All articles by Stephen Price – Page 73
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RatingsEquality adds up for BBC4
A century after the most dramatic moment in the campaign for women’s suffrage at the 1913 Derby, BBC4 launched its own comedic tribute to the movement.
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RatingsSkint poorer for BGT move
At school, I was scarred by the Tudors. Not from learning of their gangster-style rule but because my shoe-box model of a Tudor house was rubbish. Even now, anyone who mentions Tudor architecture to me is liable to get a rant about Clarks’ footware.
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RatingsBBC fails the test of time
All the talk last week revolved around time travel. Gary Lineker accused England of going back to the Dark Ages, while the latest Time Lord announced he was hanging up his screwdriver.
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RatingsDream finish for Bradford
Bradford had quite a week. First its football team won the League 2 play-offs at Wembley, then on TV, the city of dreams bowed out in glory.
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RatingsViewers rock out with BBC4
The ’80s popsters Prefab Sprout sang rather plaintively about The King Of Rock ’n’ Roll and, more mysteriously, Albuquerque.
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RatingsGoing to the dogs suits ITV
Around the corner from my house is a dog-walking emporium. As the chaotic canine circus hurtles by, it becomes clear that at the doggy meeting beforehand, the motion demanding anarchy carried the day.
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RatingsBBC2 wins as rivals take a Fall
As I walked to Chelsea Register Office, kitted out like Worzel Gummidge on dressdown Friday, I passed three chatting Russians in a tree – a surreal moment to match the registrar’s expression as I handed in my wedding forms.
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RatingsEastEnders’ loss is ITV’s gain
The BBC show has much to celebrate with its recent Bafta win, but a 10% share decline tells a different story. Stephen Price takes a look at how all the soaps are faring so far this year.
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RatingsAudience eats up Hannibal
Since Hannibal Lecter told Agent Starling he was “having a friend for dinner”, dinner parties have never been the same.
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RatingsSitcom double trouble for ITV
The phrase ‘double bill’ still resonates in my mind with memories of unruly behaviour in the cinema at Saturday morning kids’ club, which usually left the tearful boss, tended by an usherette, lying prone and covered in popcorn.
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RatingsC4 and C5 snooker BBC2
There are hoarders, high streets, hospitals and regency balls in Pride And Prejudice’s bicentennial year to chew over.
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RatingsA winner on two channels
This week’s TV offered not only noisy battles in a boxing ring but also a much-loved Coleman as a National Treasure-in-Waiting, locked her own ratings battle.
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RatingsBig total for Small Stuff
One website offering puns of the day goes back to 1999, when apparently April’s best one-liner was about a chicken being poultry in motion.
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RatingsSky’s mighty Following
When, 150 years ago, Ebenezer Morley sat around a pub table to establish the Football League by saying “right then lads, get the pints in and let’s codify footie”, I don’t imagine a voice piped up at the back: “Don’t forget the Dow Jones Index.”
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RatingsKay Live packs ‘em in for C4
Dave Allen was such an iconoclast that as he spun his barbed yarns I wouldn’t be surprised if his missing digit was due to literally giving the finger to some authority figure.
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RatingsComedy does the job for ITV
The sun’s shining, shorts are out, sandals unearthed, socks discarded and tin foil jammed firmly under the chin.
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RatingsSwedish crime hits new low
Not The Nine O’Clock news once famously suggested that Roald Dahl’s mother couldn’t spell Ronald; it seems she couldn’t spell Arnie either, as BBC4’s latest member of its Scandinavian Saturday Night Club continued.
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RatingsFox cracks the Da Vinci code
If Leonardo Da Vinci even knew where or what South Wales was, I bet that, equipped as he was with something of a wild imagination, he would never have thought that one day a fictionalised account of his life would be filmed in Port Talbot.
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RatingsThe sun shines on ITV
Warm weather takes its toll but BGT maintains lead over The Voice as Sundays shape up nicely
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RatingsIt’s hard labour for Prisoners
BBC1’s new doc series suffers at the hands of ITV as hit drama Broadchurch draws to a close