Category: Schedules
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Silenza: Ne Televisione (The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time, 18 and 17)
On with this list! 18: The ONE Show (Shown 3400 times, 2006-2021) Apparently, ‘ONE’ is capitalised, despite the title being all lower-case in the title sequence. What’s the deal with that? There are some TV reboots that will never, ever be a success until – against all reasonable logic – they just are. When the…
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BABY BAB-AI! It’s the 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (22 and 21)
So close we can taste that top twenty. 22: Eggheads (Shown 3049 times, 2003-2021) Hang on, what’s a Channel 5 programme doing on here? Admittedly, I really don’t know much about the series. Never watched it, and one time some work colleagues were thinking of taking part, and one suggested to me that they’d like…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (24 and 23)
I’m back from holiday. With exhaustion and a cold, which feels unfair. Anyway, back to the chart rundown that’s dragging on so long you’ve lost interest. 24: Teletubbies (Shown 2977 times, 1997-2009) Eh? Oh. It’s funny how, once a product of a genre becomes truly massive, most people completely forget what had previously seemed to…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (26 and 25)
The next episode of the rundown. And a concerted effort not to bang on about everything for so long. We’ll see. And so, resisting the temptation to pretend Does China Exist? is at number 25 as an April Fool prank, here are the next couple of programmes. 26: The Weakest Link (Shown 2923 times, 2000-2021)…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (28 and 27)
Yes, it took a long time to arrive at this next update. You can blame the ‘programme’ at number 27 on the list. Anyway, on with the next couple of entries on the list, which would have undoubtedly appeared much sooner if I’d refused to do commentary on them. 28: CountryFile (Shown 2798 times, 1988-2021)…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (30 and 29)
Into the Top Thirty we go, and a real treat in store for anyone hoping to see a picture of Ken Burras examining a Luffa. Kicking off with a programme promising to make the most out of new-fangled colour television. 30: Gardeners’ World (Shown 2736 times, 1968-2021) Borne out of Percy Thrower’s Gardening Club (526…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (32 and 31)
Ooh, almost within the Top Thirty. And this time around, it includes two examples of Peak Beeb, so that’s nice. Here goes: 32: Pointless (Shown 2656 times, 2009-2021) Yes! For the first time in ages, a programme I won’t need to do a lot of research on because I’ve probably watched most of the episodes.…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (34 and 33)
Here comes the next bit. Look out, Britain. 34: Tonight (Shown 2582 times, 1957-1992) Heeeeeeeeere’s, um, Cliff Michelmore! Yeah, so nothing to do with The Tonight Show, but rather billed (repeatedly) in the Radio Times as “a topical programme for all the family”, the initial incarnation of Tonight arrived on the screens of teatime Britain…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (36&35)
After a sport and an incredibly popular kids TV programme last time, how about something different? This time we’ve got… oh. 36: Golf (Shown 2487 times, 1938-2021) The first piece of actual golf-related TV programming that I can find came in March 1937, with Golfers in Action. A mid-point between a demonstration and an interview,…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (45-41)
Hello, everybody. Sorry it’s been a while since the last update to this list, but (amongst ploughing through forty years of Channel 4 viewing figures), this selection has required a little more research than most. Before hitting the list, a two bits of minor admin. Firstly: most people seem to be coming to the site…
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