All Channel Overview articles – Page 27
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RatingsLambs spring into top 10
In fields around the land this week, green visors were delivered, baize tables were set up and cards dealt out, and once again the lambs had to explain, hoofs on hips, that they gambol.
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RatingsBabies deliver on BBC2 & C4
This week, BBC2 launched a sort of farming version of Call The Midwife, with more bleating, less screaming and a fear of mint sauce.
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RatingsLap of honour for Channel 4
BBC2’s weekly primetime share was almost 8%, helped enormously by Top Gear: Burma Special: 6.1 million/23% share is a huge audience, more than twice that of the next show in the table, and it would be foolish to argue against it.
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RatingsMary cooks up BBC2 success
In the summer of 1914, moustaches and frock coats roamed the corridors of power and decided that it was time for war.
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RatingsHastings wins battle of docs
Appositely, as sabres rattle in Eastern Europe, BBC2 played two programmes on the outbreak of the First World War.
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RatingsThe Taste falls to new low
The sliding-about-a-lot has ended and GB won four medals, the best return since 1924; the year Mallory and Irving were lost trying to ascend Everest for the first time.
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RatingsOlympics in winning form
The nation is gripped by the sliding about of athletes, often in lycra and occasionally with brooms.
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RatingsBBC2 skates ahead of ITV
If ever there was a right time to announce the relinquishing of the BBC2 Quill of Control, it would be after news like this: BBC2’s Saturday and Sunday combined all-time share (12%) beat ITV’s (9.8%).
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RatingsTop Gear races to the summit
This week, Top Gear returned to show Benefits Street who’s boss.
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RatingsSeasonal hits for BBC and C4
The only winter watching I want to do is the sort that involves waving it off at a bus stop, followed by anxious glances down the road searching for the garlanded spring bus.
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RatingsBun fight fails Benefits test
Last year, there was a Twitter-based hoo-ha about one of the Bake-Off finalists. It was largely ludicrous, if unpleasant for the baker involved, but creator Love Productions probably felt that as controversies go, it was manageable.
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RatingsBenefits Street claims top spot
Gazing at the night sky seeing stars that blew up long ago puts missing the council’s Christmas tree collection day into perspective.
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RatingsTop Gear stars battle it out
You have barely had time to forget the embarrassment of welcoming in the new year by singing into a hairbrush, or adjust to a new calendar, or manhandle into the garden the huge tree that seemed such a good idea to bring indoors three weeks ago, than a whole bunch ...
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RatingsMixed fortunes for C4
There were mixed fortunes for Channel 4 as Heston returned to nearly 2 million while Liberty and the British Comedy Awards struggled.
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RatingsBBC2 rises to the Challenge
Some years ago, while snowbound at a friend’s house in Switzerland, we played Trivial Pursuit.
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RatingsWild Burma tames C4 Cats
It remains difficult for me to see a polystyrene cup without wanting to pick it up, place it between my teeth and launch into “sitting at my piano the other day”, followed by throwing an imaginary ball into a paper bag.
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RatingsThe Choir hits the right note
Many moons ago, I spent a summer ensconced in Birmingham City Library researching a history of … well, let’s just say Victorian Public Health capital expenditure in case you’re reading this early in the morning.
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RatingsC4 Masters a total turn-off
It’s lucky that Mr and Mrs Masters weren’t called Mr and Mrs Terry Fide; Terry Fide Of Sex would have been much less enticing a prospect than Masters Of Sex.
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RatingsBBC’s seasonal outlook a hit
You can tell autumn’s here because the council’s leaf blowers are out scarring the air with their small loud motors, which is in no way annoying.
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RatingsBBC’s seasonal outlook a hit
You can tell autumn’s here because the council’s leaf blowers are out scarring the air with their small loud motors, which is in no way annoying.