All Channel Overview articles – Page 36
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FeaturesOpeners angle into position
If a reflective farmer fishing for catfish found himself asking how nature and the written word shaped humanity, what you might eat on an Indian train and how bonkers are Britons today, she could have done worse than watch the new series launched this week.
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FeaturesSlumming it a big hit for C4
“Must have been keen on her; took her to see India… at The Oval,” as The Major once explained to Basil Fawlty. Channel 4 must be keen on us as they brought India to our tellies and will have been pleased with the results.
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FeaturesC4 blasts into life with CBB
Channel 4 can be forgiven if it feels a bit of motion sickness; on Christmas Day it was becalmed in the doldrums with a very titchy 1.7% peaktime share; then on Sunday, all steely eyed, it clambered aboard HMS ‘Take A Look At This’ and scored 13.8%.
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FeaturesC4 proves life begins at 40
This week BBC2 had art, history and caravans attached to blimps in Top Gear; C4, meanwhile, declared that life begins at 60 and, as if to prove the point, began stripping The Queen on Sunday.
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FeaturesTrips to other dimensions
This week Channel 4, Five and BBC2 operated in different dimensions.
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FeaturesBBC2 changes into top gear
BBC2’s 7pm-10.30pm peaktime share of 8% was way ahead of Channel 4’s 5.1% and Five’s 3.9%. And with ITV1 in hoovering-up mode all week, C4 and Five will have felt the heat in impacts as well as viewing.
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FeaturesStudents and sequins shine
Channel 4 launched two new series at 9pm while Mondays continue with new single titles.
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RatingsBBC2 amuses with old toys
The top show of the week was James May’s Toy Stories, scoring 3.5 million/15% on Tuesday at 8pm, and it ought to come as no surprise that it was packed full of men.
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RatingsBBC2 cooks up some ratings
I confess that my idea of cooking is reading the bottom of the box and leaving its contents in the oven for 20 minutes (I do take it out of the box - I am not a philistine).
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RatingsBBC2 crosses TV time zones
BBC2 will have been pleased with successes pre-9pm - a domain dominated by soaps. Plus it extended bits across 9pm; so much the better.
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RatingsBBC2 comedy struggles on
It isn’t very often that my poor benighted hometown gets a cheery mention, but BBC2 has been merrily trying to alter that.
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RatingsBBC2 traveller beats C4 Tour
BBC2 launched a new travelogue to compete with Channel 4’s Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour on Sunday, but otherwise much of the week was in established patterns.
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RatingsBBC2 cooks up a master plan
These darkening evenings leave plenty of time for the mind to wander, and you find yourself wondering why MasterChef: The Professionals was on at some unusual times this week.
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FeaturesRatings: Money-taking and making
BBC2 and Channel 4 bequeathed us a contrasting week of riveting end-of-the-world stuff and spooky predictions - somewhat summing up the 21st century thus far.
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RatingsDragons lead way forward
All things must come to an end and Big Brother has officially passed on. There may be rueful grins if that final series, stops fully out, pulls in the numbers of yore. Farewell BB; we really knew ye.
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FeaturesWeek telling a tale of yore
A tale of yore I think. The location (location, location) was the coast and it was here that I found the dragons’ den (lair, surely?).
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FeaturesNot waging a weekend war
Generally BBC2, C4 and Five don’t go too bonkers at the weekends, what with the entertainment behemoths taking lumps out of each other on ITV1 and BBC1 for much of the time.
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FeaturesBB maintains ratings draw
It may be a long way off its glory day figures of old, but despite negative press coverage, Big Brother has proved that it has not run out of steam just yet, comfortably drawing audiences of 2 million every day of the week for C4.