All articles by Stephen Price – Page 97
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RatingsGood News for Russell
Good News if you’re Russell Howard, not so much if you are interviewed in a car.
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RatingsEnt giants keep on growing
Strictly and X Factor’s momentum is unstoppable, while Downton Abbey bows out on a high.
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RatingsViewers take DIY option
James May’s Man Lab helped BBC2 secure victory over Channel 4 while the Apprentice’s spin-off series took an upswing.
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RatingsSoaps lather up audiences
This week’s consolidated report considers those stalwarts of the schedules, the soaps; the programmes that deliver between 7 and 10 million viewers to BBC1 and ITV1 on a daily basis.
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FeaturesGhoulish themes galore
Strictly closed the gap on The X Factor as both shows got into the spirit of Halloween.
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RatingsPower doc surges ahead
There are many opaque rules about sophisticated dinner parties, but an obvious one is: ‘Don’t talk about the workings of the National Grid, despite the six crème de menthes you’ve had.’ But after Tuesday, I’d start boning up on your pylons.
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RatingsRandom characters rack up ratings
Wizards, aliens, the Kray Twins, spies and an idiot all feature in this week’s consolidated ratings round-up.
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RatingsFrom Essex to the moon
Time to say farewell to the successful but calamitous The Inbetweeners as they bibble off into adulthood on 2.6 million/13%.
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RatingsStrictly takes to the air
The shiny floor show reaches new heights with a helping hand from a flying former minister
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RatingsITV’s big guns take primetime
A fifth of UK viewers tune into X Factor, while international football and Downton prove their worth.
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RatingsRecording an appetite for drama
High quality drama, the Inbetweeners and Lord Sugar pushed The X Factor out of the top ten most-recorded programmes for the first week of October.
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RatingsHoorah for the horror
Kurtz’s final words in The Heart Of Darkness were ‘the horror, the horror’. BBC4 was probably shouting ‘Hoorah, the horror’ as its History Of Horror movies began.
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RatingsEating up the TV schedules
With so much cooking and general foodiness around, this week I felt like I had stumbled into one of Heston Blumenthal’s more exquisitely eccentric menus: a last minute change to the starter, which arrived a day early, followed by a main course of annoying suits, garnished with Preparation H, and ...
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RatingsDCI Banks takes on Spooks
This week, in a dramatic network clash, BBC1’s spies and ITV1’s new lugubrious detective went head-to-head. But who arrested the biggest consolidated audience?
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RatingsSlow start for Sky’s Thorne
Amid the usual suspects of factual, entertainment, brand extensions and, of course, The Inbetweeners (2.2 million/11% excl+1), Sky 1 launched its latest mainstream big-scale drama.
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RatingsA case for detective dramas
Popular crime follows in Poe’s footsteps while the entertainment juggernauts collide.
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RatingsRyder Cup hits the Sky
Jasper Carrot once described golf on the telly as hours of televised sky. And mostly it is, but every two years it becomes a proper sport and ironically on Sky, the 2010 Ryder Cup was a cracker.
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RatingsCooking up a Grand Design
This week’s top 10 dominated by BBC2 contains stuff we Brits do best; watch people cook and talk about houses.
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RatingsNo ray of light for Daybreak
The breakfast show’s audience continues to fall, but there’s better news for ITV1 on Sunday nights.