All articles by Stephen Price – Page 87
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RatingsBGT fails to silence The Voice
Spoils are shared as Saturday night battle begins, but Sport Relief slumps to an all-time low.
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RatingsC4 wins game of catch-up
The top 10 makes good reading for Channel 4: three of its big brands continue to feature strongly, and two of them are factual, boding well for its experiment with catch-up service 4Seven.
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RatingsA nice Touch for Sky 1
“Don’t touch that” was something I was told a lot as a child, but I didn’t listen (as the time I put my finger in a socket at college proved). Sky 1 launched a Touch of its own this week, Yesterday celebrated the jet set, while BBC3 turned sportsmen into ...
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RatingsRatings: imports show power of VoD
For every acquired hit like Mad Men or The Killing there’s a Pan Am or New Girl struggling to find an audience – but catch-up is increasingly coming to the rescue. Stephen Price reports
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RatingsThree’s the magic number
MasterChef triple bill keeps viewers hooked on BBC1 while ITV1’s Scott & Bailey returns with a splash
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RatingsBikers beat business guru
Hairy men overturn sharp young fixer. An unusual sentence to start proceedings I agree, but it’s true as the Hairy Bikers returned to BBC2 and improved on Alex Polizzi’s businessy ways.
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RatingsToasting Welsh Stella
In the week that Wales won the Grand Slam and we lost the brilliant 1970’s Welsh rugby captain Merv ‘The Swerve’ Davies, it seems appropriate to chew over the completed series of Stella; more Welsh than laverbread and daffodils.
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RatingsSpray tans given boost
ITV1’s Benidorm is being recorded by nearly a million viewers while Geordie Shore, the Walking Dead, Glee and Homeland all recieved a PVR boost.
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RatingsAudience cool on White Heat
The vogue for mining recent history continued this week with BBC2’s drama White Heat beginning in the 60s, as one era officially died and a less certain but more thrilling one began.
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RatingsThat end of term feeling
With Sport Relief and BGT looming, a number of shows ended and football dominated.
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FeaturesGently does it for BBC4’s Dirk
As the Large Hadron Collider gears up its latest search for the Higgs Bosun, maybe it can also look out for whatever it was that made Douglas Adams’ brain. His Dirk Gently stories do make you wonder if it was created somewhere other than here.
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RatingsBowled over by a BBC4 doc
As BBC4 approached its tenth birthday, it gave us a place to think in an epically brilliant film on what West Indies cricket meant beyond mere sport.
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RatingsThe best and worst of British
This week’s channel overview includes Make Bradford British, Melvyn Bragg and Homeland.
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RatingsBFGW usurps drama shows
For the first time in a while, the top recorded show of the week isn’t a drama. Instead it’s – what else? – Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.
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RatingsEmpire no match for Queen
BBC1’s Paxman-fronted doc falls short of Marr series as Whitechapel wins the slot for ITV1.
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RatingsBright start for Grimm
The debut of US fantasy drama Grimm drew more than a million viewers - the second highest-rating programme ever on UKTV’s Watch.
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RatingsITV2 can’t do without Kyle
If ITV2 considers Celebrity Juice and The Only Way is Essex to be brand-defining, then the Jeremy Kyle Show might be the series it can’t ever do without.
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RatingsBFGW dresses lose sparkle
Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings saw a large drop in numbers for its second episode of the series.
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RatingsAdele in good company
The Brits hits the right note for ITV1, while The Diamond Queen reigns supreme for BBC1.