All Digital Focus articles – Page 32
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RatingsBBC4 bowls them over
As The Ashes kicked off, BBC4 took a sideways look back at cricket, airing Aussie two-part factual drama Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War.
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RatingsSkins takes a bow for E4
Without a doubt, the scariest villain of all time is the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. BBC4 visited the location for his nefarious ne’er-do-well’s crimes this week and I hid behind a cushion. Elsewhere, Skins returned for a final fling and the top of the table revealed a ...
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RatingsCracking show for egg doc
After declaring himself the egg man, John Lennon sang ‘goo goo g’joob’ – the noise the eggs made when, as a nipper, I spilled the contents of our weekly shopping trolley into the road.
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RatingsSport is the winner
Someone said to me recently that 2013 was a non-sport year, which I found odd, because I’ve been watching a lot of it.
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RatingsBBC3 hits back of the net
I rang a call centre the other day. I was bamboozled into the wrong department by apparently not having enough choices to select, which, after pressing six on the third menu surprised me a bit.
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RatingsA good call for BBC3
We’re on a new digital journey, with a new table breaking out those digital shows unconnected to PSB operators. But where they have breakout hits, they’ll still appear here; think of this as the definitive digital mirror to our top 100.
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RatingsEquality adds up for BBC4
A century after the most dramatic moment in the campaign for women’s suffrage at the 1913 Derby, BBC4 launched its own comedic tribute to the movement.
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RatingsBBC channels get serious
With BBC2 delivering huge numbers in drama, the BBC’s digital channels decided that 9pm Monday was the time to serve up some serious factual shows.
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RatingsViewers rock out with BBC4
The ’80s popsters Prefab Sprout sang rather plaintively about The King Of Rock ’n’ Roll and, more mysteriously, Albuquerque.
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RatingsAudience eats up Hannibal
Since Hannibal Lecter told Agent Starling he was “having a friend for dinner”, dinner parties have never been the same.
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RatingsBig total for Small Stuff
One website offering puns of the day goes back to 1999, when apparently April’s best one-liner was about a chicken being poultry in motion.
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RatingsSwedish crime hits new low
Not The Nine O’Clock news once famously suggested that Roald Dahl’s mother couldn’t spell Ronald; it seems she couldn’t spell Arnie either, as BBC4’s latest member of its Scandinavian Saturday Night Club continued.
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RatingsDefiance pays off for Syfy
This week, Syfy found that in a post-apocalyptic world, the appliance of defiance brings riches, as the channel’s newest import landed with a thump.
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RatingsQuiet return for Mad Men
It was a bit like being taken around a surrealist exhibition with a suspiciously strong cocktail in hand when Mad Men returned with a feature-length episode.
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RatingsGame on for Sky’s Thrones
Once at a wedding in Copenhagen, a faultlessly polite Dane asked my friend what we might do in Denmark. Go to Malmo, replied my friend; Malmo is of course in Sweden.
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RatingsITV2 whips up Plebs success
Are the ex-chief whip and ITV2 in cahoots? With brilliant, enviable timing, the former government enforcer resurrected the issue of Plebgate just as the broadcaster launched its new show, Plebs. Worth thousands of on-air promos, that.
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RatingsTVC goes one step beyond
My first day at the BBC coincided with charity abseiling down the side of the TV Centre by quaking would-be plummetiers.
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RatingsSpurs score for ITV4
Manicurists in London may have had a few odd visits from burly blokes on Friday morning: Tottenham fans with no nails asking for falsies.
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RatingsCrufts is top dog for C4
My childhood companion was a dog called Dougal. On long postschool walks, one of us would always walk through the muddy puddle, and sometimes it was him. We Brits love our dogs, as More 4 finds out with each passing year.
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RatingsKing still rules on More 4
I promised I wouldn’t mention Richard III again, but blow me if More 4 hasn’t made that difficult with more on the car park king.