All articles by Stephen Price – Page 69
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RatingsBeach beats Valleys for MTV
In cupboard lore, it’s well known that you have to salvage the stuff others have stored before you can flog it. Appropriately enough, Quest has found those very salvagers to decent effect.
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RatingsChipper start for C4’s Fargo
Some movie scenes stick with you, like David Niven and Robert Wagner dressed as gorillas driving a sports car and being chased by Peter Seller’s Clouseau, the opening to Saving Private Ryan, or when Mr Vader owns up to being Luke’s dad.
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RatingsBBC2’s seed fails to grow
Given the furore over BBC1’s ‘Mumblegate’, it’s perhaps ironic that BBC2 should this week show a subtitled drama and the next night play a silent film.
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RatingsMushroom doc is magic
This week, in its studious fashion, BBC4 tapped into the magic world of fungi. Elsewhere, ITV2 spawned a new panel show, while E4 banged on with its geeks.
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RatingsSteady losses at BBC’s Jamaica Inn
Some scraps of dialogue have been found from Daphne du Maurier’s original draft of Jamaica Inn.
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RatingsITV hits high note with BGT
There’s no stopping the singing, dancing and juggling (or all three) talent show.
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RatingsSlim pickings for Mad Men
It’s about slightly awkward headwear, faraway places, high politics, a whiff of debauchery, existential despair and massive swords swishing metaphorically, and sometimes literally, about the place.
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RatingsBees create a buzz for BBC4
Winnie the Pooh, not one of literature’s great thinkers, was nonetheless prepared to gamble everything if honey was involved, as illustrated by the whole bees/tree/balloon fiasco of legend.
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RatingsParking problem for ITV
Having made it through the neverending rain with the increasingly panicky impression that January might not actually have ended, the spring bewilders us with a sudden phalanx of bank holidays showering themselves upon our pasty, sun-starved faces and the chance to watch a Bond movie or six.
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FeaturesHas BBC3 fulfilled its remit?
As the youth channel awaits approval for its move online, Stephen Price looks its performance over the past eight years
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RatingsBBC4 finds TV gold in Eden
In an unlikely contest this week, it turned out that suburban gardens can hold their own in a stand-off with a backpacked Olympic bronze medallist and porn.
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RatingsBGT back with a bang
Cowell talent show and brand new Amazing Greys give ITV bragging rights for Saturday night
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RatingsThrones roars ahead for Sky
The official motto of the (fictional) Westeros grand family House Lannister of Casterly Rock is, apparently, ‘hear me roar’.
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RatingsC4 quiz drops off the pace
William G Stewart first introduced us to 15 contestants, 14 of whom were destined to be unlucky, in January 1988. More than a quarter of a century on, and 10 years off the air, his former show has had a bumpy return.
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RatingsThe Trip stays on course
My school trips tended to be to places like Littlehampton or Eastbourne. All revolved around the same dreary experience: where to find shelter from the incessant wind-assisted rain to eat fish paste sandwiches and drink warm, weak squash out of a plastic beaker.
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RatingsE4 is back with a Bang
It’s likely that E4 whirled a jig of delight when The Big Bang Theory was awarded three more seasons.
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RatingsWalking Dead rise for Fox
If ever the dead walked, there would be something inexorable about them. Arms held stiffly out in front, hollow eyes, a lowing groan as they marched on, determinedly bent on some ghoulish, nefarious deed.
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RatingsMary Berry batters rivals
Mary Berry does a nice line in butter-wouldn’t-dare-melt demureness, but when it comes to ratings, the Queen of Buns is a killer – as all but the denizens of Weatherfield found out on Monday.
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RatingsWar saga captures viewers
Numbers can be like people. Occasionally, they interlope and confuse: the first time I heard The Special AKA belt out their African liberation anthem, and perhaps affected by the party atmosphere, I warbled lustily about three Nelson Mandelas.
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RatingsOne to Believe in for Watch
Apparently, director JJ Abrams might be casting unknowns for his new Star Wars film.