All Digital Focus articles – Page 35

  • 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.

  • cricket ball
    Ratings

    Indian cricket scores for ITV4

    2010-03-31T09:44:00Z

    Half a league, half a league onward as Alfred, Lord Tennyson described the futile Charge of the Light Brigade. No such gloom among Sky 1 and ITV4’s respective leagues in this week’s line-up; each will be, in their own way, rather chuffed.

  • Come Dine With Me
    Features

    A tale of two generations

    2010-03-25T07:00:00Z

    ITV Studios’ Come Dine With Me shows no sign of going cold turkey and deserves its own dining star for consistently giving More 4 a place at the top table.

  • True Blood
    Ratings

    PVR pumps up the numbers

    2010-03-18T09:23:00Z

    Last week, over a plate of fish and chips, myself and a chum were pondering what might be something of a new phenomenon: PVR viewing.

  • EastEnders
    Ratings

    Albert Square comes alive

    2010-02-25T07:00:00Z

    Television works miracles and in the case of poor Bradley, it was the miracle of life. The multitude flocked to BBC3 to watch him peal himself off the floor and have a bit of a chat after the live EastEnders eipsode on Friday night.