Category: Schedules
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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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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (55-51)
So close to the half-century. And it only took me re-extracting ten years’ worth of data to correct a piddling technicality for one of the entries. But more of that later. On we go! 55: Animal Park (Shown 1639 times, 2000-2021) If you want an animal-based programme that seems as unstoppable as a rhino-led restaging…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (60-56)
Closing in on the half-century. Ready for another look at five formidable formats, regularly interrupted by ill-considered meanders down distraction avenue? Hopefully the answer is yes, else you’re in the wrong place. 60: Tomorrow’s World (Shown 1511 times, 1965-2003) As the trope has it, a series inextricably linked to a nation of pop kids who…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (65-61)
Here’s the next bit. I appreciate it’s been a while. Back when the last update came out, we had a different Prime Minister, a different Monarch. and a different Chelsea manager. So, that’s enough pre-ambling, on with the list. And it only took one Friday night spent looking through 1920s radio listings to see which…
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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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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (100-71 again, sort of)
Well, damn. As you may well be aware, I recently embarked on a foolhardy quest to tot up the hundred programmes shown most often on BBCs One, Two and Television Service since it launched in 1936. Taking data from the BBC’s Genome Project (now known as the BBC Programme Index), I scoured through 855,361 individual…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (75-71)
As Ringo Starr famously said, sorry for the lateness of my reply. This is what happens when you spot a suspiciously quiet spell in a broadcast history of a long-running series, look into it and discover it spent two years billed as “Weather, followed by [PROGRAMME NAME]”, meaning I have to recalculate a load of…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (80-76)
The ill-advised journey through the papery soup of BBC scheduling history continues, your intrepid reporter wading on with increasingly papier-mâchéd legs to bring you the following five dispatches from television history. Quite a long one, given the sheer bloody amount of history for some of them.
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