All articles by Philip Reevell – Page 5

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Football kicks off ratings hike

2007-08-16T08:00:00Z

Phillip Reevell on the week's ratings.

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Ratings: Postcard shows fail to cheer up summer viewers

2007-08-16T08:00:00Z

Phillip Reevell on the week's TV ratings.

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ITV1's Dancing on Ice skates past rugby on BBC1

2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

This is the week in early spring when sport begins to take a grip on the schedules - the resumption of Champions League football, the first domestic football competition final, the biggest Six Nations game of the year, all in the space of seven days.

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Chicken and egg - or surfers catching a wave?

2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

Channel 4 has commissioned Silver River to make a landmark series about television and when I read the following quote from Daisy Goodwin, I knew I would have to think harder this week. 'It's a chicken and egg concept. What comes first: our obsession with house prices or the vast ...

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Programmes that prove C4's value beyond reality

2007-02-08T08:00:00Z

This seems like a good week to acknowledge the positive things Channel 4 does with its programming. On Monday at 9pm the channel had its highest rated programme of the week with The Smallest People in the Worldwhich had an audience of 4.2 million/16% share. ...

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CBB finale fails to fend off return of Hammond

2007-02-01T08:00:00Z

Earlier this week, I spent two hours in a training session about UK programming with a group of executives from a Chinese broadcaster. Speaking through a translator (a phrase I've always wanted to use in this column), we discussed the major programming event of the past few days - the ...

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Glut of current affairs wins 10 million viewers

2007-01-25T08:00:00Z

Once we were starved of current affairs in primetime, now there's a glut on Monday nights. At 8pm last Monday (15 January) ITV1's Tonight- featuring Ann Widdecombe versus the hoodies - had the popular edge, attracting 5.5 million/22% share. In its new Monday night slot ...

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Ratings - Winners and losers in a fresh look at primetime

2007-01-18T08:00:00Z

Sometimes a simple question can give you pause for thought. Last week I was asked what definition of primetime we use for the tables on this page.

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Ratings: Million pound giveaway can't buy ITV1 viewers

2007-01-11T08:00:00Z

If you put the words 'million pounds' and 'giveaway' together in a programme title, should you expect people to tune in in their millions? It works when the word 'celebrity' is attached to 'Big Brother' - but for some reason ITV1's Fortune: Million Pound Giveawaydidn't ...

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Pirates capture peaktime Boxing Day audience

2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

Before you tuck into the festive season figures, can I point out that this year - 2007 - will be the final full year of analogue television broadcasting in Britain. In the second half of next year the analogue network will begin to close down, starting with the Border region, ...