Category: Ratings
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Four)
Onto the last leg of our list. Which, for the record, doesn’t include The Last Leg. Lots of big programmes we’ve not seen yet on the list, and with only a few places remaining there’s not enough room for all of them. I’m starting to think we won’t see Murun Buchstansangur on this list at…
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Three)
Into the top half we tumble. But first, here’s a rundown of the list so far: Right, into that top twenty-one. Dudes. 21: BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)(21:00 Sunday 11 Apr 1993, 7.29m viewers) To be fair, any film that includes George “Seven Words” Carlin, Tony “Wolfie Smith’s Dad-in-Law After Peter Vaughan” Steedman and…
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Two)
More Four. Here’s the next tranche, starting with two entries at joint-30th. =31: GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (1987)(21:00 Sunday 25 Apr 1993, 6.75m viewers) Kicking off a Robin Williams season on Four, this well-received comedy drama about a boisterous US Forces Jock who eschews the anodyne in favour of the raucous, much to the delight of…
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part One)
Yes, I know I’m only just over halfway through the list of the 100 Most-Shown Programmes On The BBC, but Channel Four is forty years old on Wednesday 2 November, and that’s an anniversary well worth marking. So, here we go with another ill-considered datagasm. Like in an instalment of the Terminator franchise directed by…
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SKY (G)ONE: A History of Sky’s Flagship Channel
[NOTE: This article originally appeared on Medium last September. I’ve rewritten some of the following to bring things up to date a little.] It’s now just over twelve months* since Sky One was filed alongside Bravo, Carlton Select and U>Direct on Wikipedia’s list of defunct UK television channels. This is a suitable opportunity to reflect…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (70-66)
Welcome back, everybody. Exciting fact! When I started writing this update, three of the five entries were for completely different programmes. It’s only after writing them that, for various reasons, they’ll actually be appearing higher up the list. Still, at least that’ll save me some time later, eh? Before kicking off the next update, reader…
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20×4: Marking Twenty Years of BBC Four
Hi all, still sorting out some refinements of the 100 Most-Shown BBC Programmes Ever. In short, a total of 25,371 programmes have now been added to the mix (previously buried within other listings such as 90s/00s CBBC – where individual shows were listed in one big programme description on Genome – plus listings from the…
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