All Channel Overview articles – Page 21
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RatingsBBC2 rises to the challenge
BBC2’s combo of University Challenge and Mary Berry Everyday both pulled in more than 2 million
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RatingsPotters on fire for BBC2
Johnny Vegas helped The Great Pottery Throw Down to its biggest audience to date
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RatingsPotters craft a series high
BBC2’s The Great Pottery Throwdown hit a series high of 2.1 million on Thursday
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RatingsC4’s The Jump takes tumble
The third episode achieved 1.8 million, the lowest of this run so far
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RatingsBBC2 Special Forces deliver
BBC2’s third Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week achieved 1.2 million, defeating C4’s Homeland
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RatingsPotters beat Bargain Brits
BBC2’s The Great Pottery Throw Down returned with 1.8 million beating C4’s The Secret Life Of 5 Year-Olds and C5’s Bargain Loving Brits In The Sun.
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RatingsBBC2 freezes out rivals
BBC2’s best Winterwatch was Monday’s 8pm edition with 3.2 million beating C4’s Dispatches and Food Unwrapped, as well as Channel 5’s Police Interceptors repeat.
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RatingsA+E to the rescue for C4
C4’s hospital factual drew 2 million viewers last Tuesday, defeating CBB’s 1.8 million.
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RatingsCBB Hell is heaven for C5
Each winter brings, with increasing savagery, an NHS crisis, and with one currently blowing a hard chill, BBC2 fast-tracked a fly-on-the-medic doc series. Elsewhere, Channel 5 sent its inmates to hell.
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RatingsArresting start for No Offence
The second series of Paul Abbott’s C4 comedy drama No Offence debuted on Wednesday at 9pm with 1.9 million/8% (320,000 +1), its second best overnight after series one’s opener: 2.2 million/ 10% (323,000 +1) on 5 May 2015.
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RatingsDavid Blaine magics up 1.2m
This week as Channel 4 reminded us that David Blaine is still out there doing something or other BBC2’s intrepid traveller stayed home to fix lives.
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RatingsC4 finds a festive jewel
It must be nearly Christmas since Kirstie has started knitting her own festive jewellery. But before anyone gets carried away, BBC2 alliteratively reminded us of a disaster.Video:Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 5 - 11 DecChannel 4’s Our Guy In China wrapped up with 1.6 ...
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RatingsAntiques bring value to BBC2
As if it’s not quite thrilling enough seeing long-haired lover Donny Osmond and Amarillo-dreamin’ Tony Christie rummaging around the Midlands for bric-a-brac, this week, BBC2’s antiques ramble went berserk and put Donny in a De Lorean – the automotive equivalent of bric-a-brac.
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RatingsTop table for BBC2's chefs
Forty years ago, it fell to West Bromwich of all places to promote black footballers and take on racists. On Sunday, BBC2’s doc about a strange but significant football match in 1979 defeated Channel 4’s Humans, as it did quite a few low-watt humans at the time.
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RatingsC4 washed out at low tide
Beyond the shouty entertainment shows elsewhere, Channel 4 went all beachcombery on Saturday night — while BBC2,s arts strand was like Bargain Hunt on acid.
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RatingsClose To The Enemy trumps prison doc
I met Stephen Poliakoff once. It’s likely I remember it more clearly than The Great Beard does.
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RatingsViewers warm to Arctic Live
Some newspapers get into hysterical froths about anything these days, so it’s not surprising there are epic warnings of some kind of icy Armageddon bearing down on us – it’s best to keep every one cowed.