MUMBAI: Comedy Central retained its leadership despite a fall in the ratings in the English entertainment genre according to all-India BARC week 43 data. Movies Now emerged as the leader in the English movies genre.

Sony BBC Earth made an entry in the top five infotainment channels’ list while Nat Geo Wild dropped out of the list.

English Entertainment

Comedy Central and Zee Cafe retained their first and second positions with 284 Impressions (000s) sum and 253 Impressions (000s) sum respectively.

Star World and Colors Infinity SD placed third and fourth with 249 Impressions (000s) sum and 186 Impressions (000s) sum respectively.

AXN retains its last position with a slight dip in the ratings with 125 Impressions (000s) sum as compared to last week’s 135 Impressions (000s) sum.

English Movies

Movies Now sits on top position with 2839 Impressions (000s) sum. Star Movies slips to the second position with 2810 Impressions (000s) sum.

Sony Pix and MNX stood third and fourth in this week with 2747 Impressions (000s) sum and 2585 Impressions (000s) sum respectively.

HBO retained its fifth position with 1904 Impressions (000s) sum.

Infotainment

Discovery channel and History TV 18 retained their first and second positions with 3699 Impressions (000s) sum and 3334 Impressions (000s) sum respectively.

National Geographic Channel and Animal Planet replaced their third and fourth respectively with 2798 Impressions (000s) sum and 2781 Impressions (000s) sum.

Sony BBC Earth emerged as a new entrant in the last position with 2611 Impressions (000s) sum.

Lifestyle

Living Foodz, Fox Life, FYI TV18, TLC and Food Food retained their first, second, third, fourth and fifth position respectively with 1361 Impressions (000s) sum, 848 Impressions (000s) sum, 764 Impressions (000s) sum 467 Impressions (000s) sum and 435 Impressions (000s) sum.