Top 100 – Page 19
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Good karma for ITV
Hospital drama launches well against BBC1’s Apple Tree Yard but Not Going Out beats Piers Morgan
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Sunday success for BBC1
Countryfile, Still Open All Hours and Call The Midwife give channel the upper hand over ITV
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Midwife delivers for BBC1
Period drama tops the table on its return despite attracting its lowest overnight launch audience yet
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Football saga a winner
ITV’s Bobby & Tina launches well, while all three big entertainment shows lose viewers
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Barlow outshines The Voice
BBC1’s Let It Shine the winner as TV talent contests go head to head on Saturday night.
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Sporting champs defeat Midsomer
This week a year which historians will ponder for aeons began its final lap. Telly also started wrapping up the autumn in preparation for the looming festivities before unveiling winter’s smorgasbord of goodies.
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X Factor ends on flat note
Final results show is lowest since 2006, but I’m A Celebrity… finale spares ITV’s blushes
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Strictly pips I'm A Celebrity final
I live quite close to what was Rillington Place. It has changed its name since and the houses are modern, but there’s a gap where No.10 would have been. Filling it is a small garden, impaired by history, rather melancholy but quietly dignified.
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Big Show adds to X Factor misery
After much probably unintended yet welcome hilarity, a teenager finally dropped its Ed Balls. No amount of coquettish pouting on Strictly’s 14th series was going to save this man from the sequinned boot once the red dance-off beam of doom had him in its sights.
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X Factor shows its age
Once, like a colossus, ITV’s singing competition stood proudly across Saturday and Sunday nights, squishing all-comers.
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BBC wins storming Sunday
Ordinarily, Ed Balls’ Gangnam Style salsa would be the most terrifying thing you’re ever likely to see; well, that or a bobcat swimming towards you.
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Planet Earth takes off
This week, BBC1’s sequel, Planet Earth II – the return of the killer planet – dealt with the opposition in much the same way as that pit of snakes did the sea-bound baby iguanas.
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Bake Off bows out on a high
This week, Bake Off waved an imperious and huge goodbye to BBC1; perhaps fatigued by the excitement, the next day’s review of 2015 made many fewer people’s soufflés go up and down.
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Top 100 shows: 10-16 Oct
One of the most over-used and obsolete phrases in politics is “we’re not going to give you a running commentary on…”. It’s usually about something long-running that everyone knows the answer to already, like the third runway at Heathrow.
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Top 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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Top 100 shows: 22-28 August 2016
Great British Bake Off returns with best ever launch as ITV’s The X Factor slumps from last year’s opener
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Top 100 network programmes: 11 - 17 July 2016
BBC1’s adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent launched below slot average
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Top 100 network programmes: 4 - 10 Jul 2016
BBC triumphs in head-to-head battle after Andy Murray win kicks off a day to remember
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Top 100 network programmes: 27 June - 3 Jul 2016
Home nation’s defeat to minnows Iceland draws 11 million as Euro 2016 again dominates the table