All Digital Focus articles – Page 34
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RatingsGold-plated Oscars for Sky
This week’s digital focus shines the spotlight on the 83rd Academy Awards.
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RatingsJeremy Kyle versus God
On Wednesday at 2.35pm, ITV2’s Jeremy Kyle Show was watched by 570,000/7%; the same as BBC4’s When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible (570,000/3%) at 9pm on Monday.
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RatingsGlee wins out over the grim
Some people are gleeful, some are mad; some blub a lot, some can’t blub at all; some can pronounce Treme, some can’t. Some can’t believe Tottenham Hotspur beat AC Milan in Milan, but 1.3 million/5% (Sky Sports 2 Tuesday night) saw that they did.
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RatingsMadness gets a grip on Sky
I don’t know if anyone down Isleworth way has one of those signs on their desk that declares ‘You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here But It Helps’, but this week Sky Living and Sky 1 each launched new shows that more than alluded to madness.
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RatingsMore Glee as E4 tops table
Nearly 1 million people watched Bolton play Chelsea on Sky Sports 1 on Monday, proving that the football is the thing. Even if the ‘Keys’ are missing, there are no ‘Gray’ areas; apparently no one is indispensable.
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RatingsTime stands still for Hattie
This week’s digital focus centres on Glee, Hattie and Being Human.
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RatingsCollective Glee returns to E4
This week, those crazy Gleesters returned bigger than ever and were the only thing standing in the way of a sporty top four in the chart. Familiar drama proved a tonic even in a week of plenty elsewhere, while dancing continued to put its most elegant foot forward.
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RatingsA break from the big brands
With no brand extension sitting at the top of the table, it’s an opportunity for the rest. Most importantly, it means I can write words such as ‘oche’, ‘Ashes’, ‘pixelated’ and ‘Midsomer’ in a purely professional capacity.
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RatingsHowzat for a late night hit?
It’s been so cold that a whole nation’s pipes burst, but across the seven seas in an Antipodean summer an urn was magnificently retained.
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RatingsSinging soap causes a stir
Even if you were visiting from a far-flung galaxy such as NGC 5194 and you looked at the digital top 10, you’d easily discern that something was afoot this week.
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RatingsBig brands prove worth
The value of the Big Entertainment Beasts when they work, and heck are they working, is evident in the performance of BBC1 and ITV1.
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RatingsFoil war vs Foyles War
It’s almost time to ponder the roast turkey and whether there’s enough foil to go round after last year’s supply debacle - there were ugly scenes in that foil war. ITV3’s Foyle’s War, however, was a thing of beauty in its counter jungle plan.
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RatingsFuture’s here and it’s in HD
Not that long ago, Mobile TV was The Future. Everyone would soon, apparently, be carrying EastEnders or The X Factor around in their pocket and watching ‘mobisodes’.
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RatingsMisfits have the power
This week’s digital focus examines Todd Margaret, Misfits and The Walking Dead.
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RatingsGood News for Russell
Good News if you’re Russell Howard, not so much if you are interviewed in a car.
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RatingsPower doc surges ahead
There are many opaque rules about sophisticated dinner parties, but an obvious one is: ‘Don’t talk about the workings of the National Grid, despite the six crème de menthes you’ve had.’ But after Tuesday, I’d start boning up on your pylons.
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RatingsHoorah for the horror
Kurtz’s final words in The Heart Of Darkness were ‘the horror, the horror’. BBC4 was probably shouting ‘Hoorah, the horror’ as its History Of Horror movies began.
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RatingsSlow start for Sky’s Thorne
Amid the usual suspects of factual, entertainment, brand extensions and, of course, The Inbetweeners (2.2 million/11% excl+1), Sky 1 launched its latest mainstream big-scale drama.
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RatingsRyder Cup hits the Sky
Jasper Carrot once described golf on the telly as hours of televised sky. And mostly it is, but every two years it becomes a proper sport and ironically on Sky, the 2010 Ryder Cup was a cracker.