All Digital Focus articles – Page 29
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RatingsA good call for BBC3
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.
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RatingsEquality adds up for BBC4
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.
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RatingsBBC channels get serious
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.
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RatingsViewers rock out with BBC4
The ’80s popsters Prefab Sprout sang rather plaintively about The King Of Rock ’n’ Roll and, more mysteriously, Albuquerque.
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RatingsAudience eats up Hannibal
Since Hannibal Lecter told Agent Starling he was “having a friend for dinner”, dinner parties have never been the same.
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RatingsBig total for Small Stuff
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.
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RatingsSwedish crime hits new low
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.
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RatingsDefiance pays off for Syfy
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.
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RatingsQuiet return for Mad Men
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.
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RatingsGame on for Sky’s Thrones
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.
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RatingsITV2 whips up Plebs success
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.
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RatingsTVC goes one step beyond
My first day at the BBC coincided with charity abseiling down the side of the TV Centre by quaking would-be plummetiers.
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RatingsSpurs score for ITV4
Manicurists in London may have had a few odd visits from burly blokes on Friday morning: Tottenham fans with no nails asking for falsies.
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RatingsCrufts is top dog for C4
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.
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RatingsKing still rules on More 4
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.
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RatingsChivalry isn’t dead on BBC4
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.
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RatingsA sting in BBC3’s tale
Brian Cox studying the world’s smallest wasps under a microscope comes to mind when I squint at the table of digital channels’ output.
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RatingsMusic history charts well
BBC4 celebrated vinyl this week, but them days are gone. Or not, if ITV2’s new reunion hit is any guide.
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RatingsOld stars still draw a crowd
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.
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RatingsRepeats save Sky’s Bacon
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.