Tag: Lovely lovely data
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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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The Mega-Meldrew Point (Updated 9 Jan)
Happy New Year! Now, who wants to feel old? You may have heard of a Twitter account called Meldrew Point. If you haven’t, the account’s bio sums it up nice and succinctly: “to reach Meldrew Point, you must be 19,537 days old: the same age as Richard Wilson when episode 1 of One Foot In…
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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 (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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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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20×4: Marking Twenty Years of BBC Four
Hi all, still sorting out some refinements of the 100 Most-Shown BBC Programmes Ever. In short, a total of 25,371 programmes have now been added to the mix (previously buried within other listings such as 90s/00s CBBC – where individual shows were listed in one big programme description on Genome – plus listings from the…
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