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Monday 25th January 2010

Mrs Mandela, at 9pm on BBC4, was a one-off drama from Diverse that charted the rise and fall of Winnie, the former wife of Nelson Mandela. Sophie Okonedo starred as the woman who went from heroine of the ANC to someone simultaneously regarded by some as a hero while reviled for human rights abuses by others. The audience of 720,500 (3%) was well above the average of 239,700 (1.2%) for the 9pm-10.30pm weeknight timeslot on BBC4.

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Tuesday 26th January 2010

Hidden Histories began its second series on BBC4 at 7.30pm. The opening episode saw Huw Edwards reveal Stonehenge’s links with Wales. The first series episode premieres, shown in 2008, averaged 190,300 (1.1%), in a similar timeslot. The second series (first shown on BBC2 Wales), opened to an audience of 309,700 (1.3%).

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Wednesday 27th January 2010

Desperate Housewives returned for a sixth series on CH4 at 10pm. The US import produced by Cherry Alley Productions averaged an audience of 1.5m (8.66%) for series five on C4 in 2008/2009, with a further audience of 414,400 (2.43%) tuning into E4 to watch episode premieres at 10pm on Sundays. Last night’s season opener was watched by an audience of 2.41m (12.6%), giving it a TI™ of 134.6. An additional 192,400 (1.7%) watched on C4+1.

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Thursday 28th January 2010

Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the comedy drama about a high-class prostitute that achieved considerable publicity recently when the author’s real identity became public knowledge, returned to ITV2 for a third series, with two episodes running consecutively from 10pm. The first of these seduced an audience of 664,200 (3.2%). The second episode, at 10.30pm had an audience of 640,000 (3.9%). These were above the series average figure of 612,100 (3.8%) for Season 2, and provided excellent TI™ scores of 247.5 and 273.6 respectively.

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Friday 29th January 2010

Celebrity Big Brother ended with two programmes on C4, at 8.30pm and 10.05pm. Remarkable Television (part of the Endemol group) were producers of this year’s run of the reality show, which was won by cage-fighter Alex Reid. The series, which launched to an audience of 5.6m (23%) ended with audiences of 3.6m (14.2%) at 8.30pm, and 4m (19.8%%) for the announcement of the winner at 10.05pm. This gave TI™ scores of 150.6 and 188.9 respectively for the two shows, and brought the series average to 3m (12.9%).

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Saturday 30th January 2010

Harry Hill’s TV Burp bounced back into the ITV1 Saturday-night entertainment lineup at 7pm, for another run of the clips show that focuses on the more absurd moments from the previous week’s television shows. The first programme in this latest season of the Avalon production began with a healthy audience of 6.6m (28.6%), which was higher than the average of 6.2m (25.4%) for the previous run, in October/November 2009.

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Sunday 31st January 2010

Live Australian Open Tennis dominated the morning schedule on BBC1, as coverage of Andy Murray’s second attempt at a Grand Slam title pushed the usual BBC1 schedule across onto BBC2. Starting at 8am and running through to 11.45am, the match between Murray and Roger Federer averaged 4.3m (41.8%), and a TI™ of 114.6.

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TI™ Scores:
150+ = Excellent, 110 - 150 = Above average, 90 - 110 = Average
70 - 90 = Below average, 50 - 70 = Poor, 0 - 50 = Very poor
TI™ explained