Thursday 16 April 2009

UK TV Charts - w/e 5th April 2009

Here's the rundown of the Top 20 most popular UK TV programmes or series for the week ending Sunday 5th April 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) EastEnders (BBC1)........................9.55 *
2) Coronation Street (ITV1).................9.34 *
3) Football:World Cup Qualifier (ITV1)......7.93
4) The Apprentice (BBC1)....................7.16
5) Casualty (BBC1)..........................7.08
6) Lewis (ITV1).............................6.83
7) (My Family (BBC1).........................6.72
7) (Emmerdale (ITV1).........................6.72 *
9) Holby City (BBC1)........................5.94
10) Antiques Roadshow (BBC1).................5.88
11) (Law and Order:UK (ITV1)..................5.84
11) (National Lottery: 1 vs 100 (BBC1)........5.84
13) Countryfile (BBC1).......................5.69
14) Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)..............5.39
15) Primeval (ITV1)..........................4.94
16) All The Small Things (BBC1)..............4.92
17) Total Wipeout Awards (BBC1)..............4.87
18) Waterloo Road (BBC1).....................4.86
19) Robin Hood (BBC1)........................4.63
20) How Woolies Became Wellies (BBC1)........4.48

Chart commentary: Another convincing win for BBC1 with an impressive 13 titles in the Top 20. EastEnders regains the pole position courtesy of the dramatic (ie extremely melodramatic) wedding episodes with Barbara Carry-On and the bloke off Gavin and Stacey. Get aht of my pub!!! Some footie nudged Sralan down a couple of notches and over a million less people than week one saw the man shout "You're fired" at the end of 'The Apprentice' and thus their week must have been a little gloomier magnificent without this highlight. Disengaging irony mode... Cheesy broad BBC comedy My Family returns for its 189th series and landed itself an immediate top 10 slot...other ailing/axed BBC sitcoms must be wodnering what its secret is. Sorry, I've no idea. Robert Lindsay once starred in Citizen Smith, you know. Ah, now that was a comedy... Elsewhere BBC1's unusual idea of moving sleepy Sunday morning country magazine show Countryfile to the white heat of early Sunday evening has paid off impressively with a handy top 20 slot for the show. Odd. Primeval and Robin Hood, as predicted, saw their ratings slide in week two but both held on to a top 20 slot. Next week will see Primeval tumble out - it logged its lowest ever figures last week against Dr Who - whereas Robin Hood will bounce back up, inheriting a bit of Dr Who's audience and hauling itself well over 5 million again. BBC1's new Tuesday night light choir drama, All The Small Things, made a decent enough debut; its figures have remained pretty constant across three episodes so far so the show's a quiet hit and a likely recommission, I'd have thought.

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