All Digital Focus articles – Page 33
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FeaturesGolf swings it for Sky Sports
I gave up golf years ago; I couldn’t hit a barn door with a banjo. But I was gripped by the Ryder Cup on Sunday.
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FeaturesFootball is the winner
This week, Tom Jones recounted life from Pontypridd to Las Vegas, while China’s past gave up its secrets reluctantly.
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FeaturesComedy with dose of reality
At school, my best, least reliable friend was imaginary, so for me, Sky 1’s Moone Boy was more documentary than comedy.
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RatingsThe British give Sky a lift
The Sky revolution continues apace and this week it was The British who were coming.
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RatingsLemon puts squeeze on
ITV2 is benefiting from that most citrus of fruits as Celebrity Juice returned in a Thursday night ‘squeeze of Lemons’.
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RatingsTop marks for Bad Education
Bad Education – the BBC3 Jack Whitehall sitcom, not the shabby treatment of GCSE English students – has found its feet quickly.
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RatingsYesterday’s Secret is out
I once worked at the Museum Of London and was party to some pretty interesting secrets, not least a need to obscure the mushroom vol au vents from the then arts minister at a museum do. However, Yesterday’s museum secrets no longer seem all hushed up.
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FeaturesLemon comes to ITV2’s aid
Who needs actual reality when you can have a heightened version of it? That seemed to be ITV2’s thinking as Keith Lemon’s new series joined TOWIE in the schedules to good effect; an alternative to the Olympics.
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RatingsBBC3 races into the lead
Growing up near Box Hill, I remember the Dorking mound as a place where the only bikers you saw were menacing angels caressing heavy looking chains; this weekend, sleeker cyclists took on the Hill on one of the plethora of dedicated Olympic channels.
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RatingsTeam Sky help out ITV
An old bank manager of mine had long sideburns and was instantly nicknamed Sidies – it’s the only thing he has in common with Bradley Wiggins, who helped ITV4 (and ITV1) to some decent ratings.
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FeaturesWiggins rides to the rescue
Unlike the meandering amateur Boris bikers gawping at some distant London landmark, the Tour De France is hardcore cycling, where mountains are meant to be ridden up and over.
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FeaturesThe power of Dynamo
If Sinbad had taken Dynamo with him, his adventures might have been made less perilous by the sudden appearance of a baize table upon which card tricks would be performed, arresting the attention of the pursuing baddies.
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RatingsIt’s smiles all round for Sky
Sky Atlantic’s comedy night launched strongly with new shows from Alan Partridge, Armando Iannucci and Kathy Burke.
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RatingsBig weekend for music fans
A brace of musical festivals and David Bowie helped BBC3, BBC4 and Sky Arts deliver strong figures.
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RatingsTOWIE tour puts ITV2 top
Marbella: Essex on steroids. The only surprise is that it’s taken the TOWIE gang this long to go. Poor Spain, isn’t it suffering enough? Elsewhere, Dan Cruikshank’s London stories did nicely and ITV4 and BBC3 did well out of the Euros.
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RatingsTennis serves up an ITV4 hit
ITV4 recently added the French Open Tennis to its sporting roster and the fortnight of Parisian grunting has delivered.
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RatingsRevenge is sweet for E4
Revenge is allegedly a meal best served cold, and the lead character in E4’s latest import gobbles it up with relish. Elsewhere, BBC4 celebrated punk, BBC3 plugged in the Electric and Challenge TV’sBlockbusters had a P and other letters.
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RatingsIt’s all in the name
Common wisdom generally dictates a programme title should be short, preferably with the word ‘extreme’ at the beginning to ensure it arrests attention on the EPG.
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RatingsUS threatens cultural coup
It comes to something when Chelsea and Essex represent the UK’s cultural bulwarks, but heroically they were in the vanguard this week against a US monopoly of the top digital programmes.
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RatingsViewers tune in for history
These days, it is alarmingly easy to feel like some kind of ante-diluvian figure merely by having a laptop that’s three years old. BBC4 could have been referring to 2010 with its 2,000-year-old computer.