{"id":4372,"date":"2012-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/12\/07\/ratings-roundup-local-drama-does-the-numbers-in-europe-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2012-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:00:00","slug":"ratings-roundup-local-drama-does-the-numbers-in-europe-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/12\/07\/ratings-roundup-local-drama-does-the-numbers-in-europe-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Roundup: Local Drama Does the Numbers in Europe on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">PREMIUM: Domestic television drama productions won Thursday prime time in three of the four largest markets of continental Western Europe on December 6.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">In Italy, the winning drama was even a repeat. In Spain the winner was a Spanish feature film.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">In France, TF1 won comfortably with long-running police series <em>Julie Lescaut <\/em>taking 5.848 million viewers and a share of 22.5 percent. In Germany, ARD 1 topped the night with drama series <em>Alles ausser Liebe<\/em> (<em>Anything But Love<\/em>) at 5.09 million viewers and a share of 16.3 percent. In Italy, the top prime-time rating was for a repeat of long-running series <em>Don Matteo<\/em> on RAI 1 with 5.164 million\/18.14 percent for the first of two back-to-back episodes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">In France, M6 took second place with HBO-co-produced <em>Transporter: The Series<\/em> at 3.82 million\/14.1 percent, while political affairs came third for France 2 as monthly <em>Des Paroles et Des Actes<\/em> (<em>Words &amp; Acts<\/em>) drew 2.928 million\/12.1 percent. France 3 was a close fourth with U.S. feature <em>Zodiac<\/em> (2.824 million\/11.9 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">In Germany, number two, going head to head with <em>Anything But Love<\/em> in the same 20:15 time slot, was RTL&rsquo;s long-running police series <em>Alarm f&uuml;r Cobra 11<\/em> (3.15 million\/10.2 percent), followed by <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> on Sat.1, again in the same time period. Sat.1 showed back-to-back episodes of the CBS series with very similar results (2.86 million\/9.2 percent for the first). Pro 7 countered in the period with light entertainment, but <em>Die Grosse Quatsch Variety Show<\/em> managed only 1.68 million\/5.7 percent. RTL followed Cobra with HBO-co-produced <em>Transporter: The Series<\/em> (2.63 million\/8.8 percent), which was just beaten by <em>Criminal Minds<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">In Italy, the local version of Endemol&rsquo;s format <em>Deal or No Deal<\/em> (<em>Affari Tuoi<\/em>), airing in access time on RAI 1, again outscored prime-time programming, pulling 5.296 million viewers and a share of 18.64 percent. Behind <em>Don Matteo<\/em> in prime time was U.S. feature <em>No Reservations<\/em> (2.845 million\/10.94 percent) on Canale 5.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">In Spain, competition was tight. The winner was local comedy feature <em>Al final del camino<\/em> (<em>Road to Santiago<\/em>) on Antena 3 with 2.484 million viewers and a share of 14.7 percent. It followed on from the same channel&rsquo;s hit light entertainment show <em>El Hormiguero<\/em> (<em>The Anthill<\/em>), which finished second for the night with 2.471 million\/12.5 percent. Running a very strong third was La Sexta&rsquo;s local version of British (Channel 4) format <em>Ramsay&rsquo;s Kitchen Nightmares<\/em> (<em>Pesadilla en la cocina<\/em>) with 2.366 million\/12.6 percent. Fourth place went to Telecinco&rsquo;s drama series <em>Hospital Central<\/em> (2.158 million\/11.6 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREMIUM: Domestic television drama productions won Thursday prime time in three of the four largest markets of continental Western Europe on December 6. In Italy, the winning drama was even a repeat. In Spain the winner was a Spanish feature film. In France, TF1 won comfortably with long-running police series Julie Lescaut taking 5.848 million &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings Roundup: Local Drama Does the Numbers in Europe on Thursday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ratings Roundup: Local Drama Does the Numbers in Europe on Thursday. PREMIUM, December 7: Domestic television drama productions won Thursday prime time in three of the four largest markets of continental Western Europe on December 6. . 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