All articles by Stephen Price – Page 102
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RatingsHoorah for the horror
Kurtz’s final words in The Heart Of Darkness were ‘the horror, the horror’. BBC4 was probably shouting ‘Hoorah, the horror’ as its History Of Horror movies began.
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RatingsEating up the TV schedules
With so much cooking and general foodiness around, this week I felt like I had stumbled into one of Heston Blumenthal’s more exquisitely eccentric menus: a last minute change to the starter, which arrived a day early, followed by a main course of annoying suits, garnished with Preparation H, and ...
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RatingsDCI Banks takes on Spooks
This week, in a dramatic network clash, BBC1’s spies and ITV1’s new lugubrious detective went head-to-head. But who arrested the biggest consolidated audience?
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RatingsA case for detective dramas
Popular crime follows in Poe’s footsteps while the entertainment juggernauts collide.
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RatingsSlow start for Sky’s Thorne
Amid the usual suspects of factual, entertainment, brand extensions and, of course, The Inbetweeners (2.2 million/11% excl+1), Sky 1 launched its latest mainstream big-scale drama.
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RatingsRyder Cup hits the Sky
Jasper Carrot once described golf on the telly as hours of televised sky. And mostly it is, but every two years it becomes a proper sport and ironically on Sky, the 2010 Ryder Cup was a cracker.
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RatingsCooking up a Grand Design
This week’s top 10 dominated by BBC2 contains stuff we Brits do best; watch people cook and talk about houses.
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RatingsNo ray of light for Daybreak
The breakfast show’s audience continues to fall, but there’s better news for ITV1 on Sunday nights.
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RatingsE4 will miss those Inbetweeners
England in 1912 and ’86 as well as an anti-Marco Polo each vie for attention this week – but it’s those popular spotty teenagers that keep hogging the headlines.
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RatingsAutumn TV as it should be
Season of plenty as X Factor continues to grow and Downton Abbey hands ITV1 a substantial debut.
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RatingsWe’re thirsty for Celeb Juice
Travel, they say, broadens the mind, but this week that received truth was challenged by the opposite notion that actually, for some, it narrows as an idiot went east.
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RatingsSeven Days of sausages
Are education and Notting Hill the TV equivalent of sausage production? Sausages - lovely, but no one wants to see how they’re made. Education and Notting Hill - interesting, but few want the reality of them on telly.
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RatingsWho benefits from consolidation?
As audiences increasingly turn to time-shifted viewing, Stephen Price highlights the channels that benefit when the figures are consolidated.
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RatingsBuilding and baking success
Three Fs and a B sounds like my exam results, but here it encapsulates this week’s line-up: food, football, the few and building. Channel 4 launched new shows for Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, and Kevin McCloud guided us around more slightly over-ambitious building projects.
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RatingsOld and young do battle
The Cube makes a welcome return, and viewers tune in to honour war heroes with BBC and ITV.
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RatingsInbetweeners rise to the top
Inbetweeners, by definition, never find themselves at the top, but E4 proved this week that boys standing awkwardly at the back of the disco can win.
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RatingsRepeats take X Factor over 15m
This week’s smorgasbord of goodies serves up not just consolidated viewing but introduces the notion of Multiple Transmission Consolidated Viewing, helping raise the audience of ITV1’s The X Factor and Sky’s Must Be the Music.
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RatingsThe opposites attract public
This week it’s all about Eddie Waring, Don Draper, Him, Her, and The Swiss.
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RatingsBB and Proms take a bow
What have Rogers and Hammerstein and Arthur Schoenberg got in common? Very little, apart from being at opposite extremes of the BBC Proms season that ended this weekend. Also ending this week was Big Brother, whose grip on the C4 schedule was finally prised off.