7-day consolidated ratings – Page 27
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RatingsGong goes to Gogglebox
Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld and writer/star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, once said he carried his Emmy with him wherever he went, but was very casual about it.
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RatingsMasterChef's ratings feast
After the return of Wallander this week, with bigger-than-ever numbers, BBC4, instigator of the Nordic Noir boom, might just be in line for a gong.
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RatingsThe Trip ends well for BBC2
There was a lot of swooning, dramatic death and romantic angst in early 19th century Italy as blouse-wafted poets and their young wives wandered about the place.
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RatingsBBC1 is happy in the valley
It’s hard not to feel a bit sorry for valleys, lying as they do beneath the la-di-da hills with all their sun and fresh air.
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RatingsITV schedulers miss a trick
The pitch, way back when, would have been interesting: rambling stories punctuated by displays of vaguely incompetent magic tricks.
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RatingsChipper start for C4’s Fargo
Some movie scenes stick with you, like David Niven and Robert Wagner dressed as gorillas driving a sports car and being chased by Peter Seller’s Clouseau, the opening to Saving Private Ryan, or when Mr Vader owns up to being Luke’s dad.
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RatingsITV hits high note with BGT
There’s no stopping the singing, dancing and juggling (or all three) talent show.
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RatingsThe Trip stays on course
My school trips tended to be to places like Littlehampton or Eastbourne. All revolved around the same dreary experience: where to find shelter from the incessant wind-assisted rain to eat fish paste sandwiches and drink warm, weak squash out of a plastic beaker.
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RatingsEndeavour’s solid return
One of the space shuttles is called Endeavour. Some years ago, I watched it launch into the Florida yonder with mad, fiery urgency, catapulting towards the stillness of space. I can’t imagine melancholic Endeavour Morse launching into any yonder but there are times when his fiery urgency boils over.
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RatingsC4 scores big with space
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy states, boldly but not inaccurately, that space is big. Really big.
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RatingsBBC3 fails to make impact
Plenty has already been said about BBC3, but should its shows be in the top 30 consolidated shows?
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RatingsBBC1 finds Gently does it
In the same buildings where Woolies once offered its pick ’n’ mix range of gardening tools, CDs and bleach, pound shops now offer… well, much the same eclectic stuff but all for a pound.
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RatingsLine Of Duty fights back
It’s likely that series two of BBC2’s Line Of Duty was dispatched into the world with robust hopes after the dramatic denouement of series one.
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RatingsSky 1’s Stella holds steady
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Marlon Brando’s bad boy Stanley stands at the foot of the steamy New Orleans apartment’s stairs and screams “Hey Stella!”. Stella’s languid descent ends in a slightly sweaty tryst; Romeo and Juliet it ain’t.
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RatingsBleak winter lifts ratings
It may just be an of-the-moment thing, but in this most miserable, annoying, bleak and dank of winters, where chinks of cheeriness are obscured by cold, grey swirling waters, quite a few TV series are enjoying their best of times.
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RatingsTomorrow’s success today
Ardent fans of Scottish League One football still long for one result when Methil’s finest take on the pride of Angus: East Fife 4, Forfar 5.
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RatingsAntiques have value for BBC1
More than 111 million people watched the Super Bowl in the US. I’m not a great fan of knickknacks, but the idea of watching a big bowl seems preferable to me than sitting through the seemingly wilfully obtuse game that is American Football.
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RatingsBBC’s Midwife really delivers
It’s winter and if in the hearth there burns just a candle, then the dear old television set compensates with many a warming treat.
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RatingsC4 reaps the Benefits
The year is now well under way and the schedules are beginning to take shape. Returning code-crackers got off to a decent start for ITV, while a British children’s classic has been given a youthful American rubdown for E4.
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NewsWatching the detectives
As we emerge into the new year blinking like lambs, our national fondness for the irregular has been confirmed.