All articles by Stephen Price – Page 108
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FeaturesGhoulish themes galore
Strictly closed the gap on The X Factor as both shows got into the spirit of Halloween.
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RatingsRandom characters rack up ratings
Wizards, aliens, the Kray Twins, spies and an idiot all feature in this week’s consolidated ratings round-up.
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RatingsFrom Essex to the moon
Time to say farewell to the successful but calamitous The Inbetweeners as they bibble off into adulthood on 2.6 million/13%.
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RatingsStrictly takes to the air
The shiny floor show reaches new heights with a helping hand from a flying former minister
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RatingsITV’s big guns take primetime
A fifth of UK viewers tune into X Factor, while international football and Downton prove their worth.
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RatingsRecording an appetite for drama
High quality drama, the Inbetweeners and Lord Sugar pushed The X Factor out of the top ten most-recorded programmes for the first week of October.
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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.