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Monday 28th April 2008
BBC1 launched a new soap at 2.15pm: Out of the Blue, a BBC commission from Australia's Southern Star that focusses on thirty-something friends in the beach resort of Manly. The series opened with a murder at a school reunion, and then followed the effects as they rippled through the group. The double episode attracted an audience of 1.16m (17.6%), enough to win two-thirds of its slot, and beating fellow Aussie soap Home and Away on Five, also at 2.15pm.
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Tuesday 29th April 2008
ITV are reaping the benefit of the strong UK representation in this year's Uefa Champions League. Last night's second leg semi-final clash between Manchester United and Barcelona drew an audience that averaged 8.6m (34.3%) across its two-and-a-half-hour slot, peaking at 10.6m in the quarter-hour from 9.15pm, giving a TI™ of 149. (Last week, the first leg of the Man Utd-Barca clash was shown on Sky Sports 2, where it averaged 1.7m.) The latter stages of the Champions League contest have been consistent ratings winners for ITV1: Liverpool v Arsenal on 8th April was watched by 7.6m (32.1%), and Liverpool v Chelsea on 22nd April did even better, with 8.1m (33.3%).
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Wednesday 30th April 2008
The anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is nearly upon us, and ITV1 marked the occasion with a two-hour documentary, featuring an interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, who talked about the night their daughter went missing. There is still a certain fascination with the details of the McCann case, as the programme averaged 3.5m (14.4%), with a TI™ of 107.6, across a lengthy two-hour slot. This compares well with the Channel 4 Dispatches programme, Searching for Madeleine, which went out in October 2007 and was watched by 3.3m (14.6%).
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Thursday 1st May 2008
E4's new sitcom commission from Bwark Productions, The In-Betweeners started it's six-part run at 10pm last night, with two episodes running back to back. The comedy about a group of teenagers performed well, attracting 237,600 (1.3%) for the first episode, and a higher audience of 279,600 (2.1%) for the second episode at 10.35pm.
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Friday 02nd May 2008
BBC2 decided to check up on the people they had previously featured attempting to start a new life abroad, back in 2003/2004, in the series Living the Dream. Living the Dream Revisited, shown at 9pm, picked up on the story of Bob and Tracy, and their business partners Bob's ex-wife and her new spouse, who planned to move from Essex to Spain. The last series, which was shown in February 2004, received an average audience of 1.83m. This latest update (which may have come too late for many people to remember the original series), attracted 1.4m (6.2%).
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Saturday 03rd May 2008
Saturday nights on rivals BBC1 and ITV1 have settled in to their current pattern now, with Doctor Who on BBC, and Britain's Got Talent on ITV1, clear winners in the ratings. Five has meanwhile been enjoying a measure of success with CSI: NY later on in the evening. This week's episode, at 9.45pm, attracted a typically solid 2.6m (13.1%), and a TI™ of 165.4. The first 15 episodes of this series have so far averaged 3.1m on Saturday nights, proving again the strength of the CSI franchise for Five.
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Sunday 04th May 2008
Kevin McCloud puts himself in the firing line this week in Talkback's Grand Designs Live, by taking on a live challenge to build an eco-friendly home in six days. This is an interesting departure for Grand Designs, and the launch programme, at 8.05pm on C4, attracted an audience of 1.9m (7.9%). While this does not approach the heights of some of the Grand Designs ratings, (the previous series, which started in January 2008, averaged over 4m viewers), it was a solid performance up against Raiders of the Lost Ark on BBC1, (5.2m, 22%), and ITV1's drama offering at the same time. |
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