All articles by Stephen Price – Page 104
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RatingsSeason of cops and football
As autumn kicked off this week, the Uefa match scored for ITV and BBC1 showed its criminal expertise.
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RatingsFighting for attention
Violet Elizabeth Bott screamed and screamed until she was sick, but still William Brown would take no notice.
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RatingsBBC2 traveller beats C4 Tour
BBC2 launched a new travelogue to compete with Channel 4’s Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour on Sunday, but otherwise much of the week was in established patterns.
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FeaturesITV1 can still make an impact
Never mind the raw audience figures, the network has been clocking up the lion’s share of ad views.
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RatingsSunday soccer scores for Sky
The top two spots in the digital chart went to Sky Sports’ Super Sunday.
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RatingsFace-off results in ITV win
The battle of the schedules saw The X Factor victorious over BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
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RatingsBBC2 cooks up a master plan
These darkening evenings leave plenty of time for the mind to wander, and you find yourself wondering why MasterChef: The Professionals was on at some unusual times this week.
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FeaturesRatings: Money-taking and making
BBC2 and Channel 4 bequeathed us a contrasting week of riveting end-of-the-world stuff and spooky predictions - somewhat summing up the 21st century thus far.
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FeaturesFunny debuts still fractured
In this, The Jetsons age of multichannel, push VoD, MobileMovies and fingernail DVD (I made that one up), digital channels might seem to have the advantage when connecting with those prepared to experiment.
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FeaturesTerrestrial launches blast off
As autumn starts to take off, some TV settlers land on the big channels while others head to digital.
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RatingsDragons lead way forward
All things must come to an end and Big Brother has officially passed on. There may be rueful grins if that final series, stops fully out, pulls in the numbers of yore. Farewell BB; we really knew ye.
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FeaturesBattle of autumn begins
ITV and BBC line up their big hitters in a bid to attract the viewing public now that summer is over.
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RatingsMore 4’s food for thought
The nature of digital channels is that they are focused on a specific audience, and this obviously determines programme strategy. But there are times when that pesky free-thinking audience confounds things.
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FeaturesWeek telling a tale of yore
A tale of yore I think. The location (location, location) was the coast and it was here that I found the dragons’ den (lair, surely?).
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FeaturesReap rewards from re-runs
Acquired programmes play a significant role for digital channels. They are able to buy programming in at a relatively cheap rate compared with terrestrial networks and can play the stuff many times in a week to squeeze out value.
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FeaturesFootball, fillers and repeats
In a barren week of TV listings, only the presence of the X Factor hinted at the battles to come.
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FeaturesDigital repeat contenders
When Galileo first gazed at the stars through his telescope 400 years ago, he probably said: “Crikey, there’s a lot.” He might have said the same about digital channels; frighteningly, there are well over 300 channels measured by Barb.
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FeaturesNot waging a weekend war
Generally BBC2, C4 and Five don’t go too bonkers at the weekends, what with the entertainment behemoths taking lumps out of each other on ITV1 and BBC1 for much of the time.
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FeaturesHolidays exodus is overrated
Figures show using the holidays as an excuse for a summer ratings lull is not always justified.