All articles by Stephen Price – Page 83
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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.
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FeaturesBBC1’s loss is BBC2’s gain
Newsflash from the future: it’s October and BBC1 has just realised that BBC2 still has its schedule and is refusing to give it back.
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RatingsE! keeps up with the Kardashians
Having a touch of the Kardashians sounds like the sort of thing the Borgias might contract after a particularly debauched evening in the Vatican. Apparently, however, they are entirely different entities that are breaking records for E! in the same way the errant Pope and his troupe broke bed springs.
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RatingsOlympics wins gold for BBC
GB swimmers give Games broadcaster something to celebrate as ITV throws in the towel.
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RatingsBBC3 races into the lead
Growing up near Box Hill, I remember the Dorking mound as a place where the only bikers you saw were menacing angels caressing heavy looking chains; this weekend, sleeker cyclists took on the Hill on one of the plethora of dedicated Olympic channels.
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RatingsEnd of Line cheers BBC2
BBC2’s peerless Line Of Duty came to its shattering end, as did, more poignantly, Twenty Twelve.
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RatingsSuperstar is not the messiah
ITV1’s search for Jesus fails to attract disciples, but it strikes gold with Britain’s Secret Treasures.
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RatingsTeam Sky help out ITV
An old bank manager of mine had long sideburns and was instantly nicknamed Sidies – it’s the only thing he has in common with Bradley Wiggins, who helped ITV4 (and ITV1) to some decent ratings.
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RatingsUni quiz rises to challenge
As The Olympics loom, BBC2’s Twenty Twelve wandered brilliantly beyond parody and benefited. University Challenge returned for more random Monday-night guessing, while Line of Duty and 24 Hours in A&E charged on.
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RatingsFilm 4 finds the right fuel
Movies such as Avatar have helped Film 4 secure major audiences in recent weeks.
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FeaturesWiggins rides to the rescue
Unlike the meandering amateur Boris bikers gawping at some distant London landmark, the Tour De France is hardcore cycling, where mountains are meant to be ridden up and over.
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RatingsReboot tempts millions
Return of stripped Millionaire does the business for ITV1, but Jesus search is proving fruitless.
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RatingsJamie versus the volcano
In AD 79, Pliny the Younger described his Uncle Pliny the Elder’s decision to inspect the exploding Vesuvius by heading towards it; soon Nephew Pliny was Pliny the Only One.
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