All articles by Stephen Price – Page 113
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FeaturesHustling for pole position
ITV’s Law And Order: UK just loses out to Hustle in a dramatic battle for the prime Monday night slot.
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FeaturesTV tastes icing on the cake
The big freeze sends viewer figures into orbit with Silent Witness winning in the prized 9pm slot.
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FeaturesSpooks and size matter
While the real universe swirls about us in a magical and perplexing way, the digital universe piles in through the telly in a quite straightforward manner.
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FeaturesSky 1 making all the right moves
Bernstein and Sondheim would be proud. It’s like The Jets and the Sharks out there - our very own West Side Story; dancing on different days and maybe to different tunes, and perhaps on an off day.
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FeaturesC4 blasts into life with CBB
Channel 4 can be forgiven if it feels a bit of motion sickness; on Christmas Day it was becalmed in the doldrums with a very titchy 1.7% peaktime share; then on Sunday, all steely eyed, it clambered aboard HMS ‘Take A Look At This’ and scored 13.8%.
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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.