With apologies (yet again!) for the delay, here's rundown of the Top 20 most popular UK TV programmes or series for the week ending Sunday 8th March 2009 collated from information compiled and presented by BARB. Note that figures for multi-episode TV broadcasts (ie soaps or other shows with more than one episode per week) are rounded up into an average figure for the series and are denoted in the chart by * News broadcasts are excluded from the figures.
1) Comic Relief (BBC1)..........................9.84
2) Coronation Street (ITV1)......................9.82 *
3) EastEnders (BBC1).............................9.21 *
4) Kilamanjaro: The Red Nose Climb (BBC1)........9.20
5) Dancing On Ice (ITV1).........................9.03 *
6) Comic Relief Does The Apprentice (BBC1).......8.53
7) Wild At Heart (ITV1)..........................8.31
8) Let's Dance For Comic Relief (BBC1)...........8.26
9) Emmerdale (ITV1)..............................7.10 *
10) Comic Relief Does Top Of The Pops (BBC2)......7.09
11) Law And Order:UK (ITV1).......................6.61
12) Casualty (BBC1)...............................6.60
13) Lark Rise To Candleford (BBC1)................6.47
14) Antiques Roadshow (BBC1)......................6.11
15) No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (BBC1)..........5.84
16) National Lottery draws (BBC1, Sat)............5.79
17) Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1)..5.59
18) Holby City (BBC1).............................5.52
19) Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)...................5.41
20) UEFA Champions League Football (ITV1, Tues)...5.29
Chart commentary: A definite 'Comic Relief' fund-raising vibe to the chart this week with no less than half of the Top Ten being composed of BBC Comic Relief-themed shows, from the long telethon itself narrowly edging out Coronation Street for the number one slot, to various other CR programmes - including a one-off Top of the Pops resurrection rating very well for BBC2. Yet still BBC1 won't think again about bringing back TOTP (without Fearne "wow, that was ama-zing" Cotton as host). Grr. Nice strong showing for the first episode of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency -but sadly ratings have tumbled badly in the subsequent weeks and the show now pulls in just over 3million. What's the problem? Well, purists may be annoyed that the episodes don't really capture the languid spirit of McCall Smith's beautiful books - the TV show is a bit too full of incident - and maybe Sunday night isn't the right slot of a show this laid back. Shame though. ITV's Law and Order continues to impress with well over 6 million turning in every week and Ant and Dec must be alarmed to see the last show of their series faring so badly, sending them drifting perilously close to the bottom end of the chart. Back to kid's TV with you!!
The next ratings update will be posted tomorrow....honest!
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