All Digital Focus articles – Page 30
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RatingsJuice refreshes ITV2 audience
Whatever the chief ingredient of the juice of celebrities might be, it’s potent stuff, as ITV2’s comedy panel show breezes inexorably onwards.
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RatingsBGT sees off Eurovision
In Blackadder III, Prince George declared himself as thick as a whale omelette, but even he’d have known a hit when one clouted him.
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RatingsGeorgians boost BBC4
Who would have thought those bewigged Georgians would have such an impact?
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RatingsMushroom doc is magic
This week, in its studious fashion, BBC4 tapped into the magic world of fungi. Elsewhere, ITV2 spawned a new panel show, while E4 banged on with its geeks.
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RatingsBees create a buzz for BBC4
Winnie the Pooh, not one of literature’s great thinkers, was nonetheless prepared to gamble everything if honey was involved, as illustrated by the whole bees/tree/balloon fiasco of legend.
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RatingsBBC4 finds TV gold in Eden
In an unlikely contest this week, it turned out that suburban gardens can hold their own in a stand-off with a backpacked Olympic bronze medallist and porn.
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RatingsE4 is back with a Bang
It’s likely that E4 whirled a jig of delight when The Big Bang Theory was awarded three more seasons.
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RatingsMore 4 cruises with canal trip
As nippers, we didn’t think twice about playing down railway embankments, in rivers and alongside canals.
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RatingsBBC3 prison doc doubles
At my school, the careers advice service ranked in the education hierarchy somewhere below the upkeep of general sanitation.
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RatingsGreat result for More 4
Football’s a regular top draw in multichannel and this week was no exception, with the clash between Manchester United and Liverpool on Sunday dominating the table with 1.8 million viewers.
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RatingsDerby clash wins for Sky
Sometimes watching Tottenham Hotspur is like watching an episode of The Walking Dead. But fans’ hope, so often squished, springs eternal.
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RatingsLewis sees off Morse for ITV3
ITV3 wrestled with time and space this week as Lewis was pursued from the past by his deceased boss’s younger self.
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RatingsNew Hair suits BBC3
When the Oscar nominations were first announced, one strong contender was American Hustle.
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RatingsKnox doubles with repeats
One day in 1989, I came home to my shabby flat and even shabbier flatmates to be confronted with the sight of a gently listing bin spewing its contents, mostly the previous night’s curry, across the living room floor.
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RatingsRock fans like the ‘80s best
One day in the year 2095, a child wired for music intravenously will ask in wonder: ‘Grandad, what’s an MP3 player?’.
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RatingsMother fails to match geeks
South America is about to be everywhere, what with the Brazil World Cup this year and the Rio Olympics in 2016.
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RatingsBridge closes on a high
In a slightly surreal moment at a Radio Times do last week, the Danish ambassador received his copy of the magazine’s cover with the star of Borgen on it.
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RatingsPast treasures fail to shine
Rococo or Ancient Egyptian treasures? The votes are in and (if it existed anywhere outside of my head) the most esoteric poll ever delivered the ancients the spoils.
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RatingsGeeks help out E4 cops
E4’s geeky boffins have competition from a cop whose new boss wants less fun and more criminal capturing. Meanwhile, over on BBC4, Britain’s oldest butcher did rather nicely.
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RatingsThe Bridge lifts up BBC4
My fierce history teacher once delivered summary justice to one of the cool kids (during a lesson about appeasement, ironically). He was my hero after that and would have fitted right in with BBC3’s young instructors.