All Top 100 shows articles – Page 29
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV claims half-term victory
The World Cup looms, promising fame like a faintly sinister hawker; all the fun of the Fifa fair is to be had if you’re rich.
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV wins with BGT and footy
It’s probably just coincidence, but the weather that is making such a mockery of May is storming in from Europe.
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RatingsITV scores a winner with Cup
A friend of mine owns a poster from the 1930s for a ferry company, advertising trips from Hull to Norway.
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RatingsBBC1 hits the right note
In times of ubiquitous bad temperedness, Saturday’s annual reality holiday felt especially welcome.
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RatingsMornings brighter for ITV
In 1982, the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers merged with the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union to form the GMBATU.
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RatingsSteady losses at BBC’s Jamaica Inn
Some scraps of dialogue have been found from Daphne du Maurier’s original draft of Jamaica Inn.
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RatingsParking problem for ITV
Having made it through the neverending rain with the increasingly panicky impression that January might not actually have ended, the spring bewilders us with a sudden phalanx of bank holidays showering themselves upon our pasty, sun-starved faces and the chance to watch a Bond movie or six.
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RatingsBGT back with a bang
Cowell talent show and brand new Amazing Greys give ITV bragging rights for Saturday night
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RatingsWar saga captures viewers
Numbers can be like people. Occasionally, they interlope and confuse: the first time I heard The Special AKA belt out their African liberation anthem, and perhaps affected by the party atmosphere, I warbled lustily about three Nelson Mandelas.
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RatingsAnt & Dec beat Kylie and Tom
On our road there’s a tree that, at this time of year, produces a sappy, sticky fruit.
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RatingsCharity pays off for BBC1
I was a cub scout for just a week. Consequently, I missed the bit about being prepared, always.
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RatingsSoaps still clean up in ratings
The number 21 million weighed on my mind this week. Why? I’ll give you a clue: it’s from a faded Guardian cutting from February 1994, just over 20 years ago.
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RatingsHeavenly boost for Channel 4
That’s it, then. No more wobbly triple axels, uncertain camel spins or hydrant lifts of a Sunday night.
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RatingsBBC puts ITV up the Creek
The fear of all middle-managers is the dreaded call to attend an executive training course involving role-playing.
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RatingsBrits not a hit with viewers
Where was the parent-jarring madness? Gone, it seems, are the days of rock stars mooning or machine-gunning on the Brit Awards stage, or an anarchist band hurling water over the deputy prime minister.
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RatingsA Scandi boost for Midsomer
Down through the ages, the UK has often found itself smitten with a fad that promised adventure or riches.
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RatingsDCI Banks battles BBC’s War
Among the running and jumping of summer 2012, we grappled with the spelling of Taekwando.
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RatingsBBC sword saga loses its edge
I once interrupted a big knobs’ meeting, holding the week’s schedule aloft.
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RatingsBBC dares to win on Saturday
At an evening of cello scraping on Saturday, I was reminded why I couldn’t master a musical instrument.
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RatingsBBC has its time in the Sun
When I was a humble ratings estimator, an agitated sales exec asked why I’d rated so highly a drama that had yet to air. “Because it’s on in January and it’s got the word ‘summer’ in the title,” I blurted. To my relief, it was believed.