Channel overview – Page 19
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RatingsPotters beat Bargain Brits
BBC2’s The Great Pottery Throw Down returned with 1.8 million beating C4’s The Secret Life Of 5 Year-Olds and C5’s Bargain Loving Brits In The Sun.
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RatingsBBC2 freezes out rivals
BBC2’s best Winterwatch was Monday’s 8pm edition with 3.2 million beating C4’s Dispatches and Food Unwrapped, as well as Channel 5’s Police Interceptors repeat.
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RatingsA+E to the rescue for C4
C4’s hospital factual drew 2 million viewers last Tuesday, defeating CBB’s 1.8 million.
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RatingsCBB Hell is heaven for C5
Each winter brings, with increasing savagery, an NHS crisis, and with one currently blowing a hard chill, BBC2 fast-tracked a fly-on-the-medic doc series. Elsewhere, Channel 5 sent its inmates to hell.
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RatingsArresting start for No Offence
The second series of Paul Abbott’s C4 comedy drama No Offence debuted on Wednesday at 9pm with 1.9 million/8% (320,000 +1), its second best overnight after series one’s opener: 2.2 million/ 10% (323,000 +1) on 5 May 2015.
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RatingsDavid Blaine magics up 1.2m
This week as Channel 4 reminded us that David Blaine is still out there doing something or other BBC2’s intrepid traveller stayed home to fix lives.
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RatingsC4 finds a festive jewel
It must be nearly Christmas since Kirstie has started knitting her own festive jewellery. But before anyone gets carried away, BBC2 alliteratively reminded us of a disaster.Video:Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 5 - 11 DecChannel 4’s Our Guy In China wrapped up with 1.6 ...
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RatingsAntiques bring value to BBC2
As if it’s not quite thrilling enough seeing long-haired lover Donny Osmond and Amarillo-dreamin’ Tony Christie rummaging around the Midlands for bric-a-brac, this week, BBC2’s antiques ramble went berserk and put Donny in a De Lorean – the automotive equivalent of bric-a-brac.
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RatingsTop table for BBC2's chefs
Forty years ago, it fell to West Bromwich of all places to promote black footballers and take on racists. On Sunday, BBC2’s doc about a strange but significant football match in 1979 defeated Channel 4’s Humans, as it did quite a few low-watt humans at the time.
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RatingsC4 washed out at low tide
Beyond the shouty entertainment shows elsewhere, Channel 4 went all beachcombery on Saturday night — while BBC2,s arts strand was like Bargain Hunt on acid.
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RatingsClose To The Enemy trumps prison doc
I met Stephen Poliakoff once. It’s likely I remember it more clearly than The Great Beard does.
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RatingsViewers warm to Arctic Live
Some newspapers get into hysterical froths about anything these days, so it’s not surprising there are epic warnings of some kind of icy Armageddon bearing down on us – it’s best to keep every one cowed.
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RatingsHumans fails to come to life
I am beginning to wonder if being human is all it’s cracked up to be.Perhaps it would be better if the machines did take over. Surely they’d be no more dangerous than some of the brains currently seeking or exercising power.Maybe though, as Channel 4’s robot ...
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 10-16 Oct 2016
It was a triumphant return for Channel 4’s The Crystal Maze on Sunday at 9pm (3 million/13.8%).
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 3-9 Oct 2016
The current obsession with nostalgia continued this week as BBC2 took Culture Club’s hatted and plaited leader back to the suburbs of his yoof. Elsewhere, after BBC2’s desert tortoises, Channel 4’s Bear exited, with celebrities in tow.
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 22-28 Aug 2016
This week, BBC1’s erstwhile Victorian London thriller, released from its Amazonian home and making its BBC2 debut, began rather handily.
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 11 - 17 July 2016
On Monday, BBC2’s University Challenge returned at 8pm with 2.4 million/12%, followed at 8.30pm by Only Connect (1.9 million/9%)
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 4 - 10 July 2016
On Sunday, C4’s Formula 1: British Grand Prix Live was its best of the week with 2.3 million/ 17%
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 27 June - 3 July 2016
The final episode of Top Gear on Sunday - and, it turns out, also Chris Evans’ last episode - was watched by just 1.9 million/ 9%