All articles by Stephen Price – Page 101
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RatingsFamiliarity beats novelty
With a whopping week on a bigger rival what do you play against it? A familiar schedule? Or is it an opportunity to try something new?
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RatingsTV Janitor clears ITV schedule
Weak series endings for All At Sea and Marco as ITV prepares for BGT week and World Cup.
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FeaturesFrom strikers to tenors
Prior to 1990, if anyone had said that opera and football would be synonymous they’d have been thought barking mad.
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RatingsBBC1 keeps share as overall volume rises
Wintry weather helped increase the total audience in early 2010 but commercial broadcasters lost out. Stephen Price reports.
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FeaturesAt last, a decisive outcome
Drama makes way for the election endgame as BBC1’s live news coverage steals the show
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FeaturesViewers vote for bankers
During a week of indecision, ratings stalwarts provided some stability in an uncertain world.
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FeaturesFamiliar feel at the summit
The usual suspects sit atop the table - talent, football and, of course, Glee. Elsewhere, detectives continue to show their worth, while screaming the answer might have had a rather echoing quality.
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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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FeaturesPolitics seen off by Talent
Election fever is no match for a different contest in which votes will be just as keenly fought over.
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FeaturesBrighter weekend for ITV1
But the channel must offer more than just Joanna Lumley to shine in its weekday programming.
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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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FeaturesDebates keep public hooked
Sky News and BBC News, both spending their time scrapping for the prettiest girl in the playground, have probably never noticed plucky little Sky 3.
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RatingsDebate sparks ITV week
Top two spots go to the commercial channel, with the first debate winning strong ABC1 support.
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FeaturesThe power of digital TV
This week, BBC3 and ITV2 delivered the four tenants of digital TV viewing: catch up, repeat of a classic, the discovery of a new thing and brand extension (the fifth, er, of the four is sport). BBC3 had the first three, ITV2 the fourth. Between them, they delivered five of ...
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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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RatingsThe Pacific on target for Sky
Sky Movie Premiere’s launch of the big-budget series The Pacific fought off all multichannel rivals on its launch.
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RatingsWar wins out over passion
BBC’s two-part adaptation with Billie Piper fails to dent popularity of ITV’s Foyle.
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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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FeaturesKatie clobbers Lindsay next
Lindsay Lohan, Katie P, a man, his canoe and Courtney Cox: sounds like the cast of some earnest avant garde theatre workshop production or other entitled ‘Mortality’. But actually, it’s a week in digital telly.