All articles by Stephen Price – Page 111
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FeaturesBig Football wins again
This week BBC2 went all clever, with science and comedy mixing it with Bombay; Channel 4 got its chefs doing Scandinavian horror and Five demonstrated, again, the impact of Big Football.
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FeaturesPolitics seen off by Talent
Election fever is no match for a different contest in which votes will be just as keenly fought over.
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FeaturesBrighter weekend for ITV1
But the channel must offer more than just Joanna Lumley to shine in its weekday programming.
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FeaturesDebates keep public hooked
Sky News and BBC News, both spending their time scrapping for the prettiest girl in the playground, have probably never noticed plucky little Sky 3.
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FeaturesWorldwide TV tour a winner
This week, Lagos, Spain, the Hebrides, India and London - featuring cooking, hospitals, football, trains, hospital trains and wildlife rangers - bestrode our screens like a tall, er, geography teacher.
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RatingsDebate sparks ITV week
Top two spots go to the commercial channel, with the first debate winning strong ABC1 support.
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FeaturesHome cooks see off chefs
Channel 4 is enjoying success with one newer chef as well as a more familiar one, but it’s the stubborn refusal of ordinary people cooking for points in their own kitchen that continues to provide C4 with the most consistent and hardy ratings
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FeaturesThe power of digital TV
This week, BBC3 and ITV2 delivered the four tenants of digital TV viewing: catch up, repeat of a classic, the discovery of a new thing and brand extension (the fifth, er, of the four is sport). BBC3 had the first three, ITV2 the fourth. Between them, they delivered five of ...
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RatingsTiger pulls in Masters’ fans
Mark Twain once described golf as a good walk spoiled. Clearly viewers of The Masters would disagree, as the final day’s play on BBC2 attracted more than 3 million.
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RatingsWar wins out over passion
BBC’s two-part adaptation with Billie Piper fails to dent popularity of ITV’s Foyle.
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RatingsThe Pacific on target for Sky
Sky Movie Premiere’s launch of the big-budget series The Pacific fought off all multichannel rivals on its launch.
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FeaturesKatie clobbers Lindsay next
Lindsay Lohan, Katie P, a man, his canoe and Courtney Cox: sounds like the cast of some earnest avant garde theatre workshop production or other entitled ‘Mortality’. But actually, it’s a week in digital telly.
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FeaturesBlood, births and budgets
This week saw a new two-part drama, the launch of a chat show and three grey blokes banging on about how much more tax we are all going to have to pay between now and forever. Thanks, chaps.
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FeaturesThe Beeb shows ITV the door
New gameshow and Ant & Dec fall flat as Ashes To Ashes and Over The Rainbow win their slots.
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RatingsIndian cricket scores for ITV4
Half a league, half a league onward as Alfred, Lord Tennyson described the futile Charge of the Light Brigade. No such gloom among Sky 1 and ITV4’s respective leagues in this week’s line-up; each will be, in their own way, rather chuffed.
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RatingsNo Flash in the pan for C4
A good week for Channel 4 with its 8pm and 9pm brands storming the citadel of the top 10, and BBC2 still showing us that even though the universe we live in is big, viewers want to know what might be out there. And FlashForward is back with more mania, ...
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RatingsIt’s the end of an era at ITV
As The Bill prepares to bow out, can the schedule’s remaining shows hit the same audience figures?
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FeaturesSporting heroes a BBC relief
The telethon runs away with the ratings with a 33% share, and raises a heap of cash to boot.
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FeaturesDoubling the fun with flow
What do these schedules tell us about the audience? That clever people like old furniture, preferably on the road; that travelling around the world is bettered by understanding where that world is; that gawping at other people’s houses is still fun, but nightmares in the kitchen are less so; and ...
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FeaturesA tale of two generations
ITV Studios’ Come Dine With Me shows no sign of going cold turkey and deserves its own dining star for consistently giving More 4 a place at the top table.