Simon Hoggart

Call of the wild

One intriguing statistic from last year’s television went almost unnoticed.

issue 02 January 2010

One intriguing statistic from last year’s television went almost unnoticed.

One intriguing statistic from last year’s television went almost unnoticed. In October, an edition of Jonathan Ross’s 9 p.m. chat show on BBC1 had fewer viewers than Autumnwatch. Even though Barbra Streisand was his main guest, the six-million-pound man was defeated by barnacle geese and rutting stags on the Isle of Rum.

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