Top 100 – Page 25
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CHARTS: England win it for BBC1
In a week dominated by the World Cup, England v Italy tops the table while Brazil v Croatia is ITV’s best.
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CHARTS: Cats win as babies lose out
ITV’s Secret Life of Cats narrowly beats BBC1’s Crimewatch but Babies episode falls to Happy Valley
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CHARTS: 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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CHARTS: 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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ITV 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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BBC1 hits the right note
In times of ubiquitous bad temperedness, Saturday’s annual reality holiday felt especially welcome.
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Mornings 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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Steady 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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Parking 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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BGT back with a bang
Cowell talent show and brand new Amazing Greys give ITV bragging rights for Saturday night
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War 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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Ant & 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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Charity 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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Soaps 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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Heavenly 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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BBC 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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Brits 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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A 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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DCI Banks battles BBC’s War
Among the running and jumping of summer 2012, we grappled with the spelling of Taekwando.
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BBC sword saga loses its edge
I once interrupted a big knobs’ meeting, holding the week’s schedule aloft.