All articles by Stephen Price – Page 76
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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.
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Ratings1.2m lap up Lemon’s Juice
The Edinburgh Festival ended this week, with BBC3 celebrating the up and coming, while a juice and two Xtras returned to ITV2.
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NewsC5 takes no prisoners
Whenever a late-night repeat of Prisoner Cell Block H was moved, its ‘fans’ would mobilise – a warning for Channel 5’s new prison drama.
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RatingsMaking a song and dance
ITV spearheads autumn push with mass-appeal formats Stepping Out and The X Factor
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RatingsThe Mill goes out on top
This week had a certain fin de siècle about it as three dramas all ended on the same night, with mixed fortunes.
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RatingsChickens falls fowl of Trollied
One thing is for sure: 2014 is going to have one or two programmes about World War I dotted about the schedule, or possibly swarming all over it.
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RatingsBig day joy for BBC3’s Brides
Any bride would surely be elated with a half-time ceremony at Stoke City FC in front of 28,000 strangers.
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RatingsTop Boy fails to rule NY
The Great British Bake Off is back with a bang and rivals might be newly a-feared of Tuesday’s tented bun-meisters.
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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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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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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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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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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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RatingsCartoons are a top draw
Displayed in the National Gallery is the Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo someone.
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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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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.