All Digital Focus articles – Page 38
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RatingsBig brands prove worth
The value of the Big Entertainment Beasts when they work, and heck are they working, is evident in the performance of BBC1 and ITV1.
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RatingsFoil war vs Foyles War
It’s almost time to ponder the roast turkey and whether there’s enough foil to go round after last year’s supply debacle - there were ugly scenes in that foil war. ITV3’s Foyle’s War, however, was a thing of beauty in its counter jungle plan.
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RatingsFuture’s here and it’s in HD
Not that long ago, Mobile TV was The Future. Everyone would soon, apparently, be carrying EastEnders or The X Factor around in their pocket and watching ‘mobisodes’.
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RatingsMisfits have the power
This week’s digital focus examines Todd Margaret, Misfits and The Walking Dead.
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RatingsGood News for Russell
Good News if you’re Russell Howard, not so much if you are interviewed in a car.
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RatingsPower doc surges ahead
There are many opaque rules about sophisticated dinner parties, but an obvious one is: ‘Don’t talk about the workings of the National Grid, despite the six crème de menthes you’ve had.’ But after Tuesday, I’d start boning up on your pylons.
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RatingsHoorah for the horror
Kurtz’s final words in The Heart Of Darkness were ‘the horror, the horror’. BBC4 was probably shouting ‘Hoorah, the horror’ as its History Of Horror movies began.
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RatingsSlow start for Sky’s Thorne
Amid the usual suspects of factual, entertainment, brand extensions and, of course, The Inbetweeners (2.2 million/11% excl+1), Sky 1 launched its latest mainstream big-scale drama.
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RatingsRyder Cup hits the Sky
Jasper Carrot once described golf on the telly as hours of televised sky. And mostly it is, but every two years it becomes a proper sport and ironically on Sky, the 2010 Ryder Cup was a cracker.
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RatingsWe’re thirsty for Celeb Juice
Travel, they say, broadens the mind, but this week that received truth was challenged by the opposite notion that actually, for some, it narrows as an idiot went east.
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RatingsInbetweeners rise to the top
Inbetweeners, by definition, never find themselves at the top, but E4 proved this week that boys standing awkwardly at the back of the disco can win.
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RatingsThe opposites attract public
This week it’s all about Eddie Waring, Don Draper, Him, Her, and The Swiss.
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RatingsWeek of the curate’s egg
The phrase curate’s egg was coined to describe a very contrary egg but I bet it was never as curate-y as this week’s line-up. From Zimbabwe via touring ex-PM to Irish snooker player, and from a Hollywood blockbuster to a sobering look at sex traffickers, this week had the lot.
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RatingsXtra deja vu and bridal joy
Each week I feel a bit like the screenwriter on the movie Godzilla 8: The Return, Again. How many ways are there to say that Xtra Factor bestrode/stalked/towered over and terrified the multitude?
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RatingsManhunt fuels thirst for news
While the multi-million pound football festival in South Africa was coming to an end this week, a more homespun tragedy was unfolding in the north of England. Sky and BBC news channels saw large audiences on Friday as the week-long hunt for Raoul Moat ended.
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RatingsIt’s a family affair for BBC3
A hapless dad, a talking dog and an evil genius baby took top slot this week as Family Guy scored 1.2 million/6% for BBC3 on Sunday night, beating off the challenge of ITV2’s only slightly less cartoonish Peter Andre: The Next Chapter’s 1.1 million/5%.
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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.