All Channel Overview articles – Page 37
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RatingsC4’s Mission Impossible
Thunk: that’s the sound of Tuesdays returning to normal as the gypsy juggernaut vanishes over the horizon, some time before the illuminated dresses disappear like some kind of sartorial setting sun.
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RatingsNot brilliant, but OK! for C5
At the end of the last century, ITV launched OK! TV on weekday mornings; now it has returned on rebranded Channel 5. Meanwhile, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings ended its blockbuster run and will be missed, if not by everyone.
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RatingsAn exotic mix of TV treats
Ancient Britain, the Middle East, the Caribbean, gypsies and African islands all made the ‘exotic things to discuss’ list this week.
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RatingsC4’s Big Fat Gypsy ratings
This week’s channel overview considers the ratings phenomenon of Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.
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RatingsC4 pulls out more stops
Are there any stops left on Horseferry Road? Channel 4 pulled out more this week including gypsies, satire and a defecting awards show with varying results. BBC2 welcomed back petrolheads.
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RatingsBig fish steady the C4 ship
After last week’s potpourri, a fishier Channel 4, coupled with the return of an old favourite, provided a more stable schedule, while two new BBC2 comedies bookended the working week.
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RatingsNew year, new-look C4
Life after Big Brother was always going to be difficult; after this week Channel 4 might be thinking that life without it makes the 12 labours of Hercules look like boiling a kettle.
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RatingsA trip down memory lane
Apparently, the way to the nation’s hearts is to evoke memories of power cuts and only three TV channels - i.e. the 1970s.
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RatingsC4’s giant elf nabs top spot
It is no surprise that in this huge week, the top-rating shows appear around the edges of peak; that half of them are brand extensions; and that one of the highest-rating 9pm shows combined food and soap.
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RatingsEarly Christmas for Channel 4
BBC2’s Operation Mincemeat, the increasingly popular Miranda and a seasonal visit from Fred Claus feature in this week’s channel overview.
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RatingsChannels vie to find a voice
As the pillaging of the Event Season plunders audiences for the Big Two, other channels look to find a voice either by scheduling around them, where BBC2 has found some success on Mondays, or by playing the smart card
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RatingsFamily life is never easy
This week, there was the return of The Family, a documentary about an East London family as well as an epic saga of one man’s fictional life and family history. And then there was Miranda, back with her odd collection of friends to supplement a very daffy mother.
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RatingsTaking refuge from history
This week, Edwardian farmers vied with the reincarnation of 1970s suburban ploughing on BBC2, while Channel 4 scared us to death with the size of the national debt, only to invite us the next day to watch people literally drop another million quid.
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RatingsNo stumble on this Trip
If The Trip is a mock travel documentary, does that make it a Mockulogue? Elsewhere, MasterChef: The Professionals broiled its last this week as Kirstie Allsopp tried to get us to rethink how we refurbish.
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RatingsViewers take DIY option
James May’s Man Lab helped BBC2 secure victory over Channel 4 while the Apprentice’s spin-off series took an upswing.
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RatingsEating up the TV schedules
With so much cooking and general foodiness around, this week I felt like I had stumbled into one of Heston Blumenthal’s more exquisitely eccentric menus: a last minute change to the starter, which arrived a day early, followed by a main course of annoying suits, garnished with Preparation H, and ...
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RatingsCooking up a Grand Design
This week’s top 10 dominated by BBC2 contains stuff we Brits do best; watch people cook and talk about houses.
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RatingsSeven Days of sausages
Are education and Notting Hill the TV equivalent of sausage production? Sausages - lovely, but no one wants to see how they’re made. Education and Notting Hill - interesting, but few want the reality of them on telly.