All articles by Stephen Price – Page 72
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RatingsHard labour benefits ITV
It’s like working in the tropics: blinds on the windows, electric fan wafting warm-ish air from side to side and causing occasional trouser-fluttering surprise when I’d forgotten about it.
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RatingsTennis nets BBC top slot
Wimbledon smashes the opposition, while New Tricks can’t compete with ITV’s Long Lost Family.
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RatingsSkins takes a bow for E4
Without a doubt, the scariest villain of all time is the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. BBC4 visited the location for his nefarious ne’er-do-well’s crimes this week and I hid behind a cushion. Elsewhere, Skins returned for a final fling and the top of the table revealed a ...
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RatingsC4 brings the Boss back
American Independence Day fell on Wednesday and Channel 4 liberated a new show from the schedule, replacing it with a repeat with some improvement. Elsewhere, we gained a fresh perspective on Britain’s war in Burma, while Rick Stein made me crave a curry.
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RatingsBBC in tune with Glasto
The subject of Channel 5’s Extraordinary People doc this week was Help! I’m 16 But I Look 60.
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RatingsBBC has the balls to win
Tennis triumphs for BBC1, while C4’s The Man With The 10-Stone Testicles attracts an eye-watering 3.1m.
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RatingsCracking show for egg doc
After declaring himself the egg man, John Lennon sang ‘goo goo g’joob’ – the noise the eggs made when, as a nipper, I spilled the contents of our weekly shopping trolley into the road.
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RatingsPick TV breaks for the Border
What was once Sky 3 is now Pick TV, and the Canadian border that you imagine might have a mounted Captain Kirk on the final frontier has delivered nicely.
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RatingsFamily affair boosts ITV
Does the god of news have a woe-ometer and is it cranked up to 10? Everything seems full of woe, and now it seems the lights may go out because the donkey peddling the power stations is running out of hay.
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RatingsSport is the winner
Someone said to me recently that 2013 was a non-sport year, which I found odd, because I’ve been watching a lot of it.
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RatingsWhite Queen rules okay
As demonstrated by the Live Aid performance, a Queen has a certain powerful aura.
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RatingsITV finds Long Lost viewers
Series returns with a record-breaking audience, as BBC1’s The Voice UK fails to improve on last year.
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RatingsAirport Live off to a flier
BBC2 donned its anorak, flexed its adenoids and went plane and bus spotting – to decent effect.
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RatingsBBC3 hits back of the net
I rang a call centre the other day. I was bamboozled into the wrong department by apparently not having enough choices to select, which, after pressing six on the third menu surprised me a bit.
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FeaturesDocs lose out to formats
Discovery’s focus on international rights and returnable shows highlights growing demand for formats.
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RatingsEgg-citing end for ITV’s BGT
Cowell’s talent machine romps to victory as stage stunt brightens up an otherwise flat week.
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RatingsThe Fall slays them all
I thought the most dangerous Tudor was the twerp who suggested Henry VIII write a song about sleeves, but it’s really bible translator William Tyndale, according to BBC2’s Tudor season, which continued in an anniversary-heavy week.
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RatingsA good call for BBC3
We’re on a new digital journey, with a new table breaking out those digital shows unconnected to PSB operators. But where they have breakout hits, they’ll still appear here; think of this as the definitive digital mirror to our top 100.
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RatingsBBC’s slot swap fails
When Swap Shop burst onto our screens all those years ago, it was like a TV programme beamed from Mars.
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RatingsDave clears up with Storage
We all have one. A cupboard stuffed with everything that has no home anywhere else.