All Digital Focus articles – Page 36
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RatingsFeasting on four courses
Come Dine With Me’s value to More 4 is amply demonstrated by four episodes of the ‘who cooks what in a house like this’ show appearing in the top 20.
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RatingsReplays build shows' totals
Bloodthirsty dancing teenagers, if they crawled out of their bedrooms, would be able to slouch proudly near the top of the multichannel chart. Glee and Being Human storm on while Got To Dance pirouettes toward its crescendo.
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FeaturesIt’s all singing and dancing
Julie Andrews famously once said that the younger generations “probably wouldn’t even know what a musical was like”, but if this week’s ratings are anything to go by, they’ve never been more in vogue.
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FeaturesHuman stays over a million
EastEnders’ strong storyline is helping BBC3 with three places in the top 10 but, hearteningly, there is also continued success with new stuff, bought and commissioned.
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FeaturesGlee garners all the glory
Humanity is hard enough to negotiate when you are human, so werewolves, ghosts and vampires must have a heck of a time. A distinctly corporeal audience has, however, warmed to their weekly agonies.
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FeaturesSpooks and size matter
While the real universe swirls about us in a magical and perplexing way, the digital universe piles in through the telly in a quite straightforward manner.
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FeaturesSky 1 making all the right moves
Bernstein and Sondheim would be proud. It’s like The Jets and the Sharks out there - our very own West Side Story; dancing on different days and maybe to different tunes, and perhaps on an off day.
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FeaturesWomen we love again
BBC4’s Women We Loved season continued to reap real rewards while ITV2 benefited from a woman that maybe we used to love. Oh and BBC3 got a clashing bonus.
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FeaturesEnid rewrites BBC4 fortunes
Lashings of ginger beer all round as Enid topped the charts this week.
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FeaturesPeter hangs on in there
After a couple of weeks away I don my crampons and head back to the top of the digital world and what do I find? Peter Andre still there for ITV2 - 1.2 million/5% can’t be wrong, it seems.
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FeaturesBroncos, ships and psychics
The variety of Britain’s digital channels is startling. This week, for example, More 4, Discovery, BBC4 and Sky 1 each in turn delivered Americans being mad, history, a bygone age and a live séance.
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RatingsTasty figures for Come Dine With Me
A giant is lurking in the digital world but it’s easy to dismiss it as a mere trifle. You would be wrong to do so, though, for the only thing trifling about it is the one served as pudding on More4.
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RatingsSpin-off puts ITV2 in lead
On Sunday, ITV2’s Xtra Factor managed to clock a whopping 1.8 million/7.4% at 9pm while Liverpool besting Manchester United brought in 1.7 million/ 17% at 12.30pm for Sky Sports 1.
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RatingsAndre's back on schedule
Katie Price has ended her run and without batting an eyelid, her exhubby moves in to the same time slot in the schedule and what happens? He wins, that’s what.
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RatingsNo extentions on Katie Price
Apologies this week if I sound a bit like a broken record as I point out that ITV2’s What Katie Did Next (1.1 million, 5%) is comfortably the highest non-brand extension, non-sports show in the multichannel world.
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RatingsFighting for attention
Violet Elizabeth Bott screamed and screamed until she was sick, but still William Brown would take no notice.
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RatingsSunday soccer scores for Sky
The top two spots in the digital chart went to Sky Sports’ Super Sunday.
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FeaturesFunny debuts still fractured
In this, The Jetsons age of multichannel, push VoD, MobileMovies and fingernail DVD (I made that one up), digital channels might seem to have the advantage when connecting with those prepared to experiment.
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RatingsMore 4’s food for thought
The nature of digital channels is that they are focused on a specific audience, and this obviously determines programme strategy. But there are times when that pesky free-thinking audience confounds things.