All Channel Overview articles – Page 29
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RatingsMixed fortunes for C4
There were mixed fortunes for Channel 4 as Heston returned to nearly 2 million while Liberty and the British Comedy Awards struggled.
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RatingsBBC2 rises to the Challenge
Some years ago, while snowbound at a friend’s house in Switzerland, we played Trivial Pursuit.
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RatingsWild Burma tames C4 Cats
It remains difficult for me to see a polystyrene cup without wanting to pick it up, place it between my teeth and launch into “sitting at my piano the other day”, followed by throwing an imaginary ball into a paper bag.
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RatingsThe Choir hits the right note
Many moons ago, I spent a summer ensconced in Birmingham City Library researching a history of … well, let’s just say Victorian Public Health capital expenditure in case you’re reading this early in the morning.
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RatingsC4 Masters a total turn-off
It’s lucky that Mr and Mrs Masters weren’t called Mr and Mrs Terry Fide; Terry Fide Of Sex would have been much less enticing a prospect than Masters Of Sex.
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RatingsBBC’s seasonal outlook a hit
You can tell autumn’s here because the council’s leaf blowers are out scarring the air with their small loud motors, which is in no way annoying.
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RatingsBBC’s seasonal outlook a hit
You can tell autumn’s here because the council’s leaf blowers are out scarring the air with their small loud motors, which is in no way annoying.
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RatingsC4’s S.H.I.E.L.D. comes down
Superhero comics missed a trick when coming up with supervillains.
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RatingsKids and dogs work wonders
Spas are meant to administer balmy treatments to soothe away the stresses of daily living.
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RatingsBBC2 plays a Blinder
The Midlands might not necessarily be at the cutting edge of fashion, but as BBC2’s new drama showed this week, you wouldn’t want to be making too many flat cap and whippet gags back in 1920s Brum.
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RatingsBake Off still a hot property
You can tell when it’s autumn: the PSBs engage in a big Wednesday night tussle, with three shows hunting down similar audiences.
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NewsC5 takes no prisoners
Whenever a late-night repeat of Prisoner Cell Block H was moved, its ‘fans’ would mobilise – a warning for Channel 5’s new prison drama.
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RatingsTop Boy fails to rule NY
The Great British Bake Off is back with a bang and rivals might be newly a-feared of Tuesday’s tented bun-meisters.
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RatingsDragons slay sunday night
Jeremy Paxman’s beard may have captivated the Twitterverse, but if you’d squinted you could imagine him in a doublet slaying monsters with his broadsword, which seems appropriate in the week that the Dragons roared back.
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RatingsFinal Top Gear laps Das Auto
In the card game Top Trumps, German Cars was the best pack to have. Memories of shouting “60 BHP” and “1760cc!” were evoked by Sunday’s BBC2 German car documentary, which, coincidentally, on the 99th anniversary of Britain declaring war on Germany, launched a, er, German season.
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RatingsMisery is good for C4
Whatever the opposite of trouble at t’mill is (shindig at t’mill perhaps?), Channel 4 will have been toasting poor, oppressed child labour on Sunday evening.
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RatingsWeak outing from Strong
I thought it was just spoonbending. But it turns out Uri Geller, once a sort of secular swami figure to Mexico’s first lady, may also have knocked out radar systems with his mind.
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RatingsBBC2 in gear with F1 doc
Sixteen years since his Edinburgh Fringe debut and eight since his Radio 4 series launched, Steve Delaney followed Miranda Hart last week in finally securing a BBC2 transfer, for his Count Arthur Strong character.
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RatingsC4 brings the Boss back
American Independence Day fell on Wednesday and Channel 4 liberated a new show from the schedule, replacing it with a repeat with some improvement. Elsewhere, we gained a fresh perspective on Britain’s war in Burma, while Rick Stein made me crave a curry.
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RatingsBBC in tune with Glasto
The subject of Channel 5’s Extraordinary People doc this week was Help! I’m 16 But I Look 60.