All articles by Stephen Price – Page 72
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RatingsBBC2 rises with Bake Off return
Promise of soggy bottoms lures in pastry lovers, while celeb watching boosts Channel 5
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RatingsNon-PSBs win the day
With exploited Victorian children and sadistic murderers, it’s currently August rather than TS Eliot’s April that is the cruellest month.
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RatingsDragons slay sunday night
Jeremy Paxman’s beard may have captivated the Twitterverse, but if you’d squinted you could imagine him in a doublet slaying monsters with his broadsword, which seems appropriate in the week that the Dragons roared back.
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RatingsWatch hopes for the best
Football’s coming but right now it’s impolite to care as cricket takes the plaudits with more stirring performances.
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RatingsDoc spills BBC’s Blood
While watching the International Space Station glide serenely over our house each night this past week, I couldn’t stop myself muttering “Piiiigs In Space” in homage to the old Muppets sketch.
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RatingsRoyals rule on BBC4
There are an awful lot of kings and queens about at the moment and BBC4 joined in with its tales of the royal boudoir and the equally rambunctious goings-on of the Anglo Saxons and their falsely accused cake burner King Alfred.
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RatingsTucker is just the tonic
So, what are the implications of Malcolm Tucker being the new Doctor? Inevitably, YouTube has had many, many fruity ideas, but given the avowed desire for greater co-operation across the BBC, it does all rather suggest a post-watershed BBC3 brand extension.
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RatingsNo trouble at The Mill
Working in TV can be quite glamorous, but when August arrives, things do slow down – to the extent that my big job seems to be pairing up the hundreds of socks I own.
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RatingsHowzat! for a result
I am not sure there is any other sport in the world that can have a triumphant, historically significant result brought about directly by rain-induced inaction after four days of fruitless tussling. Which is why you have to love cricket.
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RatingsCartoons are a top draw
Displayed in the National Gallery is the Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo someone.
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RatingsFinal Top Gear laps Das Auto
In the card game Top Trumps, German Cars was the best pack to have. Memories of shouting “60 BHP” and “1760cc!” were evoked by Sunday’s BBC2 German car documentary, which, coincidentally, on the 99th anniversary of Britain declaring war on Germany, launched a, er, German season.
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RatingsPointless leaves ITV in a Twist
With heat like we had in July, I was hoping for a prolonged and corking thunderstorm of Cecil B De Mille proportions to end the scorchio summer.
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RatingsRun walks off with share rise
Although August is the month of holidays and a time when the news goes a bit round the bend –Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and whistling llamas on the Today programme was the starting gun – television still entices viewers.
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RatingsBaby joy for digital news
After naming the new royal urchin George Alexander Louis, I wondered if there might be a ‘By George, it’s a GAL’ headline.
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RatingsMisery is good for C4
Whatever the opposite of trouble at t’mill is (shindig at t’mill perhaps?), Channel 4 will have been toasting poor, oppressed child labour on Sunday evening.
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RatingsStar power wins for BBC4
BBC4 proved old stars never lose it as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor delivered nicely for the channel this week.
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RatingsA tough act to follow
With the Olympics boosting last year’s viewing figures, maintaining volume was always going to be difficult.
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RatingsSugar’s still the daddy
The Apprentice goes out strongly despite the heat, while Diana’s Dresses impresses for C4
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RatingsWeak outing from Strong
I thought it was just spoonbending. But it turns out Uri Geller, once a sort of secular swami figure to Mexico’s first lady, may also have knocked out radar systems with his mind.
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RatingsA Shore-fire hit for MTV
And the heat goes on; it’s great.I’ve forgotten what long trousers are like.