All articles by Stephen Price – Page 69
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RatingsMurder most successful
At school, I got into terrible difficulty trying to build a model Tudor house out of an old shoe box.
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RatingsUK dramas fail to impress
The autumn assault of US dramas on UK shores is a constant one, and while Sky Living’s sultry and sanguine Dracula waits in the wings, two more turned up on our screens. At the same time, homemade dramas launched head to head on the UK’s two biggest channels, but were ...
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RatingsViewers enjoy a good moan
According to Dave and Karl, modern life barely gets off the mat; at best, it seems it’s good-ish before subsiding to something that has to be endured with the maximum of irritability.
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RatingsBBC4 quiz fails to connect
“Take your BBC1 shilling and be gone Buns!’ BBC2, wounded but proud, points dramatically to the exit. Then with barely a beat, but arms akimbo, it welcomes a quiz with hieroglyphics. BBC4 turns around, looks at the drawing board and says huffily: “Well?”
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RatingsBarks better than pub bites
I don’t know why the phrase ‘the county’s going to the dogs’ is such a pejorative one; certainly, commissioners can’t get enough of our woofy friends.
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RatingsX Factor loses its lustre
The shortening days always come as a disappointment, even though, without fail, it happens every year. But it feels especially poignant this year, as we bid adieu to the long hot days of the Grand Summer of 2013.
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RatingsDave’s Dave is goodish
My PE teacher, with barely disguised sarcasm, frequently said that my javelin throwing was “in a league of its own” – more often, it ended up on the chemistry department’s roof.
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RatingsRepeats work for Some Girls
Some girls, said the Rolling Stones, give money, clothes and heart attacks.
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RatingsIT Crowd in seven heaven
One of the best gags ever was The IT Crowd’s notion that the entire internet was kept in a small box with a red flashing light on top, with Jen as its trusted custodian.
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RatingsStrictly waltzes to the top
Brucie’s absence doesn’t stop BBC1 show from stealing a march on ITV rival The X Factor
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RatingsC4’s S.H.I.E.L.D. comes down
Superhero comics missed a trick when coming up with supervillains.
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FeaturesSky Living: ratings analysis
Sky Living’s move towards US and homegrown drama is paying dividends.
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RatingsDave’s Dave is a good watch
It was inevitable that a Dave would have his own show on Dave, and so it proved as Dave Gorman launched his new show to decent numbers.
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RatingsNo mystery to ITV3 success
“It’s a mystery,” Toyah Wilcox once squeaked, leaping about the stage. Some years on from that postpunk anthem, she remains correct in her observation; except it’s a murder mystery, and they love it.
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RatingsBack to school for C4 viewers
The People’s Republic of Yorkshire has produced its fair share of famous people: Guy Fawkes, the inventor of the cat’s eyes Percy Shaw, Emile Bronte and Geoffrey Boycott.
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RatingsDownton back with a bang
More than 9 million tune in for period drama’s return as BBC’s alternative, By Any Means, falters
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RatingsKids and dogs work wonders
Spas are meant to administer balmy treatments to soothe away the stresses of daily living.
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RatingsSlow start for ITV dramas
The early autumn has revealed a difference in schedule strategy between BBC1 and ITV. BBC1 launched much of its current line-up in late summer, whereas ITV waited… waited… then sprang into action like a coiled cat with loads of new stuff as soon as August tipped into September.
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RatingsThe calm before the storm
With the BBC yet to bring out its Autumn big guns, ITV completes a clean sweep of the top 10
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RatingsBBC4 living la dolce vita
BBC4’s championing of the subtitled drama has been famously led by the dourly compelling ‘Scandi Noir’.