All articles by Stephen Price – Page 79
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RatingsExtra shine for Black Mirror
Getting into a lift in busy, cacophonous Tunis, with all its ancient Carthaginian history and recent rebelliousness, it feels rather incongruous to stand in an airtight box listening to classic piano for 20 seconds.
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RatingsBBC blasts C4 in meteor war
This week, there was much toing and froing. Stephen Poliakoff headed out as a long-loved favourite began its final run, while Sue Perkins’ Heading Out was invited in.
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RatingsRecipe for success eludes
ITV Simon Cowell’s Food Glorious Food fails to get viewers tucking in, while Mayday sinks Mr Selfridge
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RatingsChivalry isn’t dead on BBC4
Every day there’s treachery, manoeuvring and a need to do anything to survive. But enough of TV; it seems medieval England was also a ruthless place.
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RatingsViewers warm to Ripper St
It was the end of a long hot day in Western Australia and the street namers’ creative juices were corked.
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NewsBBC2 stays on track
Trains are the rattle-ridden tinny and frozen things you get stuck in when you’re stranded by the wrong kind of snow/rain/leaves or general points failure.
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RatingsViewers fill up on Takeaway
Ant & Dec give ITV a timely boost, while The Brits proves too strong for BBC1’s Meet The Izzards.
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RatingsAll change for daytime
As Liam Keelan exits BBC Daytime, what sort of inheritance has he left his successor Damian Kavanagh?
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RatingsMusic history charts well
BBC4 celebrated vinyl this week, but them days are gone. Or not, if ITV2’s new reunion hit is any guide.
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RatingsHD boost for BBC shows
Just how smart are smart TVs? Do they know the capital of France, the average weight of cheese or why England’s cricket team can be brilliant then suddenly hopeless? Do they know why we are all here? Probably not.
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RatingsAll over for Africa & Mrs B
BBC1’s Comedy Mondays end on a low, but ITV harnesses Clunes’ Horsepower
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RatingsGoodbye, it’s been such fun
If I owned a car park in Winchester, I’d be getting worried. For dead king hunting is now a thing, and municipal car parks seem to offer rich pickings.
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RatingsOld stars still draw a crowd
Pop music used to be ephemeral, but no longer. For while Liberty X might be more Liberty Why? these days, they can still draw a crowd, as ITV2 found out.
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RatingsA matter of life and death
Murder among palm trees, prisons and serial killers whetted the viewers’ appetite this week and, by Jove, they lapped them all up with a spoon.
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RatingsBaking queen takes the cake
Without wishing to invent some new sort of rotisserie baking method, it’s a bun revolution out there.
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RatingsRepeats save Sky’s Bacon
Fresh from demanding that we be ubiquitous with our next phone choice, Kevin Bacon pops up as a washed-up serial-killer hunter; Sky Atlantic will be pleased.
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RatingsBirth, death and taxes
Somewhere in the pages of Margaret Mitchell’s voluminous novel Gone With The Wind there is a line that laments: ‘Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never a convenient time for any of them!’
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RatingsBakers bring relief to BBC2
The first Comic Relief was terribly daring: lots of radical comedians beseeching us to bypass heartless government and laugh our way to chariddy.
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RatingsITV still making a Splash!
A mere 200 years ago, Jane Austen sat at her desk pondering the opening of Pride And Prejudice.
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RatingsDecent entry for E4’s Diary
Teenage diaries are full of youthful woe; grown-ups’ tend to be used as reminders to put the bins out.