All articles by Stephen Price – Page 77
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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
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RatingsThe Geordies shore up MTV
The occasionally disturbing thing about having the music system on random play is that you get quite an eclectic menu.
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RatingsDefiance pays off for Syfy
This week, Syfy found that in a post-apocalyptic world, the appliance of defiance brings riches, as the channel’s newest import landed with a thump.
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RatingsC5 soap cleans up in new slot
In the packed coffee houses of Enlightenment times, I expect there was a simple divide: are you for gravity or pots?
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RatingsQuiet return for Mad Men
It was a bit like being taken around a surrealist exhibition with a suspiciously strong cocktail in hand when Mad Men returned with a feature-length episode.
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RatingsBBC2 has it all sewn up
As I write this, crowds from far and wide are gathering despite the gloomy start to the day for an occasion that may be divisive and will certainly get partisan blood flowing. Supporters of both sides will be passionately hoping their side wins the day and there may well be ...
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RatingsA ratings cure from the NHS
As a yoof, I saw enough of NHS wards to last a lifetime. But if you like hospitals, this was the week for you. All three channels had a variation, and all won their slots.
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RatingsBGT back to silence The Voice
ITV juggernaut sees off BBC1 singing contest, while the death of a PM fails to draw in big numbers
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RatingsDigital plays supporting role
From new shows like ITV2’s The Big Reunion to stalwarts like E4’s Hollyoaks, broadcasters’ ‘digital family’ of channels are making an important contribution.
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RatingsBig freeze boost for BBC1
Hits from Miranda to Death In Paradise help the channel increase share in the first quarter, while Channel 4 and Channel 5 lose 12% in peak.
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RatingsGame on for Sky’s Thrones
Once at a wedding in Copenhagen, a faultlessly polite Dane asked my friend what we might do in Denmark. Go to Malmo, replied my friend; Malmo is of course in Sweden.