All articles by Stephen Price – Page 102
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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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FeaturesHuman stays over a million
EastEnders’ strong storyline is helping BBC3 with three places in the top 10 but, hearteningly, there is also continued success with new stuff, bought and commissioned.
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RatingsRatings: Top 100 of 2009
Despite the economic meltdown, 2009 was a bumper year for ratings. But, as Stephen Price reveals, it was ITV that took the peaktime plaudits as talent show fever gripped the nation.
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FeaturesGlee garners all the glory
Humanity is hard enough to negotiate when you are human, so werewolves, ghosts and vampires must have a heck of a time. A distinctly corporeal audience has, however, warmed to their weekly agonies.
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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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FeaturesHustling for pole position
ITV’s Law And Order: UK just loses out to Hustle in a dramatic battle for the prime Monday night slot.
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FeaturesTV tastes icing on the cake
The big freeze sends viewer figures into orbit with Silent Witness winning in the prized 9pm slot.
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FeaturesSpooks and size matter
While the real universe swirls about us in a magical and perplexing way, the digital universe piles in through the telly in a quite straightforward manner.
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FeaturesCold snap heats up ratings
The Christmas feast continued into the new year as dance, dating and crime kept viewers glued.
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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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FeaturesSky 1 making all the right moves
Bernstein and Sondheim would be proud. It’s like The Jets and the Sharks out there - our very own West Side Story; dancing on different days and maybe to different tunes, and perhaps on an off day.
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FeaturesSchedules in three-horse race
RATINGS: With such strong front-runners, other programmes were struggling to get a look-in last week.
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FeaturesWatching the celebs get out
Reality show exits were accompanied by some welcome returns and reassuring rallies.
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FeaturesWomen we love again
BBC4’s Women We Loved season continued to reap real rewards while ITV2 benefited from a woman that maybe we used to love. Oh and BBC3 got a clashing bonus.
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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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FeaturesEnid rewrites BBC4 fortunes
Lashings of ginger beer all round as Enid topped the charts this week.
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FeaturesTrips to other dimensions
This week Channel 4, Five and BBC2 operated in different dimensions.
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FeaturesNetwork TV has a epic week
BBC and ITV enjoy bumper figures in run-up to Christmas with Children In Need and I’m A Celebrity…
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FeaturesCollision makes an impact
ITV’s not all about The X Factor - this week its gamble on stripped drama paid off handsomely.