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Splashdown! It’s The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (14 and 13)
It’s Saturday. It’s 12:15pm. The Weatherman just told us how rubbish the weather this weekend will be, so it’s time for… um. 14: Escape to the Country (Shown 4365 times, 2002-2021) Richie: “Still, I did my bit for the country.” Eddie: “What, you stayed in the town?” Richie: “Absolutely.” Now admittedly, and it might be…
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Paging Dr Clitterhouse! It’s The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (16 and 15)
“We interrupt this programme to bring you a football game.” 16: Match of the Day (Shown 4055 times, 1964-2021) Well, here’s one that was always going to appear, and one where I probably need to clarify the criteria for inclusion. In general with this list, where something had specific programme branding applied to it and…
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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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Mum’s Tape
It’s one of those moments that pretty much everyone prepares for mentally, possibly years or even decades in advance, yet hits you unexpectedly when it actually happens. Last week, that moment happened to me. My mum died. Obviously, there’s no ‘best case scenario’ for such a life event. Even your mother gallantly sacrificing herself by…
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Wake Up Mario! It’s the 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (20 and 19)
Here we go. Top twenty. Big leagues. Every programme from this point on an absolute titan of British broadcasting. Starting with… 20: Working Lunch (Shown 3296 times, 1994-2010) I’m willing to admit, this is a bit of a surprise. For a programme that would go on to become the 20th most-broadcast programme in the BBC’s…
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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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