All Top 100 shows articles – Page 31
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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.
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RatingsThe Voice sings loud and clear
While John Profumo, minister of war and soon-tobe epithet to a scandal, lounged around Bill Astor’s pool at Cliveden more than 50 years ago, talking of things toffs do, Christine Keeler sashayed up and a nation was gripped.
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RatingsOldie but goodie for ITV
At Christmas, time becomes your own personal property; it’s always five minutes past the yardarm somewhere and there’s usually time for one more mince pie.
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RatingsITV finds audience for Lucan
It’s been 40 years since the mystery of what happened to Lord ‘Lucky’ Lucan and this week ITV began its two part tale of the Earl who vanished from the bloody Belgravia scene.