A good year for Love Island and Bodyguard, plus World Cup highs
C4’s reality show launched below average with 1m, but grabbed an 18% share of 16-34s
Palin scores C5’s biggest audience of 2018
C5’s North Korean travel doc is the channel’s most-watched origination outside of Big Brother since 2014
BBC1’s Bodyguard proved impervious to competition from ITV’s period drama
ITV2’s Celebability outperformed Stath Lets Flats and Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Liam Bakes doubles channel’s share of under-16s and hits home with upmarket viewers
BBC1 delivers two biggest non-World Cup audiences of 2018
Bodyguard bowed out with seven-year drama high of 10.4m while Strictly kicked off with 9m
Avalon gameshow from Taskmaster creators draws just 1.2m
BBC1 endures winter of discontent
Drama misses, weak Saturday evening offerings and fall in viewer numbers for weekend stalwarts all contributed to channel performing below par in peak
Love Island smashes record with 3.5m peak
ITV2 wins slot and sets a channel high with series four opener of reality show
Record ratings as England exit World Cup
England’s semi-final defeat in the World Cup pulled in the biggest peak audience on record - overtaking the high of the Olympics 2012 closing ceremony.
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