All articles by Stephen Price – Page 80
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RatingsThe British give Sky a lift
The Sky revolution continues apace and this week it was The British who were coming.
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RatingsGames bow out on a high
The Paralympics has ended. Sob. Throughout, Channel 4 collected very tidy shares and lots of lovely - and, it would hope, lucrative - viewers to boot.
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RatingsDoctor Who’s back with a bang
Doctor Who’s return to BBC1 was recorded by nearly 2m viewers making it one of the highest rating episodes in close to two years.
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RatingsDramatic victory for ITV1
Channel battles back after a summer dominated by London 2012 with a win in the 9pm drama face-off.
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RatingsLemon puts squeeze on
ITV2 is benefiting from that most citrus of fruits as Celebrity Juice returned in a Thursday night ‘squeeze of Lemons’.
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RatingsRoyal in-laws woo viewers
The full gamut of the dramatic narrative was on display this week. It felt a bit like being at school in double English, studying a very thick and intense book full of meaning, apparently, and then rushing home to watch Hong Kong Phooey.
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RatingsOpening ceremony buoys C4
New Tricks and Doctor Who return for BBC1, but ITV1’s The X Factor still rules the roost .
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RatingsC4’s parallel universe a hit
The Paralympics, are so called because they are sort of parallel to the Olympic Games. Wednesday transported Channel 4 to a parallel universe as its coverage of the opening ceremony caused havoc.
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RatingsOlympics Broadcasting: record-breaking TV
The London 2012 Olympics helped the BBC wipe the floor with the commercial channels – and the Paralympics could do something similar for C4. Stephen Price reports.
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RatingsGeorge returns strongly
ITV will want to forget about its chastening August, as BBC1 favourites draw the viewers.
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RatingsWeight loss gains viewers
The Hairy Bikers quest to lose weight was recorded by nearly half a million BBC2 viewers taking it to the best audience of the series.
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RatingsGood start for Parade’s End
The spectral image of a nun at a coronation was the spookiest sight this week in Channel 4’s latest royal documentary. Elsewhere, BBC2 found its buns rising and its parade ending in a very ‘channel of the year’ kind of way.
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RatingsTop marks for Bad Education
Bad Education – the BBC3 Jack Whitehall sitcom, not the shabby treatment of GCSE English students – has found its feet quickly.
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RatingsYesterday’s Secret is out
I once worked at the Museum Of London and was party to some pretty interesting secrets, not least a need to obscure the mushroom vol au vents from the then arts minister at a museum do. However, Yesterday’s museum secrets no longer seem all hushed up.
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RatingsOlympics take the honours
It all feels like a faraway dream: the wild cheering, the tears of joy/despair and the super-human feats amid the general balmy madness of the Olympics.
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RatingsKay takes the cake-makers
The buns are back in town, as Thin Lizzy never said (but I bet they wish they had). BBC2 had more fun with baking and enjoyed the origins of the Paralympics.
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RatingsAutumn battle begins
Post Olympics, attention turns to Saturdays, with the return of X Factor and Red Or Black?
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FeaturesViewers want to have fun
For all time, seemingly, the news has been dominated by grey men and women talking solemnly about the financial crises and scandals that afflict our daily lives, assuring us all that this time it’s all fixed; it never is. So it’s no big surprise that the Olympics has caught fire ...
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FeaturesA clean sweep for BBC
Soaps provide some cheer for ITV1 as Olympics coverage dominates the week’s viewing.
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FeaturesLemon comes to ITV2’s aid
Who needs actual reality when you can have a heightened version of it? That seemed to be ITV2’s thinking as Keith Lemon’s new series joined TOWIE in the schedules to good effect; an alternative to the Olympics.