All Digital Focus articles – Page 35

  • Getting On
    Ratings

    Power doc surges ahead

    2010-11-04T07:59:00Z

    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.

  • A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss
    Ratings

    Hoorah for the horror

    2010-10-21T07:59:00Z

    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.

  • Thorne
    Ratings

    Slow start for Sky’s Thorne

    2010-10-14T07:59:00Z

    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.

  • Ryder Cup
    Ratings

    Ryder Cup hits the Sky

    2010-10-08T09:55:00Z

    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.

  • Celebrity Juice
    Ratings

    We’re thirsty for Celeb Juice

    2010-09-30T07:59:00Z

    Travel, they say, broadens the mind, but this week that received truth was challenged by the opposite notion that actually, for some, it narrows as an idiot went east.

  • The Inbetweeners
    Ratings

    Inbetweeners rise to the top

    2010-09-23T07:59:00Z

    Inbetweeners, by definition, never find themselves at the top, but E4 proved this week that boys standing awkwardly at the back of the disco can win.

  • Mad Men
    Ratings

    The opposites attract public

    2010-09-17T11:35:00Z

    This week it’s all about Eddie Waring, Don Draper, Him, Her, and The Swiss.

  • The Hunt For Britain's Sex Traffickers
    Ratings

    Week of the curate’s egg

    2010-09-10T11:40:00Z

    The phrase curate’s egg was coined to describe a very contrary egg but I bet it was never as curate-y as this week’s line-up. From Zimbabwe via touring ex-PM to Irish snooker player, and from a Hollywood blockbuster to a sobering look at sex traffickers, this week had the lot.

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    Ratings

    Xtra deja vu and bridal joy

    2010-09-10T11:36:00Z

    Each week I feel a bit like the screenwriter on the movie Godzilla 8: The Return, Again. How many ways are there to say that Xtra Factor bestrode/stalked/towered over and terrified the multitude?

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    Ratings

    Manhunt fuels thirst for news

    2010-07-15T08:00:00Z

    While the multi-million pound football festival in South Africa was coming to an end this week, a more homespun tragedy was unfolding in the north of England. Sky and BBC news channels saw large audiences on Friday as the week-long hunt for Raoul Moat ended.

  • family guy
    Ratings

    It’s a family affair for BBC3

    2010-07-08T07:00:00Z

    A hapless dad, a talking dog and an evil genius baby took top slot this week as Family Guy scored 1.2 million/6% for BBC3 on Sunday night, beating off the challenge of ITV2’s only slightly less cartoonish Peter Andre: The Next Chapter’s 1.1 million/5%.

  • Justified
    Ratings

    Cup runneth over to HD

    2010-07-01T07:00:00Z

    Share to all the satellite channels during major events on terrestrial TV usually declines, reversing the perpetual upward trend.

  • Pirates Of The Caribbean
    Ratings

    Pirates find TV treasure

    2010-06-24T07:00:00Z

    World Cup bobbing and weaving can be seen in the digital world as broadcasters strive for alternative audiences. BBC3, for instance, used Pirates Of The Caribbean: At The World’s End, twice, to deflect football on two different channels.

  • Going Postal
    Ratings

    Repeats make longer game

    2010-06-10T07:00:00Z

    EastEnders, clobbered this week by ITV1’s BGT, was found by much of its missing audience via the BBC3 catch-up; a manner of viewing now completely familiar and, along with +1 channels and PVRs, forcing the ratings ‘winners and losers’ debate into a longer game.

  • Spartacus: Blood and Sand
    Features

    From strikers to tenors

    2010-06-03T07:00:00Z

    Prior to 1990, if anyone had said that opera and football would be synonymous they’d have been thought barking mad.

  • Glee
    Features

    Familiar feel at the summit

    2010-05-06T15:42:00Z

    The usual suspects sit atop the table - talent, football and, of course, Glee. Elsewhere, detectives continue to show their worth, while screaming the answer might have had a rather echoing quality.

  • Warehouse 13
    Features

    Debates keep public hooked

    2010-04-29T07:00:00Z

    Sky News and BBC News, both spending their time scrapping for the prettiest girl in the playground, have probably never noticed plucky little Sky 3.

  • EastEnders
    Features

    The power of digital TV

    2010-04-22T07:00:00Z

    This week, BBC3 and ITV2 delivered the four tenants of digital TV viewing: catch up, repeat of a classic, the discovery of a new thing and brand extension (the fifth, er, of the four is sport). BBC3 had the first three, ITV2 the fourth. Between them, they delivered five of ...

  • The Pacific
    Ratings

    The Pacific on target for Sky

    2010-04-15T07:00:00Z

    Sky Movie Premiere’s launch of the big-budget series The Pacific fought off all multichannel rivals on its launch.

  • Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey
    Features

    Katie clobbers Lindsay next

    2010-04-08T10:09:00Z

    Lindsay Lohan, Katie P, a man, his canoe and Courtney Cox: sounds like the cast of some earnest avant garde theatre workshop production or other entitled ‘Mortality’. But actually, it’s a week in digital telly.