All Channel Overview articles – Page 34
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RatingsBakers bring relief to BBC2
The first Comic Relief was terribly daring: lots of radical comedians beseeching us to bypass heartless government and laugh our way to chariddy.
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RatingsWinter’s a hot topic for BBC2
One can watch winter by just looking out of the window at the determinedly clingy ice and snow.
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RatingsBBC2 reaches for the stars
In the week of David Bowie’s revered return, BBC2’s own starman, Professor Brian Cox, commenced his annual trawl of the sky, but there was still no sign of Major Tom.
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RatingsBB celebs take the crown
There must have been a first time: “Trust me my lieblich, a tree in the house for a fortnight is a gut idea. It vill catch on.”
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RatingsStripping pays off for BBC2
BBC2 was like Gypsy Rose Lee this week, with all its stripping success.
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RatingsBig egg takes some beating
Peering at a Salvador Dali painting in an art gallery one day, I felt the heat of embarrassment blush my cheeks as my tummy rumbled like a howling beast, much to the hushed cognoscenti’s irritation.
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Ratings007 puts BBC2 in driving seat
BBC2 celebrated the understated launch of a new Bond film with a Top Gear special in an appropriately stunty schedule in which it also stripped icebergs and autumn. While smarting at the fate of the Jewish mum competition, Channel 4 can take comfort from the redoubtable Grand Designs.
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RatingsChoir ends on a high note
As the weather around the world goes nuts with alarming regularity it didn’t help that this week Derren Brown convinced some poor sap the world was ending; forget the aid of skilful suggestion, just watching the news makes it feel like it actually might happen.
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RatingsGB baking rises again
One far-flung summer past I worked for the Severn Trent Water Authority researching the history of its sewerage system.
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NewsViewers check out of Hotel GB
In my day, every self-respecting student had a poster of Karl Marx on their wall, usually next to that photograph of a ‘Parisian kiss’ by Paul Doisneau.
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FeaturesNigella serves up a winner
This week, Channel 4 did drugs, BBC2 took us downstairs to reveal the life of the maids who washed their masters’ pants, and Nigella served up a meat-based pizza.
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FeaturesBBC on song with Choir
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along come a couple of doozies to jolt the old complacency.
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FeaturesBrave move pays off for C4
Do you ever get the feeling you are being followed? Channel 4’s The Audience will freak you out then. C4’s post-Paralympic schedule included unwrapped food, emergencies and a brave entertainment dive into mid-Saturday evenings.
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RatingsGames bow out on a high
The Paralympics has ended. Sob. Throughout, Channel 4 collected very tidy shares and lots of lovely - and, it would hope, lucrative - viewers to boot.
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RatingsC4’s parallel universe a hit
The Paralympics, are so called because they are sort of parallel to the Olympic Games. Wednesday transported Channel 4 to a parallel universe as its coverage of the opening ceremony caused havoc.
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RatingsGood start for Parade’s End
The spectral image of a nun at a coronation was the spookiest sight this week in Channel 4’s latest royal documentary. Elsewhere, BBC2 found its buns rising and its parade ending in a very ‘channel of the year’ kind of way.
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RatingsKay takes the cake-makers
The buns are back in town, as Thin Lizzy never said (but I bet they wish they had). BBC2 had more fun with baking and enjoyed the origins of the Paralympics.
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FeaturesBBC1’s loss is BBC2’s gain
Newsflash from the future: it’s October and BBC1 has just realised that BBC2 still has its schedule and is refusing to give it back.
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RatingsEnd of Line cheers BBC2
BBC2’s peerless Line Of Duty came to its shattering end, as did, more poignantly, Twenty Twelve.
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RatingsUni quiz rises to challenge
As The Olympics loom, BBC2’s Twenty Twelve wandered brilliantly beyond parody and benefited. University Challenge returned for more random Monday-night guessing, while Line of Duty and 24 Hours in A&E charged on.