Sundays may be billed as big nights for British drama, but when it comes to ratings winners there's one show that blows them all away.
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BBC1 rural affairs show Countryfile beat the series finale of War and Peace, Call the Midwife and ITV drama Vera in the TV ratings on Sunday 7th February, and set a new series record in the process.
An average of 8.6 million people tuned in to Countryfile from 7-8pm, to watch presenters Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison tramp through Tyne and Wear. Read More...
Middlesbrough also had to deal with late drama as a tight game with fellow promotion hopefuls Millwall was settled by Lions youngster Romain Esse stepping off the bench to hit the only goal of the game at the Riverside.
The two sides head into the fixture off the back of wildly different results in their midweek Carabao Cup first-round ties as Coventry conceded an injury-time winner to League Two outfit AFC Wimbledon, while Boro advanced with a 3-2 victory at Championship rivals Huddersfield. Read More...
The result was Death Comes to Pemberley and I was able to contrast the peace, beauty and hierarchy of a great house with the discovery of a young officer violently done to death in a part of the Pemberley estate known as the wild woodland. Darcy and Elizabeth, happily married and with two handsome and healthy boys in the nursery, have their happiness and, indeed, their marriage threatened by a murder inquiry centred on Pemberley itself. Read More...
