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RatingsRed or Black? ends on low
Red or Black? bowed out with its lowest audience ever, as the judges’ houses round failed to lift The X Factor to a notable high.
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RatingsHomefront recruits 3m
ITV1’s new military wives drama Homefront struggled on its debut - as the second part of Channel 4’s Drugs Live lost nearly half its audience on its second and final outing.
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RatingsDrugs Live scores 1.6m
Channel 4’s scored a high with the debut of its live two-part study into ecstasy’s effects on the brain.
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RatingsThe Paradise opens with 5.5m as Bake Off rises
Bill Gallagher’s lavish BBC1 period drama debuted with nearly 5.5m viewers, as The Great British Bake Off rose to another high.
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RatingsNigellissima cooks up 2.73m
Nigela Lawson’s latest vehicle exploring Italian recipes served up the cook’s biggest ratings since Christmas 2008.
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RatingsBaggage steamrolled by C5's truckers
Channel 4’s new dating format Baggage pulled in less than a million viewers and was beaten by Eddie Stobart’s truckers on Channel 5.
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RatingsSimon Cowell boosts The X Factor
Simon Cowell’s return to The X Factor helped the show to its second highest audience of the series - as Downton Abbey lost half a million viewers.
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RatingsThe Jonathan Ross Show stumbles to low
The Jonathan Ross Show attracted its lowest audience on record, as Doctor Who underperformed again for BBC1.
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RatingsMrs Biggs robbed by Who Do You Think You Are?
ITV1’s drama about Ronnie Biggs’ wife attracted a series high, but was robbed at 9pm by Who Do You Think You Are?.
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RatingsMan City defeat nets 6m peak
Manchester City’s defeat at the hands of Real Madrid drew more than 6m viewers to ITV1 – but came close to being tackled by the Great British Bake Off on BBC2.
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RatingsPoundland gives Dispatches four-year high
Dispatches pulled in second biggest audience on record with an investigation on cut price retail chain Poundland.
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RatingsBest Strictly launch since 2006
Strictly Come Dancing returned with its biggest launch audience since in six years – but it was still beaten by The X Factor.
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RatingsDownton Abbey returns with 8.6m
ITV1’s hit period drama Downton Abbey returned with more than 8.6m viewers – nearly double BBC1’s audience at the time.
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RatingsBBC Breakfast ratings steady after Salford move
BBC Breakfast’s high-profile move to Salford has done little to damage its audience figures – but the show failed to register any real benefit from the Olympic ratings bonanza.
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RatingsC4’s Audience tops 1m on debut
Channel 4’s quirky new format, in which 50 strangers help someone make a life-changing decision after following them around for a week, debuted with over a million viewers.
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RatingsDallas loses more than 800k
The second instalment of revived US drama Dallas took a hit, losing more than a quarter of its audience in a tightly fought 9pm slot.
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RatingsEngland v Ukraine peaks at 7.5m
England’s late equaliser against Ukraine helped ITV1 to a peak audience of nearly 7.5m viewers.
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RatingsParalympics Closing Ceremony peaks with 7.5m
The curtain fell on the 2012 Paralympics with a peak of nearly 7.5m viewers - forcing The X Factor to a new five-year low.
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RatingsX Factor sinks to five-year low
The X Factor pulled in its lowest audience in five years - while The Thick of It returned with nearly 1.2m viewers.
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RatingsCelebrity Big Brother final down 1m on previous
Julian Clary was crowned winner of Celebrity Big Brother in front of an audience of 2.5m – a million down on Denise Welch’s win in January.