All Digital Focus articles – Page 37
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RatingsCup runneth over to HD
Share to all the satellite channels during major events on terrestrial TV usually declines, reversing the perpetual upward trend.
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RatingsPirates find TV treasure
World Cup bobbing and weaving can be seen in the digital world as broadcasters strive for alternative audiences. BBC3, for instance, used Pirates Of The Caribbean: At The World’s End, twice, to deflect football on two different channels.
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RatingsRepeats make longer game
EastEnders, clobbered this week by ITV1’s BGT, was found by much of its missing audience via the BBC3 catch-up; a manner of viewing now completely familiar and, along with +1 channels and PVRs, forcing the ratings ‘winners and losers’ debate into a longer game.
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FeaturesFrom strikers to tenors
Prior to 1990, if anyone had said that opera and football would be synonymous they’d have been thought barking mad.
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FeaturesFamiliar feel at the summit
The usual suspects sit atop the table - talent, football and, of course, Glee. Elsewhere, detectives continue to show their worth, while screaming the answer might have had a rather echoing quality.
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FeaturesDebates keep public hooked
Sky News and BBC News, both spending their time scrapping for the prettiest girl in the playground, have probably never noticed plucky little Sky 3.
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FeaturesThe power of digital TV
This week, BBC3 and ITV2 delivered the four tenants of digital TV viewing: catch up, repeat of a classic, the discovery of a new thing and brand extension (the fifth, er, of the four is sport). BBC3 had the first three, ITV2 the fourth. Between them, they delivered five of ...
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RatingsThe Pacific on target for Sky
Sky Movie Premiere’s launch of the big-budget series The Pacific fought off all multichannel rivals on its launch.
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FeaturesKatie clobbers Lindsay next
Lindsay Lohan, Katie P, a man, his canoe and Courtney Cox: sounds like the cast of some earnest avant garde theatre workshop production or other entitled ‘Mortality’. But actually, it’s a week in digital telly.
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RatingsIndian cricket scores for ITV4
Half a league, half a league onward as Alfred, Lord Tennyson described the futile Charge of the Light Brigade. No such gloom among Sky 1 and ITV4’s respective leagues in this week’s line-up; each will be, in their own way, rather chuffed.
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FeaturesA tale of two generations
ITV Studios’ Come Dine With Me shows no sign of going cold turkey and deserves its own dining star for consistently giving More 4 a place at the top table.
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RatingsPVR pumps up the numbers
Last week, over a plate of fish and chips, myself and a chum were pondering what might be something of a new phenomenon: PVR viewing.
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RatingsAlbert Square comes alive
Television works miracles and in the case of poor Bradley, it was the miracle of life. The multitude flocked to BBC3 to watch him peal himself off the floor and have a bit of a chat after the live EastEnders eipsode on Friday night.
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RatingsFeasting on four courses
Come Dine With Me’s value to More 4 is amply demonstrated by four episodes of the ‘who cooks what in a house like this’ show appearing in the top 20.
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RatingsReplays build shows' totals
Bloodthirsty dancing teenagers, if they crawled out of their bedrooms, would be able to slouch proudly near the top of the multichannel chart. Glee and Being Human storm on while Got To Dance pirouettes toward its crescendo.
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FeaturesIt’s all singing and dancing
Julie Andrews famously once said that the younger generations “probably wouldn’t even know what a musical was like”, but if this week’s ratings are anything to go by, they’ve never been more in vogue.
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FeaturesHuman stays over a million
EastEnders’ strong storyline is helping BBC3 with three places in the top 10 but, hearteningly, there is also continued success with new stuff, bought and commissioned.
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FeaturesGlee garners all the glory
Humanity is hard enough to negotiate when you are human, so werewolves, ghosts and vampires must have a heck of a time. A distinctly corporeal audience has, however, warmed to their weekly agonies.
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FeaturesSpooks and size matter
While the real universe swirls about us in a magical and perplexing way, the digital universe piles in through the telly in a quite straightforward manner.
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FeaturesSky 1 making all the right moves
Bernstein and Sondheim would be proud. It’s like The Jets and the Sharks out there - our very own West Side Story; dancing on different days and maybe to different tunes, and perhaps on an off day.