All articles by Stephen Price – Page 107
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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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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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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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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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FeaturesWatching the celebs get out
Reality show exits were accompanied by some welcome returns and reassuring rallies.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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FeaturesStudents and sequins shine
Channel 4 launched two new series at 9pm while Mondays continue with new single titles.
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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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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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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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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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FeaturesITV woos with 8pm factor
Strictly fails in bid to capture the nation’s imagination as The X Factor runs circles around it again.