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Britain’s Brightest bows out on high
Clare Balding’s gameshow Britain’s Brightest bowed out with its biggest audience of the series on Saturday.
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Monty Don continues to bloom
BBC2’s horticultural series Monty Don blossomed with 1.68m (7%) as long running crime procedural Silent Witness struggled over the finishing line for BBC1.
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Baftas peak up by 350k for BBC1
The British Film Academy Awards peaked with 6.2m viewers, outperforming last year’s ceremony, on a night that saw multiple wins for Argo, Les Miserables and Skyfall.
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Bionic Man assembles audience of 1m
Channel 4’s ambitious attempt to create the first completely ‘bionic man’ struggled against the competition, coming second to last in the 9pm slot.
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England's victory over Brazil nets 9m
England’s 2-1 win over Brazil, for the first time in nine matches, peaked with a huge 8.96m on ITV demolishing all its competitors.
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Richard III doc digs up a storm for C4
Richard III: the King in the Car Park unearthed Channel 4’s biggest audience of the year to date.
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Monty Don's French fancy draws 1.6m
Monty Don’s latest travelogue exploring French gardens bloomed with 1.6m for BBC2.
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Call the Midwife remains imperious
Call the Midwife gained more than half a million viewers on last week’s episode to deliver BBC1 the biggest audience of Sunday.
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Splash! finale soars
Splash! bowed out with its second biggest audience of the series - helping it become ITV’s best entertainment series launch since 2008.
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The Secret Life of Dogs launches with 3.85m
ITV’s recent obsession with all things canine brought it almost 4m viewers on Thursday, leaving it just short of its 9pm slot average.
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Derek starts with 1.5m
Ricky Gervais sitcom Derek launched with over 1.5m outperforming Channel 4’s slot average.
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Dallas flops on return
The second series of Dallas returned to Channel 5 with an underwhelming audience, failing to attract 1m viewers.
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Move to BBC1 doubles Miranda audience
Miranda bowed out with 7m viewers - helping the BBC1 comedy topple ITV’s detective series Lewis for the fourth consecutive week.
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Top Gear returns to form
Top Gear returned with its best series launch audience in two years - as Andy Murray’s Australian Open final defeat peaked with 5.32m.
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Splash! dips as BBC1 suffers again
The penultimate instalment of ITV’s celebrity diving show Splash! dipped again - as BBC1’s woeful Saturday night performance continued.
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CBB finale draws record audience
Celebrity Big Brother ended with its highest ever audience for a finale since it moved to Channel 5.
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Genius of Invention launches with 1.54m
BBC2’s year of invention got off to a spluttering start with Michael Mosley’s new series on British engineering pioneers.
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National Television Awards audience slumps to five year low
ITV’s National Television Awards walked away with its lowest audience in five years.
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Julian Fellowes Great Houses opens its doors to 2m
The first part of Julian Fellowes’ stately homes documentary struggled to impress viewers, drawing an audience almost 1.5m down on the slot average.
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Great Comic Relief Bake Off launches solidly
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off whipped up an audience of more than 3.8m viewers for BBC2 - but was well below some of the highs hit by the last series.