Sacred Wonders of Britain

Sacred Wonders of Britain
Genre	Factual
Presented by	Neil Oliver
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	3 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC Two; BBC Two HD;
Picture format	16:9 1080i
Original release	30 December 2013 –; 13 January 2014
External links
	Website

Sacred Wonders of Britain is a British factual television series that was first broadcast on BBC Two on 30 December 2013. The three-part series was presented by Neil Oliver. Computer-generated imagery was produced by Carbon Digital at MediaCityUK for the series, including the title sequence.[1]

Episode list

#	Title	Directed by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)[2]
1	"Episode 1"	Martin Kemp	30 December 2013 (2013-12-30)	2.58
2	"Episode 2"	Jonathan Barker	6 January 2014 (2014-01-06)	1.99
3	"Episode 3"	Graham Johnston	13 January 2014 (2014-01-13)	1.56

Reception

Ratings

According to overnight figures, the first episode had 2.36 million viewers with 9.79% of the audience share.[3] The second and third episodes had audience shares of 7.3%.[4][5]

Critical reception

Lucy Mangan of The Guardian said the programme was "equally unafraid to be informative and meditative, which made it rather wonderful".[6] The Daily Mirror called it a "towering spectacle of non-information" and was unconvinced by the series.[7]

gollark: osmarks.net *always* slightly had postgres.

gollark: Aha.

gollark: On a related note, does anyone know where postgresql unix sockets exist?

gollark: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urtd/bismuth/

gollark: ?tag bismuth1

References

Hartley, Sarah (22 October 2013). "'Sacred Wonders of Britain' brought to life by Carbon Digital imagery". Prolific North. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
"BARB Top 30s".
Drewett, Meg (31 December 2013). "Mrs Brown's Boys tops Monday ratings with 8.7 million on BBC One". Digital Spy. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
Eames, Tom (7 January 2014). "The 7.39 beats The Bletchley Circle in Monday drama ratings battle". Digital Spy. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
Eames, Tom (14 January 2014). "Channel 4's Benefits Street rises to 4.3m to top Monday ratings". Digital Spy. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
Mangan, Lucy (31 December 2013). "The Thirteenth Tale; Sacred Wonders of Britain – TV review". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
Simon, Jane (30 December 2013). "Sacred Wonders Of Britain offers few answers but plenty of wild guesses". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

External links

Radio Times, Sacred Wonders of Britain

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] Hartley, Sarah (22 October 2013). "'Sacred Wonders of Britain' brought to life by Carbon Digital imagery". Prolific North. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

[2] "BARB Top 30s".

[3] Drewett, Meg (31 December 2013). "Mrs Brown's Boys tops Monday ratings with 8.7 million on BBC One". Digital Spy. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

[4] Eames, Tom (7 January 2014). "The 7.39 beats The Bletchley Circle in Monday drama ratings battle". Digital Spy. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

[5] Eames, Tom (14 January 2014). "Channel 4's Benefits Street rises to 4.3m to top Monday ratings". Digital Spy. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

[6] Mangan, Lucy (31 December 2013). "The Thirteenth Tale; Sacred Wonders of Britain – TV review". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

[7] Simon, Jane (30 December 2013). "Sacred Wonders Of Britain offers few answers but plenty of wild guesses". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 18 February 2014.