All articles by Stephen Price – Page 76
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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.
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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.