All articles by Stephen Price – Page 39
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RatingsTop 15 consolidated shows: 17-23 Oct
The 11th episode of the 14th series of BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing achieved 11.2 million/48% after 1.2 million recorded and watched.
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RatingsCelebrity Juice a winner on fright night
This week, Keith Lemon guided his juicy show through another triumphant Halloween.
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RatingsHumans fails to come to life
I am beginning to wonder if being human is all it’s cracked up to be.Perhaps it would be better if the machines did take over. Surely they’d be no more dangerous than some of the brains currently seeking or exercising power.Maybe though, as Channel 4’s robot ...
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RatingsLife beyond Downton Abbey
Factual is at a turning point for ITV as dramas such as The Durrells and Victoria help to plug the gap on Sunday nights and the entertainment juggernauts roll on.
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RatingsTop 30 multichannel shows: 3-9 Oct 2016
On Saturday night, as the ex-shadow chancellor busted some eye-popping moves in a terrifying green face, ITV2 played the actual movie The Mask opposite. Meanwhile, the story of a doomed Queen’s watch did nicely for BBC4.
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RatingsTop 50 non-PSB shows: 3-9 Oct 2016
Last week, I found myself watching a documentary about my local shopping centre as the robotic and entertainingly dressed clientele went about their sinister business in a world that looked real enough and yet was somehow unearthly.
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RatingsTop consolidated shows: 26 Sep-3 Oct
Historians writing about 2016 will not, I fear, be kind. The incoherent, fear-fuelled rage against, you know, something, will look immature and foolish to posterity.
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RatingsTop 100 shows: 3-9 Oct
After England’s unwieldy performance under its caretaker manager against plucky Malta, I half expected Scooby-Doo and the gang to rush to the touchline and yank off his mask to reveal a scheming baddy muttering that he’d have got away with it if it weren’t for those pesky kids.
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 3-9 Oct 2016
The current obsession with nostalgia continued this week as BBC2 took Culture Club’s hatted and plaited leader back to the suburbs of his yoof. Elsewhere, after BBC2’s desert tortoises, Channel 4’s Bear exited, with celebrities in tow.
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CommentYoung viewers don’t come cheap
Time and again at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, the BBC highlighted the appeal of The Great British Bake Off to young audiences.
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RatingsRatings analysis: Redefining hits and misses
While audiences are down on five years ago, decent ratings are still achievable - especially in drama. Stephen Price examines how what will earn a show a recommission has changed
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RatingsTop 50 non-PSB shows: 22-28 Aug 2016
This week, MTV’s beach show continued merrily, while Quest benefited from some Aussie blokes digging about outdoors rather than lying around in the sun.
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RatingsTop 30 multichannel shows: 22-28 Aug 2016
This week, ITV2’s The Xtra Factor Live stormed back onto the screen and then stumbled, while passengers on BBC4’s liner waved as it barged past and E4’s Chelsea-ites improved.
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 22-28 Aug 2016
This week, BBC1’s erstwhile Victorian London thriller, released from its Amazonian home and making its BBC2 debut, began rather handily.
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RatingsTop 15 consolidated shows: 15-21 August 2016
This week, in a development The Bard might enjoy, a funny and hilariously rude new sitcom from online-only BBC3 did rather nicely on BBC2.