All articles by Stephen Price – Page 73
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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’.
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RatingsAlibi cracks it with Rizzoli
This week saw a veritable smorgasboard of goings-on as young couples fell in love despite having never met, the staff of North Carolina’s Lizard Lick Towing & Recovery Company fended off bullets and fists, while in fiction, a detective and a doc chased down the baddies.
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RatingsBBC2 plays a Blinder
The Midlands might not necessarily be at the cutting edge of fashion, but as BBC2’s new drama showed this week, you wouldn’t want to be making too many flat cap and whippet gags back in 1920s Brum.
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RatingsBake Off still a hot property
You can tell when it’s autumn: the PSBs engage in a big Wednesday night tussle, with three shows hunting down similar audiences.
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RatingsJack’s back to buoy BBC3
I sometimes think most of my teachers were like Jack Whitehall in BBC3’s Bad Education.
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RatingsA double dose of Lemon aid
In my garden there is a young lemon tree. It’s very nice and until last week, it was threatening to deliver actual lemons, fooled into thinking it was living in lemon-growing territory like Italy, Greece or Florida.
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RatingsA good result for Sky Sports
Storage Hunters has found some space. Half the top 10, in fact, as a new series of those pesky cupboards and their contents landed on Dave.
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RatingsRound one to Strictly
X Factor loses the first Saturday night fight, but Sunday’s episode comes out on top overall
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RatingsFactual takes centre stage
With both BBC1 and ITV looking to strengthen their factual output, all eyes are on the genre. Stephen Price reports on how the broadcasters have performed so far this year
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RatingsIcing on cake for Bake Off
Maybe it’s because the news is so grim, but at 8pm on Tuesday nights people are eschewing the world of woe, perhaps delighted to fret instead about the state of strangers’ petit fours or Victoria sponges in a tent in the middle of a field; it’s as close to literally ...
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RatingsYou’ll never watch alone
The phrase ‘curate’s egg’ barely describes the cornucopia of this week’s review.