Saturday night has its groove back
- Publication: The Sunday Times
- Date: 2024-05-05
- Author: Tim Glanfield
- Page: Culture, p. 29
- Language: English
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Reports of Saturday night television's death are greatly exaggerated. Despite fierce competition from deep-pocketed streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon, Saturday night TV has regained its mojo.
Led by the BBC's reboot of Gladiators, the corporation's most successful entertainment launch in seven years, and Lee Mack's The 1% Club, the biggest game show on TV, averaging 5.8 million viewers on ITV, the outlook for Saturday nights is now even rosier with a shiny new Disney-backed Doctor Who arriving. After a well-received hour-long special, The Church on Ruby Road, introduced the new Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) to audiences on. Christmas Day last year, a double bill of Space Babies/The Devil's Chord will deliver through space and time the first two episodes of an eight-part series. With Russell T Davies back in charge and a simultaneous global streaming release of the series on Disney+, expect one of the most high-budget and ambitious series of the BBC's flagship sci-fi show.
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