All articles by Stephen Price – Page 99
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RatingsStaying in for the summer
The Great Flight fails to materialise as BBC again wins the Saturday night handbags.
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RatingsBBC going berserk in Baker St
As ITV1 goes quiet, BBC’s five new series score well, including its all-conquering Sherlock update.
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RatingsWhy old is gold in TV land
Favourites Heartbeat and Taggart continue to pull in the viewers as new drama and ent shows launch.
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RatingsThey think it’s all over...
…It is now, but the World Cup dominates the ratings once more as new shows prepare to take over.
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RatingsManhunt fuels thirst for news
While the multi-million pound football festival in South Africa was coming to an end this week, a more homespun tragedy was unfolding in the north of England. Sky and BBC news channels saw large audiences on Friday as the week-long hunt for Raoul Moat ended.
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RatingsSex still sells but Dive sinks
‘Big Brother moves to 8pm for Sex Shock’. Calm down dears, it’s a schedule thing. In its heyday, C4’s schedule revolved around Big Brother; now we see the first signs of ignominy as three times this week it makes way for The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal? in the ...
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RatingsPuzzle of schedule patterns
World Cup knockout phase takes over schedules, leaving channels asking how best to deploy soaps.
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RatingsAlmighty start for ‘vicarcom’
BBC2’s 10pm comedy line-up this week began with the first episode of the new vicar sitcom Rev, slotting into Monday and attracting a promising 2.2 million/10.7%.
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RatingsIt’s a family affair for BBC3
A hapless dad, a talking dog and an evil genius baby took top slot this week as Family Guy scored 1.2 million/6% for BBC3 on Sunday night, beating off the challenge of ITV2’s only slightly less cartoonish Peter Andre: The Next Chapter’s 1.1 million/5%.
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RatingsForecast, like team, is rubbish
Ridiculous ratings predictions added to the surrealism, but BBC1 at least ended on a high.
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RatingsCup runneth over to HD
Share to all the satellite channels during major events on terrestrial TV usually declines, reversing the perpetual upward trend.
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RatingsCompeting for attention
As the World Cup parps on in South Africa, BBC2 and Channel 4 can defend and define themselves with their own events: Wimbledon and Big Brother. BBC2 even had the additional bonus of a new series of Top Gear.
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RatingsPirates find TV treasure
World Cup bobbing and weaving can be seen in the digital world as broadcasters strive for alternative audiences. BBC3, for instance, used Pirates Of The Caribbean: At The World’s End, twice, to deflect football on two different channels.
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RatingsITV’s Cup gamble pays off
The first two England games on ITV1 secured huge ratings as viewing skewed towards football.
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RatingsSuccess away from football
This week Channel 4 and BBC2 saw success at the two ends of the anti-World Cup spectrum - Big Brother for younger viewers and Springwatch for the discerning older crowd.
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RatingsITV Talent flattens everyone
Although overall audiences were down, a stretched-out BGT dominated the week’s ratings.
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RatingsRepeats make longer game
EastEnders, clobbered this week by ITV1’s BGT, was found by much of its missing audience via the BBC3 catch-up; a manner of viewing now completely familiar and, along with +1 channels and PVRs, forcing the ratings ‘winners and losers’ debate into a longer game.
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RatingsFamiliarity beats novelty
With a whopping week on a bigger rival what do you play against it? A familiar schedule? Or is it an opportunity to try something new?
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RatingsTV Janitor clears ITV schedule
Weak series endings for All At Sea and Marco as ITV prepares for BGT week and World Cup.
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FeaturesFrom strikers to tenors
Prior to 1990, if anyone had said that opera and football would be synonymous they’d have been thought barking mad.