All Digital Focus articles – Page 28

  • Midsomer Murders
    Ratings

    No mystery to ITV3 success

    2013-09-27T15:37:00Z

    “It’s a mystery,” Toyah Wilcox once squeaked, leaping about the stage. Some years on from that postpunk anthem, she remains correct in her observation; except it’s a murder mystery, and they love it.

  • Sound of Cinema
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    BBC4 living la dolce vita

    2013-09-19T17:32:00Z

    BBC4’s championing of the subtitled drama has been famously led by the dourly compelling ‘Scandi Noir’.

  • Bad Education
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    Jack’s back to buoy BBC3

    2013-09-13T11:11:00Z

    I sometimes think most of my teachers were like Jack Whitehall in BBC3’s Bad Education.

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    1.2m lap up Lemon’s Juice

    2013-09-05T15:23:00Z

    The Edinburgh Festival ended this week, with BBC3 celebrating the up and coming, while a juice and two Xtras returned to ITV2.

  • don_t_tell_the_bride
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    Big day joy for BBC3’s Brides

    2013-08-30T10:08:00Z

    Any bride would surely be elated with a half-time ceremony at Stoke City FC in front of 28,000 strangers.

  • Tales_from_the_royal_bedcha
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    Royals rule on BBC4

    2013-08-15T12:34:00Z

    There are an awful lot of kings and queens about at the moment and BBC4 joined in with its tales of the royal boudoir and the equally rambunctious goings-on of the Anglo Saxons and their falsely accused cake burner King Alfred.

  • only_connect
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    Cartoons are a top draw

    2013-08-09T09:22:00Z

    Displayed in the National Gallery is the Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo someone.

  • the_cafe_a
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    Baby joy for digital news

    2013-08-02T12:15:00Z

    After naming the new royal urchin George Alexander Louis, I wondered if there might be a ‘By George, it’s a GAL’ headline.

  • Burton_and_Taylor
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    Star power wins for BBC4

    2013-08-02T12:15:00Z

    BBC4 proved old stars never lose it as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor delivered nicely for the channel this week.

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    The Force is with ITV

    2013-07-26T09:58:00Z

    In the ancient battle of the sexes, it was refreshing to see that when it comes to football, men and women are equal in their ineptitude, as England got booted out of the Women’s Euro tournament.

  • Dynamo
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    Dynamo's magic touch

    2013-07-22T09:59:00Z

    Last year, he smashed ratings records; this year, the magic wasn’t quite there.

  • The Ashes
    Ratings

    BBC4 bowls them over

    2013-07-19T17:25:00Z

    As The Ashes kicked off, BBC4 took a sideways look back at cricket, airing Aussie two-part factual drama Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War.

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    Skins takes a bow for E4

    2013-07-11T08:30:00Z

    Without a doubt, the scariest villain of all time is the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. BBC4 visited the location for his nefarious ne’er-do-well’s crimes this week and I hid behind a cushion. Elsewhere, Skins returned for a final fling and the top of the table revealed a ...

  • Don_t_Call_Me_Crazy
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    Cracking show for egg doc

    2013-07-04T16:30:00Z

    After declaring himself the egg man, John Lennon sang ‘goo goo g’joob’ – the noise the eggs made when, as a nipper, I spilled the contents of our weekly shopping trolley into the road.

  • Rugby
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    Sport is the winner

    2013-06-28T15:50:00Z

    Someone said to me recently that 2013 was a non-sport year, which I found odd, because I’ve been watching a lot of it.

  • The Call Centre
    Ratings

    BBC3 hits back of the net

    2013-06-28T15:49:00Z

    I rang a call centre the other day. I was bamboozled into the wrong department by apparently not having enough choices to select, which, after pressing six on the third menu surprised me a bit.

  • The Call Centre
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    A good call for BBC3

    2013-06-14T10:47:00Z

    We’re on a new digital journey, with a new table breaking out those digital shows unconnected to PSB operators. But where they have breakout hits, they’ll still appear here; think of this as the definitive digital mirror to our top 100.

  • Up The Women
    Ratings

    Equality adds up for BBC4

    2013-06-06T14:07:00Z

    A century after the most dramatic moment in the campaign for women’s suffrage at the 1913 Derby, BBC4 launched its own comedic tribute to the movement.

  • The Somme
    Ratings

    BBC channels get serious

    2013-05-30T13:16:00Z

    With BBC2 delivering huge numbers in drama, the BBC’s digital channels decided that 9pm Monday was the time to serve up some serious factual shows.

  • Rock
    Ratings

    Viewers rock out with BBC4

    2013-05-24T17:03:00Z

    The ’80s popsters Prefab Sprout sang rather plaintively about The King Of Rock ’n’ Roll and, more mysteriously, Albuquerque.