Channel overview – Page 33
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RatingsGood 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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RatingsKay 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.
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FeaturesBBC1’s loss is BBC2’s gain
Newsflash from the future: it’s October and BBC1 has just realised that BBC2 still has its schedule and is refusing to give it back.
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RatingsEnd of Line cheers BBC2
BBC2’s peerless Line Of Duty came to its shattering end, as did, more poignantly, Twenty Twelve.
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RatingsUni quiz rises to challenge
As The Olympics loom, BBC2’s Twenty Twelve wandered brilliantly beyond parody and benefited. University Challenge returned for more random Monday-night guessing, while Line of Duty and 24 Hours in A&E charged on.
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RatingsJamie versus the volcano
In AD 79, Pliny the Younger described his Uncle Pliny the Elder’s decision to inspect the exploding Vesuvius by heading towards it; soon Nephew Pliny was Pliny the Only One.
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RatingsDeferred Bard pegged back
When sport is live, nobody, not even the Bard, is sacred – as Henry IV found out this week.
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RatingsCop and ball story for BBC2
BBC2’s schedules were rent with Wimbledon’s capriciousness but amid it all, its new drama began splendidly. Channel 4 sending Gordon Ramsay to jail worked well too.
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RatingsA tax break for C4’s Cats
The furore over Jimmy Carr’s tax helped Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats do rather well
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RatingsSweet result for BBC2
Due to a physiological miracle that I am loathe to investigate too closely, no matter what I eat, weight stays away. After watching BBC2 on Thursday, I realise how insanely lucky that is, since it seems the biggest conspiracy of modern times is not political, it’s sugar.
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RatingsFrom BB house to 50s house
This week, after the Jubilee was done, it was once again time to scrutinise entrapped housemates as attention turned to the Big Brother house.
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RatingsSpringwatch has sprung
This week’s channel overview considers Springwatch, Embarrassing Bodies and a new doc on Afghanistan among others.
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RatingsViewers enjoy a fishy tale
BBC2’s fishy series began well, Chelsea bloomed and Gok got his wok out.
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RatingsC4 hoarding beats crash
A BBC2 documentary about Facebook and Channel 4’s hoarder series feature in this week’s overview of ratings.
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RatingsGot Talent takes on all-comers
With Britain showing off its eclectic talents across an entire week on ITV1, other channels had to brace themselves.
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RatingsC4 hoards viewers
Channel 4 investigated hoarders and collected some nice numbers while the The Killing US returned and Homeland finished with a ‘give-us-another-series’ ending’.
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RatingsChannel 4's talent hidden by Beard
This week’s channel overview shines the spotlight on new Channel 4 series Hidden Talent, BBC2’s Mary Beard and Channel 5’s US crime dramas.
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RatingsNostalgia fest lifts BBC2
The thing about The 70s (BBC2, Monday, 9pm), which started with 2.6 million/10% share, is that presenter Dominic Sandbrook wasn’t there for some of it, having been born in 1974.
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RatingsAnother ship sinks on C4
This week’s channel overview considers Channel 4 doc the Sinking of the Concordia and the latest comedy from Ricky Gervais, Derek.
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RatingsNo match for Undateables
C4’s The Undateables and BBC2’s Our Food come under the spotlight in this week’s ratings overview.