for six
I do wish film titles would be less ambiguous. I mean, what could Disney’s Teen Beach Movie be about? Whatever it was, it hooked ’em in.
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RatingsThe Force is with ITV
In the ancient battle of the sexes, it was refreshing to see that when it comes to football, men and women are equal in their ineptitude, as England got booted out of the Women’s Euro tournament.
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RatingsSky1's The Cafe reopens with smaller audience
The return of Who Do You Think You Are? located 5m viewers for BBC1 on Wednesday as Sky1’s The Cafe reopened with an audience half the size of its series one debut.
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RatingsLuther finale underperforms
Luther bowed out with its second biggest audience of the series on Tuesday – but it failed to match the performance of its 2011 climax.