Friday 21 August 2009

UK TV Chart - w/e 9th August 2009

Here's the rundown of the Top 20 most popular UK TV programmes or series for the week ending Sunday 9th August 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) Coronation Street (ITV1)..................8.45 *
2) EastEnders (BBC1).........................7.78 *
3) New Tricks (BBC1).........................7.67
4) Emmerdale (ITV1)..........................6.36 *
5) Misomer Murders (ITV1)....................6.28
6) Holby City (BBC1).........................5.48
7) Rivers With Griff Rhys Jones (BBC1).......5.13
8) Grimebusters (ITV1).......................4.98
9) Total Wipeout (BBC1)......................4.81
10) Countryfile (BBC1)........................4.78
11) The Street (BBC1).........................4.70
12) Who Do You Think You Are (BBC1)...........4.55
13) Jam and Jerusalem (BBC1)..................4.36
14) Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (ITV1)......4.11
15) Top Gear (BBC2)...........................4.07
16) The One Show (BBC1).......................3.90 *
17) Car Crime UK (ITv1).......................3.82
18) Hotel Babylon (BBC1)......................3.71
19) The Bill (ITV1)...........................3.64
20) (A Touch Of Frost (ITV1)...................3.63
20) (Send In The Dogs (ITV1)...................3.63

2 comments:

Cameron Yarde said...

Hotel Babylon really can't be long for this world can it Paul with ratings like that. I still think it would have rated higher had it been shown on a Tuesday/Thursday like they used to do.

Paul Mount said...

I'd be surprised if Babylon gets a recommission. A combination of an inappropriate timeslot and a general lack of interest must surely have finished it off. Still, for a show which never seemed hugely popular in the first place it had a decent run. I saw a few minutes of an episode recently - have never watched it before - and it just seems a bit...well, unreal. The sets looked a bit odd, sort of larger-than-life and surreal (all bright primary colours) and the acting was....interesting. Odd show, really.