Channel overview – Page 28
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C4 obsessives clean up
On Thursday at 8pm, I came across Britain’s Secret Shoppers, a new Channel 4 programme that had an audience of 1.7 million/8% share.
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Dead king slays robot
While an ancient beleaguered king might have appreciated some bionic help, viewers chose history over a real-life Steve Austin this week.
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Baking queen takes the cake
Without wishing to invent some new sort of rotisserie baking method, it’s a bun revolution out there.
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Bakers bring relief to BBC2
The first Comic Relief was terribly daring: lots of radical comedians beseeching us to bypass heartless government and laugh our way to chariddy.
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Winter’s a hot topic for BBC2
One can watch winter by just looking out of the window at the determinedly clingy ice and snow.
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BBC2 reaches for the stars
In the week of David Bowie’s revered return, BBC2’s own starman, Professor Brian Cox, commenced his annual trawl of the sky, but there was still no sign of Major Tom.
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BB celebs take the crown
There must have been a first time: “Trust me my lieblich, a tree in the house for a fortnight is a gut idea. It vill catch on.”
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Stripping pays off for BBC2
BBC2 was like Gypsy Rose Lee this week, with all its stripping success.
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Big egg takes some beating
Peering at a Salvador Dali painting in an art gallery one day, I felt the heat of embarrassment blush my cheeks as my tummy rumbled like a howling beast, much to the hushed cognoscenti’s irritation.
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007 puts BBC2 in driving seat
BBC2 celebrated the understated launch of a new Bond film with a Top Gear special in an appropriately stunty schedule in which it also stripped icebergs and autumn. While smarting at the fate of the Jewish mum competition, Channel 4 can take comfort from the redoubtable Grand Designs.
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Choir ends on a high note
As the weather around the world goes nuts with alarming regularity it didn’t help that this week Derren Brown convinced some poor sap the world was ending; forget the aid of skilful suggestion, just watching the news makes it feel like it actually might happen.
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GB baking rises again
One far-flung summer past I worked for the Severn Trent Water Authority researching the history of its sewerage system.
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Viewers check out of Hotel GB
In my day, every self-respecting student had a poster of Karl Marx on their wall, usually next to that photograph of a ‘Parisian kiss’ by Paul Doisneau.
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Nigella serves up a winner
This week, Channel 4 did drugs, BBC2 took us downstairs to reveal the life of the maids who washed their masters’ pants, and Nigella served up a meat-based pizza.
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BBC on song with Choir
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along come a couple of doozies to jolt the old complacency.
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Brave move pays off for C4
Do you ever get the feeling you are being followed? Channel 4’s The Audience will freak you out then. C4’s post-Paralympic schedule included unwrapped food, emergencies and a brave entertainment dive into mid-Saturday evenings.
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Games bow out on a high
The Paralympics has ended. Sob. Throughout, Channel 4 collected very tidy shares and lots of lovely - and, it would hope, lucrative - viewers to boot.
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C4’s parallel universe a hit
The Paralympics, are so called because they are sort of parallel to the Olympic Games. Wednesday transported Channel 4 to a parallel universe as its coverage of the opening ceremony caused havoc.
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Good start for Parade’s End
The spectral image of a nun at a coronation was the spookiest sight this week in Channel 4’s latest royal documentary. Elsewhere, BBC2 found its buns rising and its parade ending in a very ‘channel of the year’ kind of way.
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Kay takes the cake-makers
The buns are back in town, as Thin Lizzy never said (but I bet they wish they had). BBC2 had more fun with baking and enjoyed the origins of the Paralympics.