All Digital Focus articles – Page 33
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RatingsAd men miss their target
Over the years, Oxford saw more than its fair share of murders, but spare a thought for Sicily; it’s just as bad there, as BBC4 points out, with subtitles. Elsewhere, the dragons and dungeons in made-up worlds returned, apparently infinitely more palatable than advertising execs.
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RatingsLow-key start for Mad Men
Acclaimed US drama launches on Sky Atlantic with a fraction of its BBC4 figures
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RatingsA nice Touch for Sky 1
“Don’t touch that” was something I was told a lot as a child, but I didn’t listen (as the time I put my finger in a socket at college proved). Sky 1 launched a Touch of its own this week, Yesterday celebrated the jet set, while BBC3 turned sportsmen into ...
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FeaturesGently does it for BBC4’s Dirk
As the Large Hadron Collider gears up its latest search for the Higgs Bosun, maybe it can also look out for whatever it was that made Douglas Adams’ brain. His Dirk Gently stories do make you wonder if it was created somewhere other than here.
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RatingsBowled over by a BBC4 doc
As BBC4 approached its tenth birthday, it gave us a place to think in an epically brilliant film on what West Indies cricket meant beyond mere sport.
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RatingsITV2 can’t do without Kyle
If ITV2 considers Celebrity Juice and The Only Way is Essex to be brand-defining, then the Jeremy Kyle Show might be the series it can’t ever do without.
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RatingsThe force is with Stella
Breaking news from this week’s Stella; it turns out Darth Vader isn’t Luke’s father after all; rather, he’s a Welsh bloke called Rob.
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RatingsITV2’s Juices really flowing
In 2008, Keith Lemon’s Celebrity Juice debuted with a not spiffing 279,000/1.6% and nowhere near the terrestrials.
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RatingsSunday night gets spooky
Apparently Sunday nights aren’t gloomy enough, what with work looming, but now the supernatural have moved in, making it spooky as well. Elsewhere, Spartacus is vengeful, Borgen exits and the Kiwis reinvent Odin.
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RatingsDocs doc and Essex appeal
What is it about Essex, junior doctors, detectives and dancing? Who knows, but this week they made their presence felt.
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Ratings5* rating for Celebrity BB
This week some Daves in suits launched, BBC4 went to France, the sweaty Mad Dogs returned and 5* got a big boost from the switchover from the live Big Brother house.
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RatingsAudience hail BBC4’s Kings
At school, mediaeval kings always seemed pretty two-dimensional to me, largely because that was how they were painted: flat but faintly startled. It turns out that maybe they were more rounded and colourful than that.
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RatingsBBC4 viewers enjoy a Danish
It used to be that Danish only meant sizzling bacon but now it’s a byword for gripping drama on BBC4.
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EastEnders success fails to translate to BBC3
Christmas Day was business as usual for BBC3’s EastEnders repeat, writes Stephen Price
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RatingsScousewives cleans up
There’s a thin line between genius and madness, as Storyville depicted. E4’s Desperate Scousewives got off to a good start, while ITV2 is feeling an Xtra pinch.
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RatingsCafé serves up a treat for Sky
The digital channel catch-up service came into its own again as viewers negotiated their way around pesky scheduling. Elsewhere, The Killing II rumbled on and Sky Atlantic invited us to a diabolical dinner.
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RatingsDouble Killing boosts BBC2
The Killing returned with much hullabaloo, mostly about knitware; Ross Kemp was back in action; this ‘not telling the bride’ business is catching on, while those stuck celebrities remain competitive.
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RatingsCelebrity Juice tops US rivals
This week, there was the first sight of a new plan for Really, while FX delivered an American Horror Story.
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RatingsStrong week for stalwarts
There’s a great deal of strength piling on strength currently. Hollyoaks, that stalwart of Channel 4 and E4, has picked up the mantle post-Big Brother and is posting some big audiences; An Idiot Abroad is now a bona fide hit; and Him And Her has returned bigger than before.