Channel overview – Page 34
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FeaturesBig Football wins again
This week BBC2 went all clever, with science and comedy mixing it with Bombay; Channel 4 got its chefs doing Scandinavian horror and Five demonstrated, again, the impact of Big Football.
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FeaturesWorldwide TV tour a winner
This week, Lagos, Spain, the Hebrides, India and London - featuring cooking, hospitals, football, trains, hospital trains and wildlife rangers - bestrode our screens like a tall, er, geography teacher.
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FeaturesHome cooks see off chefs
Channel 4 is enjoying success with one newer chef as well as a more familiar one, but it’s the stubborn refusal of ordinary people cooking for points in their own kitchen that continues to provide C4 with the most consistent and hardy ratings
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RatingsTiger pulls in Masters’ fans
Mark Twain once described golf as a good walk spoiled. Clearly viewers of The Masters would disagree, as the final day’s play on BBC2 attracted more than 3 million.
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FeaturesBlood, births and budgets
This week saw a new two-part drama, the launch of a chat show and three grey blokes banging on about how much more tax we are all going to have to pay between now and forever. Thanks, chaps.
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RatingsNo Flash in the pan for C4
A good week for Channel 4 with its 8pm and 9pm brands storming the citadel of the top 10, and BBC2 still showing us that even though the universe we live in is big, viewers want to know what might be out there. And FlashForward is back with more mania, ...
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FeaturesDoubling the fun with flow
What do these schedules tell us about the audience? That clever people like old furniture, preferably on the road; that travelling around the world is bettered by understanding where that world is; that gawping at other people’s houses is still fun, but nightmares in the kitchen are less so; and ...
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RatingsSheer joy for BBC2’s lambs
It’s not well known but Bob Marley was once a sheep farmer. Every day he would start his work with a song: ‘we’re lambin’, hope you like lambin’ too’. Lambing Live worked well at 8pm for BBC2, while Channel 4 will be chuffed that four brands cornered most of 9pm. ...
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RatingsBBC2 and Five score TV gold
The Winter Olympics is, ironically, gaining some traction for BBC2, with coverage of all that feisty slipping about.
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RatingsSlip-sliding up the rankings
A fortnight of Olympic Sliding About is upon us while Monty Don is suddenly ubiquitous - appearing on two channels in the week. Channel 4 had a topsy-turvy time, with Embarrassing Bodies (3.6 million/14%) being the topsy part.
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Ratings5pm is peak launch pad
Although outside peak, with its nose pressed up against the window, 5pm is still a vital part of the schedule for impact, share and boosting the 6pm slot. For commercial channels, investment at 5pm remains important but it is no longer possible to spalsh out.
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FeaturesCBB goes out with a bang
As confetti rained down on C4’s last ever Celebrity Big Brother, rumours were already sweeping the industry over whether another channel would look to pick up the rights from makers Endemol.
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FeaturesOpeners angle into position
If a reflective farmer fishing for catfish found himself asking how nature and the written word shaped humanity, what you might eat on an Indian train and how bonkers are Britons today, she could have done worse than watch the new series launched this week.
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FeaturesSlumming it a big hit for C4
“Must have been keen on her; took her to see India… at The Oval,” as The Major once explained to Basil Fawlty. Channel 4 must be keen on us as they brought India to our tellies and will have been pleased with the results.
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FeaturesC4 blasts into life with CBB
Channel 4 can be forgiven if it feels a bit of motion sickness; on Christmas Day it was becalmed in the doldrums with a very titchy 1.7% peaktime share; then on Sunday, all steely eyed, it clambered aboard HMS ‘Take A Look At This’ and scored 13.8%.
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FeaturesC4 proves life begins at 40
This week BBC2 had art, history and caravans attached to blimps in Top Gear; C4, meanwhile, declared that life begins at 60 and, as if to prove the point, began stripping The Queen on Sunday.
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FeaturesTrips to other dimensions
This week Channel 4, Five and BBC2 operated in different dimensions.
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FeaturesBBC2 changes into top gear
BBC2’s 7pm-10.30pm peaktime share of 8% was way ahead of Channel 4’s 5.1% and Five’s 3.9%. And with ITV1 in hoovering-up mode all week, C4 and Five will have felt the heat in impacts as well as viewing.