All Channel Overview articles – Page 31
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RatingsC4 hoarding beats crash
A BBC2 documentary about Facebook and Channel 4’s hoarder series feature in this week’s overview of ratings.
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RatingsGot Talent takes on all-comers
With Britain showing off its eclectic talents across an entire week on ITV1, other channels had to brace themselves.
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RatingsC4 hoards viewers
Channel 4 investigated hoarders and collected some nice numbers while the The Killing US returned and Homeland finished with a ‘give-us-another-series’ ending’.
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RatingsChannel 4's talent hidden by Beard
This week’s channel overview shines the spotlight on new Channel 4 series Hidden Talent, BBC2’s Mary Beard and Channel 5’s US crime dramas.
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RatingsNostalgia fest lifts BBC2
The thing about The 70s (BBC2, Monday, 9pm), which started with 2.6 million/10% share, is that presenter Dominic Sandbrook wasn’t there for some of it, having been born in 1974.
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RatingsAnother ship sinks on C4
This week’s channel overview considers Channel 4 doc the Sinking of the Concordia and the latest comedy from Ricky Gervais, Derek.
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RatingsNo match for Undateables
C4’s The Undateables and BBC2’s Our Food come under the spotlight in this week’s ratings overview.
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RatingsOnce Upon a Time delivers for C5
Channel 5 enjoyed fairy tale figures for its latest import.
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RatingsJack stalls on comedy road
This week, Jack Whitehall hit the road, the first Apprentice was shown the road, Hairy Bikers bowled along merrily and Four Rooms returned.
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RatingsBikers beat business guru
Hairy men overturn sharp young fixer. An unusual sentence to start proceedings I agree, but it’s true as the Hairy Bikers returned to BBC2 and improved on Alex Polizzi’s businessy ways.
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RatingsAudience cool on White Heat
The vogue for mining recent history continued this week with BBC2’s drama White Heat beginning in the 60s, as one era officially died and a less certain but more thrilling one began.
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RatingsThe best and worst of British
This week’s channel overview includes Make Bradford British, Melvyn Bragg and Homeland.
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RatingsBFGW dresses lose sparkle
Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings saw a large drop in numbers for its second episode of the series.
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RatingsC4 gets Gypsy Wedding gift
This week’s channel overview considers the return of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and new series Daddy Daycare.
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RatingsViewers miss 10 O’Clock start
The Coalition is very keen to tell us that there is no Plan B. Well, they’re wrong, there is; I saw him on Sunday’s Top Gear (4.9 million/16% including BBC HD).
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RatingsBaby boom for Channel 4
One Born Every Minute delivered another strong performance in a string of programmes that helped Channel 4 top BBC2 throughout the week.
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Cup scores but Top Gear wins
BBC2’s coverage of the League Cup Semi-Final, plus the return of those petrol fiends, gave BBC2 a decent week, while C5 closed the CBB house once more.
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RatingsStars align for BBC2
Jasper Carrot once described golf as “hours and hours of televised sky”. BBC2, typically the home of TV golf, did just that this week - but got us all interested in watching the stars.
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RatingsMystery of the lost viewers
Edwin Drood lost some of his mystery this week as BBC2 had a stab at guessing the end of the unfinished classic. Elsewhere, the channel proved that sport and baking need not be odd bedfellows.
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RatingsC4’s birthday Countdown
In November, it’ll be 30 years since Paul Coia announced Channel 4’s arrival, introducing viewers to the perennial quiz show Countdown; the celebrations began on Monday.