Digital Focus – Page 14
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV3’s sleuths secure results
With pay drama channel ITV Encore heaving in to view, ITV3 was determined to show its sibling upstart how it’s done, with its detective greatest hits. Meanwhile, BBC4 pulled on its white stetson and set off for Dodge City.
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CHARTS: Mum's the word for E4
The recent round of series culls in the US left The Big Bang Theory untouched and barging on for more
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Juice refreshes ITV2 audience
Whatever the chief ingredient of the juice of celebrities might be, it’s potent stuff, as ITV2’s comedy panel show breezes inexorably onwards.
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BGT sees off Eurovision
In Blackadder III, Prince George declared himself as thick as a whale omelette, but even he’d have known a hit when one clouted him.
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Georgians boost BBC4
Who would have thought those bewigged Georgians would have such an impact?
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Mushroom doc is magic
This week, in its studious fashion, BBC4 tapped into the magic world of fungi. Elsewhere, ITV2 spawned a new panel show, while E4 banged on with its geeks.
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Bees create a buzz for BBC4
Winnie the Pooh, not one of literature’s great thinkers, was nonetheless prepared to gamble everything if honey was involved, as illustrated by the whole bees/tree/balloon fiasco of legend.
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BBC4 finds TV gold in Eden
In an unlikely contest this week, it turned out that suburban gardens can hold their own in a stand-off with a backpacked Olympic bronze medallist and porn.
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E4 is back with a Bang
It’s likely that E4 whirled a jig of delight when The Big Bang Theory was awarded three more seasons.
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More 4 cruises with canal trip
As nippers, we didn’t think twice about playing down railway embankments, in rivers and alongside canals.
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BBC3 prison doc doubles
At my school, the careers advice service ranked in the education hierarchy somewhere below the upkeep of general sanitation.
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Great result for More 4
Football’s a regular top draw in multichannel and this week was no exception, with the clash between Manchester United and Liverpool on Sunday dominating the table with 1.8 million viewers.
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Derby clash wins for Sky
Sometimes watching Tottenham Hotspur is like watching an episode of The Walking Dead. But fans’ hope, so often squished, springs eternal.
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Lewis sees off Morse for ITV3
ITV3 wrestled with time and space this week as Lewis was pursued from the past by his deceased boss’s younger self.
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New Hair suits BBC3
When the Oscar nominations were first announced, one strong contender was American Hustle.
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Knox doubles with repeats
One day in 1989, I came home to my shabby flat and even shabbier flatmates to be confronted with the sight of a gently listing bin spewing its contents, mostly the previous night’s curry, across the living room floor.
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Rock fans like the ‘80s best
One day in the year 2095, a child wired for music intravenously will ask in wonder: ‘Grandad, what’s an MP3 player?’.
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Mother fails to match geeks
South America is about to be everywhere, what with the Brazil World Cup this year and the Rio Olympics in 2016.
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Bridge closes on a high
In a slightly surreal moment at a Radio Times do last week, the Danish ambassador received his copy of the magazine’s cover with the star of Borgen on it.
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Past treasures fail to shine
Rococo or Ancient Egyptian treasures? The votes are in and (if it existed anywhere outside of my head) the most esoteric poll ever delivered the ancients the spoils.
