All articles by Stephen Price – Page 62
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RatingsHappy ending for BBC’s Valley
Ignoring for a moment the thing that’s about to land from Brazil, the week of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent live knockouts is like a bugle heralding summer.
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RatingsCHARTS: BBC2’s BA doc takes off
The glamour of air travel might be extinguished but BBC2 found more mileage in it.
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV claims half-term victory
The World Cup looms, promising fame like a faintly sinister hawker; all the fun of the Fifa fair is to be had if you’re rich.
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RatingsCHARTS: BBC2’s joy of Springwatch
Every year as I settle into my ‘it may be raining persistently but summer’s here because it’s the cricket season’ mode, I am beseeched by BBC2 to watch spring.
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RatingsGong goes to Gogglebox
Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld and writer/star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, once said he carried his Emmy with him wherever he went, but was very casual about it.
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RatingsCHARTS: Sky shows slip slightly
I worry about Jack Bauer. It must be exhausting being that clenched all the time, and then there’s all that running and waving his pistol while perpetually pointing out that he’s trying to save the world here, people.
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV3’s sleuths secure results
With pay drama channel ITV Encore heaving in to view, ITV3 was determined to show its sibling upstart how it’s done, with its detective greatest hits. Meanwhile, BBC4 pulled on its white stetson and set off for Dodge City.
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RatingsBroadcasters’ battle for daytime
Networks put up a strong fight for this fertile ground says Stephen Price
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RatingsMasterChef's ratings feast
After the return of Wallander this week, with bigger-than-ever numbers, BBC4, instigator of the Nordic Noir boom, might just be in line for a gong.
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RatingsCHARTS: Sky Atlantic is in for a Penny
The Victorians, those straightbacked Empire-builders with virtue preserved, forked out a penny each week to be thrilled by sensational dread
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RatingsCHARTS: Mum's the word for E4
The recent round of series culls in the US left The Big Bang Theory untouched and barging on for more
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RatingsCHARTS: Budding start for RHS Show
Monday brought a clash of quintessentially British obsessions: gardening and weather.
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV wins with BGT and footy
It’s probably just coincidence, but the weather that is making such a mockery of May is storming in from Europe.
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RatingsThe Trip ends well for BBC2
There was a lot of swooning, dramatic death and romantic angst in early 19th century Italy as blouse-wafted poets and their young wives wandered about the place.
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RatingsThrones takes ratings crown
It’s hard to believe, but that’s the football season finished. Except, that is, for the various league playoffs, the World Cup just three weeks away, and the friendly internationals in between.
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RatingsJuice refreshes ITV2 audience
Whatever the chief ingredient of the juice of celebrities might be, it’s potent stuff, as ITV2’s comedy panel show breezes inexorably onwards.
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RatingsBear sees off veg challenge
On Channel 4 this week, a group of stranded, ravenous men of varying handiness dreamed of fine food and wine.
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RatingsITV scores a winner with Cup
A friend of mine owns a poster from the 1930s for a ferry company, advertising trips from Hull to Norway.
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RatingsJack's back with a bang
Jack’s back, covered as he is in scars inflicted by eight series of fist-fights, shootouts, drugs and the odd momentary death.
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RatingsBGT sees off Eurovision
In Blackadder III, Prince George declared himself as thick as a whale omelette, but even he’d have known a hit when one clouted him.