Category: TV History
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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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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (38 and 37)
Current status of More Frequent Updates: okay, a bit of a delay while I had to type in a load of listings by hand. But all worth waiting for, especially if you’ve a 1930s tennis coverage-shaped knowledge gap in your brain. 38: Wimbledon (Shown 2304 times, 1937-2021) Okay, bit of an arguable one here. If…
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The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (40-39, plus 100-41 again, especially 42)
When you draw a line in the sand, it’s too bloody tempting to kick that line away and draw a new one. In short: I simply don’t know when to just leave things alone. What happened is, when writing the entry for a programme that appeared to have set for number 36 on the list,…
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Twelve Surprising Windows 95/98 Desktop Themes for British TV Programmes
YES. Back in the dial-up days of technology, there was Windows 95 and a bit later, there was Windows 98. Groundbreaking at the time, nowadays a curious glimpse into the technological past. People used to survive using a 800×600 resolution? But one of the best things about Windows 95 (and a bit later, Windows 98)…
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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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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (50-46)
Into the fifty! And on the BBC’s actual 100th birthday too. Would’ve been nice to have wrapped up the whole list by this point, admittedly. But at least we’re in the top half of the table now. And into the next section of the list we go. 50: Racing (Shown 1741 times, 1946-2014) Here’s something…
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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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