All Channel Overview articles – Page 35
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RatingsBuilding and baking success
Three Fs and a B sounds like my exam results, but here it encapsulates this week’s line-up: food, football, the few and building. Channel 4 launched new shows for Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, and Kevin McCloud guided us around more slightly over-ambitious building projects.
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RatingsBB and Proms take a bow
What have Rogers and Hammerstein and Arthur Schoenberg got in common? Very little, apart from being at opposite extremes of the BBC Proms season that ended this weekend. Also ending this week was Big Brother, whose grip on the C4 schedule was finally prised off.
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RatingsSex still sells but Dive sinks
‘Big Brother moves to 8pm for Sex Shock’. Calm down dears, it’s a schedule thing. In its heyday, C4’s schedule revolved around Big Brother; now we see the first signs of ignominy as three times this week it makes way for The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal? in the ...
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RatingsAlmighty start for ‘vicarcom’
BBC2’s 10pm comedy line-up this week began with the first episode of the new vicar sitcom Rev, slotting into Monday and attracting a promising 2.2 million/10.7%.
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RatingsCompeting for attention
As the World Cup parps on in South Africa, BBC2 and Channel 4 can defend and define themselves with their own events: Wimbledon and Big Brother. BBC2 even had the additional bonus of a new series of Top Gear.
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RatingsSuccess away from football
This week Channel 4 and BBC2 saw success at the two ends of the anti-World Cup spectrum - Big Brother for younger viewers and Springwatch for the discerning older crowd.
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RatingsFamiliarity beats novelty
With a whopping week on a bigger rival what do you play against it? A familiar schedule? Or is it an opportunity to try something new?
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FeaturesBig Football wins again
This week BBC2 went all clever, with science and comedy mixing it with Bombay; Channel 4 got its chefs doing Scandinavian horror and Five demonstrated, again, the impact of Big Football.
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FeaturesWorldwide TV tour a winner
This week, Lagos, Spain, the Hebrides, India and London - featuring cooking, hospitals, football, trains, hospital trains and wildlife rangers - bestrode our screens like a tall, er, geography teacher.
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FeaturesHome cooks see off chefs
Channel 4 is enjoying success with one newer chef as well as a more familiar one, but it’s the stubborn refusal of ordinary people cooking for points in their own kitchen that continues to provide C4 with the most consistent and hardy ratings
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RatingsTiger pulls in Masters’ fans
Mark Twain once described golf as a good walk spoiled. Clearly viewers of The Masters would disagree, as the final day’s play on BBC2 attracted more than 3 million.
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FeaturesBlood, births and budgets
This week saw a new two-part drama, the launch of a chat show and three grey blokes banging on about how much more tax we are all going to have to pay between now and forever. Thanks, chaps.
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RatingsNo Flash in the pan for C4
A good week for Channel 4 with its 8pm and 9pm brands storming the citadel of the top 10, and BBC2 still showing us that even though the universe we live in is big, viewers want to know what might be out there. And FlashForward is back with more mania, ...
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FeaturesDoubling the fun with flow
What do these schedules tell us about the audience? That clever people like old furniture, preferably on the road; that travelling around the world is bettered by understanding where that world is; that gawping at other people’s houses is still fun, but nightmares in the kitchen are less so; and ...
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RatingsSheer joy for BBC2’s lambs
It’s not well known but Bob Marley was once a sheep farmer. Every day he would start his work with a song: ‘we’re lambin’, hope you like lambin’ too’. Lambing Live worked well at 8pm for BBC2, while Channel 4 will be chuffed that four brands cornered most of 9pm. ...
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RatingsBBC2 and Five score TV gold
The Winter Olympics is, ironically, gaining some traction for BBC2, with coverage of all that feisty slipping about.
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RatingsSlip-sliding up the rankings
A fortnight of Olympic Sliding About is upon us while Monty Don is suddenly ubiquitous - appearing on two channels in the week. Channel 4 had a topsy-turvy time, with Embarrassing Bodies (3.6 million/14%) being the topsy part.
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Ratings5pm is peak launch pad
Although outside peak, with its nose pressed up against the window, 5pm is still a vital part of the schedule for impact, share and boosting the 6pm slot. For commercial channels, investment at 5pm remains important but it is no longer possible to spalsh out.
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FeaturesCBB goes out with a bang
As confetti rained down on C4’s last ever Celebrity Big Brother, rumours were already sweeping the industry over whether another channel would look to pick up the rights from makers Endemol.