All Digital Focus articles – Page 32
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RatingsAudience hail BBC4’s Kings
At school, mediaeval kings always seemed pretty two-dimensional to me, largely because that was how they were painted: flat but faintly startled. It turns out that maybe they were more rounded and colourful than that.
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RatingsBBC4 viewers enjoy a Danish
It used to be that Danish only meant sizzling bacon but now it’s a byword for gripping drama on BBC4.
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EastEnders success fails to translate to BBC3
Christmas Day was business as usual for BBC3’s EastEnders repeat, writes Stephen Price
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RatingsScousewives cleans up
There’s a thin line between genius and madness, as Storyville depicted. E4’s Desperate Scousewives got off to a good start, while ITV2 is feeling an Xtra pinch.
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RatingsCafé serves up a treat for Sky
The digital channel catch-up service came into its own again as viewers negotiated their way around pesky scheduling. Elsewhere, The Killing II rumbled on and Sky Atlantic invited us to a diabolical dinner.
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RatingsDouble Killing boosts BBC2
The Killing returned with much hullabaloo, mostly about knitware; Ross Kemp was back in action; this ‘not telling the bride’ business is catching on, while those stuck celebrities remain competitive.
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RatingsCelebrity Juice tops US rivals
This week, there was the first sight of a new plan for Really, while FX delivered an American Horror Story.
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RatingsStrong week for stalwarts
There’s a great deal of strength piling on strength currently. Hollyoaks, that stalwart of Channel 4 and E4, has picked up the mantle post-Big Brother and is posting some big audiences; An Idiot Abroad is now a bona fide hit; and Him And Her has returned bigger than before.
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RatingsWhen Misfits met TOWIE
This week, misfits played against misfits and the results were interesting, Celebrity Juice squirted on with another top performance and Hollyoaks did E4 proud.
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RatingsGenius choice for Sky’s Idiot
An Idiot Abroad had 1.1 million/4% share on Sky 1 on Friday at 9pm – and a title that made a funny tabloid headline for Wayne Rooney’s sending off in England’s recent game.
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Potty figures for BBC4
BBC4’s series on ceramics charts the glorious rise and precipitous fall of the once glorious Stoke- On-Trent and one of the UK’s greatest industries.
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RatingsNo escaping spray tan fans
Imagine if Made In Chelsea booked the same venue as The Only Way Is Essex on the same night. The room would be hoovered into a vortex of intimate apparel and orange spray tan.
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RatingsA bright start for The Fades
Two new imports from Sky Living this week had young women in bother as their theme: sibling identity theft on the one hand and witchy goings-on in a small town on the other. BBC3 helped the freaking-out theme with its new series The Fades.
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RatingsITV2 smothers competition
ITV2 could be forgiven if it cut out this week’s list and nailed it to the wall. With TOWIE topping out and the The X Factor US outstripping the home-grown extension, only football and an idiot got in the way.
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RatingsTorres stinker puts Sky top
In 1967, the Torrey Canyon, an oceangoing tanker laden with oil, began sinking off the coast of Cornwall. Chelsea striker Fernando Torres almost shares its name and must have felt just like that helpless ship as he missed the ‘Sitter of The Aeon’ against Man United on Sunday, watched by ...
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RatingsBBC4’s Day to celebrate
This week, BBC4’s tribute to Doris Day’s surprisingly tumultuous life reaped rewards, Celebrity Juice is back and the bride is once again kept in the dark.
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RatingsWindows of opportunity
For those of you who thought a window was simply a device to see out of, and protect you from the summer gales, this week might have been a mysterious one; for what could a transfer window be?
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RatingsBBC4 living la dolce vita
Sky 1 has taken advantage of the relatively quiet summer months with some early launches, and the third one landed this week. BBC4 found la dolce vita with a return trip down the Italian Peninsula, while ITV3 demonstrated where drama repeats actually work.
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RatingsNation tunes in to news channels
If you were a Martian landing on Earth and took a look at the Digital Networks Top Programmes list (because let’s face it, you would) you might think we were all news junkies. And if our visitor saw The Borgias too, he/she might also wonder what history narrative we thought ...
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RatingsTrollied debut is wobble-free
The summer, for all its mad weirdness, can be a place to deliver audiences - as Sky 1 discovered when Trollied rolled in very much unlike a supermarket trolly: in a straight line and avoiding ploughing into the baked bean display.