All Channel Overview articles – Page 34
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RatingsOnce Upon a Time delivers for C5
Channel 5 enjoyed fairy tale figures for its latest import.
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RatingsJack stalls on comedy road
This week, Jack Whitehall hit the road, the first Apprentice was shown the road, Hairy Bikers bowled along merrily and Four Rooms returned.
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RatingsBikers beat business guru
Hairy men overturn sharp young fixer. An unusual sentence to start proceedings I agree, but it’s true as the Hairy Bikers returned to BBC2 and improved on Alex Polizzi’s businessy ways.
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RatingsAudience cool on White Heat
The vogue for mining recent history continued this week with BBC2’s drama White Heat beginning in the 60s, as one era officially died and a less certain but more thrilling one began.
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RatingsThe best and worst of British
This week’s channel overview includes Make Bradford British, Melvyn Bragg and Homeland.
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RatingsBFGW dresses lose sparkle
Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings saw a large drop in numbers for its second episode of the series.
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RatingsC4 gets Gypsy Wedding gift
This week’s channel overview considers the return of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and new series Daddy Daycare.
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RatingsViewers miss 10 O’Clock start
The Coalition is very keen to tell us that there is no Plan B. Well, they’re wrong, there is; I saw him on Sunday’s Top Gear (4.9 million/16% including BBC HD).
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RatingsBaby boom for Channel 4
One Born Every Minute delivered another strong performance in a string of programmes that helped Channel 4 top BBC2 throughout the week.
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Cup scores but Top Gear wins
BBC2’s coverage of the League Cup Semi-Final, plus the return of those petrol fiends, gave BBC2 a decent week, while C5 closed the CBB house once more.
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RatingsStars align for BBC2
Jasper Carrot once described golf as “hours and hours of televised sky”. BBC2, typically the home of TV golf, did just that this week - but got us all interested in watching the stars.
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RatingsMystery of the lost viewers
Edwin Drood lost some of his mystery this week as BBC2 had a stab at guessing the end of the unfinished classic. Elsewhere, the channel proved that sport and baking need not be odd bedfellows.
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RatingsC4’s birthday Countdown
In November, it’ll be 30 years since Paul Coia announced Channel 4’s arrival, introducing viewers to the perennial quiz show Countdown; the celebrations began on Monday.
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RatingsUniversity Challenge specials put BBC2 ahead
In the Christmas week up to and including Boxing Day, Channel 4 pinched the top spot, BBC2 will be pleased with its haul and Channel 5 kept its powder dry for this week’s return of Celebrity Big Brother.
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RatingsGambling on a big win
CHANNEL OVERVIEW: The allure of high-stakes gambling in many forms brought in the viewers last week, writes Stephen Price
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RatingsViewers 'like' Facebook doc
This week’s channel overview considers Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror and BBC2’s interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg amongst others.
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RatingsBankers are good for BBC2
This week’s channel overview looks at When Bankers Were Good, The Choir and the Life’s Too Short, amongst others.
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RatingsPan Am fails to take off
Was it only Pan Am stewardesses who walked around as if they were waitresses in a Thunderbird episode carrying an invisible tray to a rather snooty diner? Judging by the latest retro import, it was.
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RatingsViewers flock to Rev’s return
Rev is back in an accidental kung fu mood; while in actual fisticuffs, the heroically named Tyson Fury delivered for Channel 5.
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RatingsBritain past and present
This week there was a contrast between Britain’s past and present: the past of which everyone can unequivocally feel proud; the present a rather more dark and threatening place.