Channel overview – Page 27
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RatingsWeak outing from Strong
I thought it was just spoonbending. But it turns out Uri Geller, once a sort of secular swami figure to Mexico’s first lady, may also have knocked out radar systems with his mind.
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RatingsBBC2 in gear with F1 doc
Sixteen years since his Edinburgh Fringe debut and eight since his Radio 4 series launched, Steve Delaney followed Miranda Hart last week in finally securing a BBC2 transfer, for his Count Arthur Strong character.
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RatingsC4 brings the Boss back
American Independence Day fell on Wednesday and Channel 4 liberated a new show from the schedule, replacing it with a repeat with some improvement. Elsewhere, we gained a fresh perspective on Britain’s war in Burma, while Rick Stein made me crave a curry.
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RatingsBBC in tune with Glasto
The subject of Channel 5’s Extraordinary People doc this week was Help! I’m 16 But I Look 60.
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RatingsAirport Live off to a flier
BBC2 donned its anorak, flexed its adenoids and went plane and bus spotting – to decent effect.
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RatingsThe Fall slays them all
I thought the most dangerous Tudor was the twerp who suggested Henry VIII write a song about sleeves, but it’s really bible translator William Tyndale, according to BBC2’s Tudor season, which continued in an anniversary-heavy week.
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RatingsSkint poorer for BGT move
At school, I was scarred by the Tudors. Not from learning of their gangster-style rule but because my shoe-box model of a Tudor house was rubbish. Even now, anyone who mentions Tudor architecture to me is liable to get a rant about Clarks’ footware.
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RatingsFlower power boosts BBC2
From Belfast to Australia via Scunthorpe, Manchester, New York and Vegas, all via a spell in A&E, smaller PSBs took viewers on quite a trip this week.
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RatingsDream finish for Bradford
Bradford had quite a week. First its football team won the League 2 play-offs at Wembley, then on TV, the city of dreams bowed out in glory.
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RatingsC4 and C5 snooker BBC2
There are hoarders, high streets, hospitals and regency balls in Pride And Prejudice’s bicentennial year to chew over.
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RatingsKay Live packs ‘em in for C4
Dave Allen was such an iconoclast that as he spun his barbed yarns I wouldn’t be surprised if his missing digit was due to literally giving the finger to some authority figure.
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RatingsC5 viewers go wild for Ben
Channel 5 launched Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild on Monday at 9pm.
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RatingsC5 soap cleans up in new slot
In the packed coffee houses of Enlightenment times, I expect there was a simple divide: are you for gravity or pots?
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RatingsA ratings cure from the NHS
As a yoof, I saw enough of NHS wards to last a lifetime. But if you like hospitals, this was the week for you. All three channels had a variation, and all won their slots.
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RatingsThe National a safe bet for C4
The ramifications of climate change are far-reaching for some of our more delicate fellow creatures.
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RatingsBBC2’s Boris is irresistible
I admit I find them a bit weird, but I have never suffered from a clinical fear of clowns.
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RatingsHollywood stars for BBC
For many years, I thought Bedfordshire – a magical place at the top of our wooden stairs – was in somewhere called the Land of Nod.
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RatingsMimicry’s not dead on C4
As a yoof, my only skill was replicating the sound of the family telephone. For weeks, the phone would ‘ring’ at deliciously inconvenient times. My stifled giggling eventually betrayed me and I was crushed in an avalanche of telling off. Still, mimicking isn’t dead, as Channel 4’s new comedy showed.
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RatingsHeaven beats Hindenburg
As a nipper, I was ambitious for my train set; it would have many miniature people and tiny trees. However, once I found I had to make my people, I lost interest. BBC2, however, retains its fascination with locomotives.
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RatingsBBC blasts C4 in meteor war
This week, there was much toing and froing. Stephen Poliakoff headed out as a long-loved favourite began its final run, while Sue Perkins’ Heading Out was invited in.