All Digital Focus articles – Page 29

  • Hannibal
    Ratings

    Audience eats up Hannibal

    2013-05-17T16:54:00Z

    Since Hannibal Lecter told Agent Starling he was “having a friend for dinner”, dinner parties have never been the same.

  • Greggs
    Ratings

    Big total for Small Stuff

    2013-05-10T15:06:00Z

    One website offering puns of the day goes back to 1999, when apparently April’s best one-liner was about a chicken being poultry in motion.

  • Arne Dahl
    Ratings

    Swedish crime hits new low

    2013-05-03T11:58:00Z

    Not The Nine O’Clock news once famously suggested that Roald Dahl’s mother couldn’t spell Ronald; it seems she couldn’t spell Arnie either, as BBC4’s latest member of its Scandinavian Saturday Night Club continued.

  • defiance
    Ratings

    Defiance pays off for Syfy

    2013-04-26T12:28:00Z

    This week, Syfy found that in a post-apocalyptic world, the appliance of defiance brings riches, as the channel’s newest import landed with a thump.

  • Mad_Men
    Ratings

    Quiet return for Mad Men

    2013-04-19T17:24:00Z

    It was a bit like being taken around a surrealist exhibition with a suspiciously strong cocktail in hand when Mad Men returned with a feature-length episode.

  • Game Of Thrones
    Ratings

    Game on for Sky’s Thrones

    2013-04-12T17:56:00Z

    Once at a wedding in Copenhagen, a faultlessly polite Dane asked my friend what we might do in Denmark. Go to Malmo, replied my friend; Malmo is of course in Sweden.

  • Plebs
    Ratings

    ITV2 whips up Plebs success

    2013-04-05T17:18:00Z

    Are the ex-chief whip and ITV2 in cahoots? With brilliant, enviable timing, the former government enforcer resurrected the issue of Plebgate just as the broadcaster launched its new show, Plebs. Worth thousands of on-air promos, that.

  • BBC TV Centre
    Ratings

    TVC goes one step beyond

    2013-03-28T11:42:00Z

    My first day at the BBC coincided with charity abseiling down the side of the TV Centre by quaking would-be plummetiers.

  • Football
    Ratings

    Spurs score for ITV4

    2013-03-22T15:23:00Z

    Manicurists in London may have had a few odd visits from burly blokes on Friday morning: Tottenham fans with no nails asking for falsies.

  • Crufts
    Ratings

    Crufts is top dog for C4

    2013-03-15T16:03:00Z

    My childhood companion was a dog called Dougal. On long postschool walks, one of us would always walk through the muddy puddle, and sometimes it was him. We Brits love our dogs, as More 4 finds out with each passing year.

  • Celebrity Juice
    Ratings

    King still rules on More 4

    2013-03-08T11:00:00Z

    I promised I wouldn’t mention Richard III again, but blow me if More 4 hasn’t made that difficult with more on the car park king.

  • Chivalry And Betrayal
    Ratings

    Chivalry isn’t dead on BBC4

    2013-03-01T15:38:00Z

    Every day there’s treachery, manoeuvring and a need to do anything to survive. But enough of TV; it seems medieval England was also a ruthless place.

  • Junior Doctors
    Ratings

    A sting in BBC3’s tale

    2013-02-22T17:44:00Z

    Brian Cox studying the world’s smallest wasps under a microscope comes to mind when I squint at the table of digital channels’ output.

  • Danny Baker
    Ratings

    Music history charts well

    2013-02-15T17:33:00Z

    BBC4 celebrated vinyl this week, but them days are gone. Or not, if ITV2’s new reunion hit is any guide.

  • The Big Reunion
    Ratings

    Old stars still draw a crowd

    2013-02-08T15:04:00Z

    Pop music used to be ephemeral, but no longer. For while Liberty X might be more Liberty Why? these days, they can still draw a crowd, as ITV2 found out.

  • Kevin Bacon
    Ratings

    Repeats save Sky’s Bacon

    2013-02-04T11:54:00Z

    Fresh from demanding that we be ubiquitous with our next phone choice, Kevin Bacon pops up as a washed-up serial-killer hunter; Sky Atlantic will be pleased.

  • My Mad Fat Diary
    Ratings

    Decent entry for E4’s Diary

    2013-01-25T09:20:00Z

    Teenage diaries are full of youthful woe; grown-ups’ tend to be used as reminders to put the bins out.

  • The New Normal
    Ratings

    Normal start buoys E4

    2013-01-17T17:38:00Z

    Whatever ‘normal’ is, E4 will have liked its new version of it, while ITV2’s genuine reaction to repeats will be a grin.

  • Borgen
    Ratings

    Sky Sports hits bullseye

    2013-01-11T14:42:00Z

    Danes first bothered us when they had horns and beards; their most recent invasion involves sparse thrillers, a brainy female lead, some murdering and, in Borgen at least, another beard.

  • killing
    Ratings

    E4 top with a bigger Bang

    2012-11-23T09:13:00Z

    For one last hurrah, Ms Lund’s pullies are back with some Danish murdering. Meanwhile, one of the biggest shows in the US displayed its credentials here, while in this era of ‘Big History’, there’s more about where on earth we all came from.