All Digital Focus articles – Page 36

  • 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.

  • Come Dine With Me
    Ratings

    Feasting on four courses

    2010-02-18T07:00:00Z

    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.

  • Glee
    Ratings

    Replays build shows' totals

    2010-02-11T09:43:00Z

    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.

  • Glee
    Features

    It’s all singing and dancing

    2010-02-04T07:00:00Z

    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.

  • Being Human
    Features

    Human stays over a million

    2010-01-28T10:19:00Z

    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.

  • Glee
    Features

    Glee garners all the glory

    2010-01-21T11:43:00Z

    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.

  • Being Human
    Features

    Spooks and size matter

    2010-01-14T08:00:00Z

    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.

  • Got to Dance
    Features

    Sky 1 making all the right moves

    2010-01-07T08:00:00Z

    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.

  • Enid
    Features

    Women we love again

    2009-12-03T08:00:00Z

    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.

  • Enid
    Features

    Enid rewrites BBC4 fortunes

    2009-11-26T11:02:00Z

    Lashings of ginger beer all round as Enid topped the charts this week.

  • Peter Andre
    Features

    Peter hangs on in there

    2009-11-19T08:00:00Z

    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.

  • Michael Jackson: The Live Séance
    Features

    Broncos, ships and psychics

    2009-11-12T08:00:00Z

    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.

  • The X Factor: John and Edward
    Ratings

    Tasty figures for Come Dine With Me

    2009-11-05T08:00:00Z

    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.

  • X Factor logo
    Ratings

    Spin-off puts ITV2 in lead

    2009-10-29T08:00:00Z

    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.

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Ratings

    Digital shows sitcom genius

    2009-10-22T08:00:00Z

    Are we, I wonder, witnessing the return of the Great US Sitcom?

  • Peter Andre
    Ratings

    Andre's back on schedule

    2009-10-15T12:11:00Z

    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.

  • Katie Price
    Ratings

    No extentions on Katie Price

    2009-10-08T08:00:00Z

    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.