All Digital Focus articles – Page 31
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RatingsTennis serves up an ITV4 hit
ITV4 recently added the French Open Tennis to its sporting roster and the fortnight of Parisian grunting has delivered.
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RatingsRevenge is sweet for E4
Revenge is allegedly a meal best served cold, and the lead character in E4’s latest import gobbles it up with relish. Elsewhere, BBC4 celebrated punk, BBC3 plugged in the Electric and Challenge TV’sBlockbusters had a P and other letters.
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RatingsIt’s all in the name
Common wisdom generally dictates a programme title should be short, preferably with the word ‘extreme’ at the beginning to ensure it arrests attention on the EPG.
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RatingsUS threatens cultural coup
It comes to something when Chelsea and Essex represent the UK’s cultural bulwarks, but heroically they were in the vanguard this week against a US monopoly of the top digital programmes.
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RatingsViewers tune in for history
These days, it is alarmingly easy to feel like some kind of ante-diluvian figure merely by having a laptop that’s three years old. BBC4 could have been referring to 2010 with its 2,000-year-old computer.
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Ratings5 USA feels Justified
5USA will be chuffed with its Justified, while Russell is back, The Bridge rumbles on and Celebrity Juice squirts its last - for now.
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RatingsCashing in on 2 Broke Girls
I’d like to think that one of the characters in The Big Bang Theory would be able to work out the correct number of times to show a promo for a new series.
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RatingsSelf and the self-publicists
Without a synapse or two snapping, it’s hard to imagine Will Self wandering in to Essex’s jaunty TV world, but it would be a sight to behold. Instead we have to content ourselves with them both being represented on TV in the same week.
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RatingsAd men miss their target
Over the years, Oxford saw more than its fair share of murders, but spare a thought for Sicily; it’s just as bad there, as BBC4 points out, with subtitles. Elsewhere, the dragons and dungeons in made-up worlds returned, apparently infinitely more palatable than advertising execs.
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RatingsLow-key start for Mad Men
Acclaimed US drama launches on Sky Atlantic with a fraction of its BBC4 figures
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RatingsA nice Touch for Sky 1
“Don’t touch that” was something I was told a lot as a child, but I didn’t listen (as the time I put my finger in a socket at college proved). Sky 1 launched a Touch of its own this week, Yesterday celebrated the jet set, while BBC3 turned sportsmen into ...
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FeaturesGently does it for BBC4’s Dirk
As the Large Hadron Collider gears up its latest search for the Higgs Bosun, maybe it can also look out for whatever it was that made Douglas Adams’ brain. His Dirk Gently stories do make you wonder if it was created somewhere other than here.
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RatingsBowled over by a BBC4 doc
As BBC4 approached its tenth birthday, it gave us a place to think in an epically brilliant film on what West Indies cricket meant beyond mere sport.
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RatingsITV2 can’t do without Kyle
If ITV2 considers Celebrity Juice and The Only Way is Essex to be brand-defining, then the Jeremy Kyle Show might be the series it can’t ever do without.
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RatingsThe force is with Stella
Breaking news from this week’s Stella; it turns out Darth Vader isn’t Luke’s father after all; rather, he’s a Welsh bloke called Rob.
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RatingsITV2’s Juices really flowing
In 2008, Keith Lemon’s Celebrity Juice debuted with a not spiffing 279,000/1.6% and nowhere near the terrestrials.
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RatingsSunday night gets spooky
Apparently Sunday nights aren’t gloomy enough, what with work looming, but now the supernatural have moved in, making it spooky as well. Elsewhere, Spartacus is vengeful, Borgen exits and the Kiwis reinvent Odin.
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RatingsDocs doc and Essex appeal
What is it about Essex, junior doctors, detectives and dancing? Who knows, but this week they made their presence felt.
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Ratings5* rating for Celebrity BB
This week some Daves in suits launched, BBC4 went to France, the sweaty Mad Dogs returned and 5* got a big boost from the switchover from the live Big Brother house.