Channel overview – Page 25
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RatingsCHARTS: BBC2’s BA doc takes off
The glamour of air travel might be extinguished but BBC2 found more mileage in it.
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RatingsCHARTS: BBC2’s joy of Springwatch
Every year as I settle into my ‘it may be raining persistently but summer’s here because it’s the cricket season’ mode, I am beseeched by BBC2 to watch spring.
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RatingsCHARTS: Budding start for RHS Show
Monday brought a clash of quintessentially British obsessions: gardening and weather.
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RatingsBear sees off veg challenge
On Channel 4 this week, a group of stranded, ravenous men of varying handiness dreamed of fine food and wine.
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RatingsBBC2 pots a TV winner
So that’s that then: another year’s wait until a waistcoated world champion contender vigorously chalks his cue while pondering the balls on the baize.
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RatingsMr Drew’s on par with Essex
It probably wasn’t the plan. “So BBC2 and BBC4, if you could commission stuff together, that would be great.” “Yep, of course boss,” each would have chimed.
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RatingsBBC2’s seed fails to grow
Given the furore over BBC1’s ‘Mumblegate’, it’s perhaps ironic that BBC2 should this week show a subtitled drama and the next night play a silent film.
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RatingsBBC2 sows the seeds of a hit
Get out the cloche, pull up the radish, snip the beans and sweep the duckboards – the latest craft to master has arrived.
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RatingsC4 quiz drops off the pace
William G Stewart first introduced us to 15 contestants, 14 of whom were destined to be unlucky, in January 1988. More than a quarter of a century on, and 10 years off the air, his former show has had a bumpy return.
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RatingsMary Berry batters rivals
Mary Berry does a nice line in butter-wouldn’t-dare-melt demureness, but when it comes to ratings, the Queen of Buns is a killer – as all but the denizens of Weatherfield found out on Monday.
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RatingsLambs spring into top 10
In fields around the land this week, green visors were delivered, baize tables were set up and cards dealt out, and once again the lambs had to explain, hoofs on hips, that they gambol.
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RatingsBabies deliver on BBC2 & C4
This week, BBC2 launched a sort of farming version of Call The Midwife, with more bleating, less screaming and a fear of mint sauce.
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RatingsLap of honour for Channel 4
BBC2’s weekly primetime share was almost 8%, helped enormously by Top Gear: Burma Special: 6.1 million/23% share is a huge audience, more than twice that of the next show in the table, and it would be foolish to argue against it.
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RatingsMary cooks up BBC2 success
In the summer of 1914, moustaches and frock coats roamed the corridors of power and decided that it was time for war.
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RatingsHastings wins battle of docs
Appositely, as sabres rattle in Eastern Europe, BBC2 played two programmes on the outbreak of the First World War.
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RatingsThe Taste falls to new low
The sliding-about-a-lot has ended and GB won four medals, the best return since 1924; the year Mallory and Irving were lost trying to ascend Everest for the first time.
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RatingsOlympics in winning form
The nation is gripped by the sliding about of athletes, often in lycra and occasionally with brooms.
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RatingsBBC2 skates ahead of ITV
If ever there was a right time to announce the relinquishing of the BBC2 Quill of Control, it would be after news like this: BBC2’s Saturday and Sunday combined all-time share (12%) beat ITV’s (9.8%).
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RatingsTop Gear races to the summit
This week, Top Gear returned to show Benefits Street who’s boss.
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RatingsSeasonal hits for BBC and C4
The only winter watching I want to do is the sort that involves waving it off at a bus stop, followed by anxious glances down the road searching for the garlanded spring bus.