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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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I Challenged Six AI Image Bots To Generate Images For Newspaper Headlines from The Day Today. Here Are The Results (Part Two)
Continuing this occasional series, this time with added Dall-E, which no longer requires people to sit in a waitlist for months before getting access. Hooray! My prediction is that it’s absolutely going to storm it, going by how good the Outpainting feature is. That was able to turn this classic photo: Into this: Bodes pretty…
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SKY (G)ONE: A History of Sky’s Flagship Channel
[NOTE: This article originally appeared on Medium last September. I’ve rewritten some of the following to bring things up to date a little.] It’s now just over twelve months* since Sky One was filed alongside Bravo, Carlton Select and U>Direct on Wikipedia’s list of defunct UK television channels. This is a suitable opportunity to reflect…
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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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I Challenged Six AI Image Bots To Generate Images For Newspaper Headlines from The Day Today. Here Are The Results (Part One)
For the uninitiated, The Day Today was a 1994 BBC2 comedy series parodying contemporary news coverage, a programme that has remained resident in the collective consciousness of all British comedy fans ever since. A TV adaptation of Radio 4 series On The Hour, The Day Today would provide terrestrial TV debuts for Chris Morris, Armando…
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