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RatingsCelebrity MasterChef cooks up 4.5m
BBC1 turned up the heat on its rivals with a new series of Celebrity MasterChef last night, serving up an audience of more than 4.5m.
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RatingsFairy Jobmother beats BBC2 comedy
Channel 4’s new factual series on unemployment beat BBC2’s heavyweight comedy hour of Mitchell and Webb and Shooting Stars last night.
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RatingsBrucie's family roots draw 7m
Bruce Forsyth launched a new series of Who Do You Think You Are? on BBC1 last night, which played its cards right with nearly 7m viewers.
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RatingsBarrowman wins Saturday night
A second run of BBC1 game show Tonight’s the Night trounced ITV1’s new shiny floor series Magic Numbers on Saturday night.
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RatingsDon’t Stop Believing draws 1.5m
Five’s new talent show Don’t Stop Believing performed to an audience of nearly 1.5m on a night that also saw Top Gear beat Heartbeat to the chequered flag.
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RatingsRoss bows out with 5m
The final ever Friday Night with Jonathan Ross delivered nearly 5m viewers to the BBC last week – the highest-rated episode since ‘Sachsgate’.
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RatingsUndercover Boss employs more than 3m
Channel 4’s new series of Undercover Boss started strongly last night, recruiting an audience of more than 3m.
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RatingsDragons' slay C4's Brucie
A Channel 4 documentary about Bruce Forsyth performed strongly but still failed to trump the competition last night, as a new series of Dragons’ Den fired-up BBC2’s audience.
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RatingsThe Bill nearly nicked by CSI
ITV1’s police drama The Bill was nearly nicked by CSI: Miami on Five last night, saved only by viewers to ITV1 HD.
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RatingsFactual shows hamper drama audiences
Factual shows on BBC2 and Channel 4 took the shine off two big new primetime dramas on BBC1 and ITV1 last night.
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RatingsBBC2 ratings take a Dive
BBC2 drama Dive failed to make a splash on Friday night, ending more than half a million viewers below the slot average.
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Ratings101 Ways debuts with 4m
New BBC1 series 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow debuted on Saturday night to an audience of 4.02m (25.7% share).
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RatingsWorld Cup final scores 73% share
The World Cup final netted nearly three quarters of the UK television audience last night, as Spain clinched an historic victory.
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RatingsDive sinks below average
BBC2’s new drama Dive, about a 2012 Olympic hopeful, sank below slot average at 9pm last night - beaten by Channel 4’s Sex Education Show.
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RatingsWorld Cup semi scores 11.5m
The World Cup clash between Uruguay and Holland last night scored the highest audience for a non-England match of the tournament so far.
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RatingsIdentity arrests nearly 6m
New ITV crime drama Identity arrested an audience of nearly 6m on its debut last night.
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RatingsWimbledon final nets 7m
Rafael Nadal’s Wimbledon winning victory over Tomas Berdych served up almost 7m viewers for the BBC yesterday – over 4m viewers down on last year’s final.
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RatingsUruguay World Cup win draws 11m
Uruguay’s dramatic World Cup clash with Ghana netted ITV a peak audience of nearly 11m viewers on a weekend of enthralling quarter-final action.
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RatingsTwilight stars can't stop Carr stalling
Audience figures for Alan Carr’s Channel 4 chatshow tumbled by more than a quarter of a million viewers last night despite featuring stars of the Twilight films.
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RatingsFox attack twins draw 4m
A Panorama special about the mauling of nine-month-old twins by a fox was seen 4.1m viewers (23% share) last night.