All articles by Stephen Price – Page 103
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FeaturesPeter hangs on in there
After a couple of weeks away I don my crampons and head back to the top of the digital world and what do I find? Peter Andre still there for ITV2 - 1.2 million/5% can’t be wrong, it seems.
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FeaturesBBC2 changes into top gear
BBC2’s 7pm-10.30pm peaktime share of 8% was way ahead of Channel 4’s 5.1% and Five’s 3.9%. And with ITV1 in hoovering-up mode all week, C4 and Five will have felt the heat in impacts as well as viewing.
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FeaturesStudents and sequins shine
Channel 4 launched two new series at 9pm while Mondays continue with new single titles.
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FeaturesSigns of TV events to come
While several big autumn series on ITV1 are coming to an end, Spooks starts strongly on BBC1.
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FeaturesBroncos, ships and psychics
The variety of Britain’s digital channels is startling. This week, for example, More 4, Discovery, BBC4 and Sky 1 each in turn delivered Americans being mad, history, a bygone age and a live séance.
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RatingsX Factor still holds top spot
ITV’s talent show is set to be season’s hottest hit while Life and dramas are BBC’s winter warmers.
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RatingsTasty figures for Come Dine With Me
A giant is lurking in the digital world but it’s easy to dismiss it as a mere trifle. You would be wrong to do so, though, for the only thing trifling about it is the one served as pudding on More4.
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RatingsBBC2 amuses with old toys
The top show of the week was James May’s Toy Stories, scoring 3.5 million/15% on Tuesday at 8pm, and it ought to come as no surprise that it was packed full of men.
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RatingsRatings: Revealing summer’s winners and losers
Did anyone find ratings victory during the traditional seasonal slowdown? Former ITV scheduler Stephen Price investigates.
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FeaturesITV woos with 8pm factor
Strictly fails in bid to capture the nation’s imagination as The X Factor runs circles around it again.
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RatingsBBC2 cooks up some ratings
I confess that my idea of cooking is reading the bottom of the box and leaving its contents in the oven for 20 minutes (I do take it out of the box - I am not a philistine).
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RatingsSpin-off puts ITV2 in lead
On Sunday, ITV2’s Xtra Factor managed to clock a whopping 1.8 million/7.4% at 9pm while Liverpool besting Manchester United brought in 1.7 million/ 17% at 12.30pm for Sky Sports 1.
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FeaturesIn the race for ratings
Unlike the Grand Prix, BBC1’s four new or returning series will try to win every battle.
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RatingsBBC2 crosses TV time zones
BBC2 will have been pleased with successes pre-9pm - a domain dominated by soaps. Plus it extended bits across 9pm; so much the better.
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RatingsAndre's back on schedule
Katie Price has ended her run and without batting an eyelid, her exhubby moves in to the same time slot in the schedule and what happens? He wins, that’s what.
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RatingsBBC2 comedy struggles on
It isn’t very often that my poor benighted hometown gets a cheery mention, but BBC2 has been merrily trying to alter that.
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RatingsStripped schedule strategy
BBC1 took a gamble with a week’s worth of Criminal Justice - but was the plan worth the risk?
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RatingsNo extentions on Katie Price
Apologies this week if I sound a bit like a broken record as I point out that ITV2’s What Katie Did Next (1.1 million, 5%) is comfortably the highest non-brand extension, non-sports show in the multichannel world.
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