All articles by Philip Reevell – Page 2
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FeaturesDigital Focus: BBC4
Last month I wrote a list of hints and tips for candidates applying to run BBC2.
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FeaturesReevell's Ratings: UK shows cash in globally on domestic success
Little Britain has outgrown its domestic market and travelled to the US. On Friday, Little Britain USA launched on BBC1 at 9.30pm with 4.7 million/22% share, which is a bit disappointing considering the heights scaled by previous UK series.
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Digital Focus: Documentaries and Living
I was wondering whether Ross Kemp would stay and face an approaching mob in his Kenya Special or run away.
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FeaturesReevell's Ratings: X Factor vs Strictly
Saturday night's The X Factor audience dropped 12% compared with last week, suffering a broadside from Strictly Come Dancing, which went head to head during its final 15 minutes with The X Factor.
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FeaturesDigital Focus: BBC4 and More 4
Here's an idea you won't read in an Ofcom PSB review. If£100m is going to be top-sliced from the BBC to bail out Channel 4, why not hand over BBC4 as a down-payment? With a lot of repeats populating the BBC4 schedule and More 4 depending very heavily on a ...
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FeaturesReevell's Ratings: BBC1 hopes that Merlin works its ratings magic
The return of the big family Saturday night in seems well timed amid these worrying days of turmoil in the financial markets.
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FeaturesReevell's Ratings: X Factor
The pre-season preliminaries are over and The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing are both in the Saturday night schedule.
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FeaturesDigital Focus: Setanta, ITV2 and Sky 1
The digital talking point of the week is obviously Setanta's World Cup qualifiers on Wednesday, with the England vs Croatia game taking 1.4 million/7% share at 8pm.
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FeaturesDigital Focus: Tennis, science and celebair
Andy Murray seems to enjoy playing in America more than at Wimbledon.
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FeaturesReevell's Ratings: All you need to know to take control at BBC2
In one of those useful broadcasting coincidences, Big Brother reached a low-rating finale, just as BBC2 advertised for a new controller. Audiences of 4.7 million/23% share at 10pm and 3.8 million/17% share at 8.00pm suggest the show's best days are behind it.
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FeaturesReevell's Ratings: Autumn season starts with a grim outlook
This September is the start of a watershed season for commercial broadcasting. Just as grim revenue forecasts cast a shadow over the schedules, Ofcom is set to remould the PSB landscape.
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FeaturesDigital Focus: Sky 1 and BBC3
Gladiators: the Legends Return on Sunday at 8pm delivered a big result for the newly rebranded Sky One with 960,000/5% share in digital homes.
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FeaturesRatings: Digital Focus: BBC3
The holy grail for producers is to create such a strong show that they can overcome editor scepticism and pitch an improbable spin-off which imitates the success of the original - such is the case with Spooks: Code 9.
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FeaturesReevell's Ratings: Does New Tricks get a boost from the summer?
August can be a good time for unexpected successes - the early series of Big Brother proved their worth in August.
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FeaturesBehind the news: BBC3 and BBC4 vs E4 and More 4
As experts prepare to debate the performance of multichannel TV at this week's Broadcast conference, Philip Reevell provides a ratings lowdown of the BBC's and C4's digital channels.
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NewsDigital Focus: ITV2
With Talent dominating the mainstream schedules it was inevitable that there would be even more Talent in the digital world.
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NewsBritain's Got Talent delivers victory for ITV1
Talent in its various forms has been a key theme of the past week. ITV1's Britain's Got Talent had phenomenal success with a week of semi-finals and the live final on Saturday night. As a result, Talent accounted for the top five programmes in this week's table, with the Saturday ...
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FeaturesTuning up for Song Contest
Imagine that BBC3 did not exist - where would the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final coverage find a home? Fortunately the dilemma is hypothetical - but it's difficult to imagine where these shows would turn up otherwise.
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FeaturesRussian dramas turn in a strong performance
It was a week when the television schedules celebrated being part of Europe, as first the Champions League final, then the Eurovision Song Contest overwhelmed the usual domestic offerings. Or, more accurately, it was a Russian week as the Manchester United vs Chelsea final offered exceptional drama from Moscow, followed ...
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NewsIs The Apprentice a genre-bender of a format?
Is The Apprentice really a factual show? According to our weekly table, it is - and a highly successful one at that. In fact it was BBC1's most popular non-soap show this week, with 6.8 million/29% share on Wednesday at 9pm on BBC1.