All Digital Focus articles – Page 36
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RatingsBBC4 living la dolce vita
Sky 1 has taken advantage of the relatively quiet summer months with some early launches, and the third one landed this week. BBC4 found la dolce vita with a return trip down the Italian Peninsula, while ITV3 demonstrated where drama repeats actually work.
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RatingsNation tunes in to news channels
If you were a Martian landing on Earth and took a look at the Digital Networks Top Programmes list (because let’s face it, you would) you might think we were all news junkies. And if our visitor saw The Borgias too, he/she might also wonder what history narrative we thought ...
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RatingsTrollied debut is wobble-free
The summer, for all its mad weirdness, can be a place to deliver audiences - as Sky 1 discovered when Trollied rolled in very much unlike a supermarket trolly: in a straight line and avoiding ploughing into the baked bean display.
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RatingsDynamo’s the one to Watch
Something tells me that we might be hearing more of Dynamo as word spreads and Watch watches its numbers grow.
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RatingsConjuring up fans of magic
Tuesday’s Met/Murdoch melange benefited the news channels no end. If only, the lament may have gone, someone had a magician to make it all go away.
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RatingsITV4 on the right track
This week’s digital focus considers the Tour de France, Dynamo, British Masters and Family Guy.
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RatingsRise of FX’s Falling Skies
This week the sky fell in, there was some sartorial history, more teen/ lupine angst and a dynamo generated big numbers.
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RatingsChannels roll out the bling
Lennon and McCartney once warbled that money can’t buy you love. That may be true, but it can get you a lot of bling, as two very different programmes from two very different channels showed.
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RatingsBBC hits right note at Glasto
The music festival season only ever really gets going when Glastonbury arrives, all muddy and hot. U2 didn’t have to tax themselves to be top dog, but Plan B might actually need one.
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RatingsIsle of Wight's alright for Sky
The Isle of Wight Festival 2011 came to Sky Arts 1. Elsewhere, Glee grew and BBC3 did well in Afghanistan.
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RatingsEastEnders we presume
As if proof were needed that viewers navigate their way around TV schedules with the alacrity of a Livingstone or a Stanley (but maybe not Glen Miller’s pilot), BBC3’s catch-up transmission of EastEnders dominated proceedings this week.
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RatingsMTV discovers new shores
This week’s digital focus considers MTV’s Geordie Shore and ITV2’s Celebrity Juice.
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RatingsToo much of a Glee thing?
Julia Bradbury this week walked about in Iceland, Celebrity Juice topped the charts, while Glee’s success might end up being a double-edged sword for E4.
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RatingsTitle decider scores for Sky
As the football season draws to an end, some matches have a significance beyond weekly bragging rights, as revealed by the whooping from my Man Utd-supporting neighbour on Sunday.
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RatingsBBC3 keeps up with Mr Jones
On terrestrial channels, movies can be an expensive disappointment, but for digital networks, they can work wonders at a fraction of the cost. This week, BBC3 saw Indiana Jones write that in large, coded letters.
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RatingsThrone game out of blocks
There’s still time to create our own 2012 Olympic event. And after Monday, maybe it’s the Game Of Thrones, whatever the heck that is. Huge chair throwing perhaps?
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RatingsJuicy ratings for bad mums
There must be something special about the juice of celebrities, for it seems it’s able to flow uphill. Then, before their waters break, mums wish to misbehave, and large numbers wanted to watch them do so.
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RatingsGlee won and dreams lost
The gleefulness of high-school dreams is countered this week by the boulevard of broken dreams. Essex meanwhile goes from strength to strength in the same week.
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RatingsRetro pop is a hit for BBC4
This week’s digital focus explores BBC4’s return to classic Top of the Pops and its hit foreign crime drama.