Category: Top 100
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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 (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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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (85-81)
Another five-pack of fun for children of all ages. Especially with the first programme on the list. 85: ChuckleVision (Shown 1055 times, 1987-2012) Here’s an entry that took quite a lot of digging to get some accurate numbers on. But, given the importance and gravitas of the programme in question, I’m sure you’ll agree it…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (90-86)
Here are the next five entries from the rundown of Auntie’s All-Time Favourites. As ever, the usual things apply: everything is accurate to the best of my knowledge, but with over 800,000 broadcasts to sift through, I can’t guarantee some individual episodes may have slipped through my datanet. Also, and you’ll never have guessed this,…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (95-91)
In which an instantly successful programme takes a sixteen-year run-up to a second series, and a crime drama becomes a BBC staple due to people not liking football enough. Firstly, huge thanks to everyone who’d shared word of this project on Twitter. Any time I’ve previously embarked any large data-based article, it always came with…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (100-96)
Happy birthday, Auntie. As you may have noticed this year - or at least during the moments of it where you forget about the collapse of society, the evaporation of peace in Europe and basically everything being on fire – the BBC is (quite modestly) marking a hundred years of broadcasting to the nation. Since…
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