Tuesday night brought us the latest UEFA Champions League game courtesy of ITV1. Adrian Chiles and his happy face brought us pre match analysis at 7:30pm with the help of Gareth Southgate and permagrump Roy Keane.The Group B face-off between Olympiakos and Arsenal kicked off 15 minutes later, live from Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens.After 38… Continue reading TV Overnights: Shirley’s agressive freak out nets 7.7m for BBC One

“Please welcome…AMANDA HOLDEN!”If that phrase sent a shiver through your nervous system, then last night’s main attraction might have sent you in to anaphylactic shock.The 100th Royal Variety Performance (ITV1, 7:30pm) saw the frothy crème of the entertainment world gather under one roof, all eager to perform for recognition. The centenary saw the show move… Continue reading TV Overnights: Britain’s Got Talent advert nets 8m viewers for ITV1

Simon Cox, vice-president and head, Turner Media Innovations, EMEA has said that TV advertising will increasingly be based around content in its own right rather than take the form of the traditional 30-second spot.Speaking at last week’s Future TV Advertising conference in London, Cox said that advertising in the future could increasingly take the form… Continue reading The future of advertising will be content-based

Consumers in the UK are changing the way they view TV and video content by increasingly taking control of how, when, and where they view it, according to a new survey released by Accenture.About half (48%) of consumers surveyed in Accenture’s Pulse of Media Consumer Survey are viewing over-the-top (OTT) video through a broadband connection… Continue reading Nearly half of UK consumers view OTT content

The weekend brought us more of the same juggernaut reality TV shows, although at least one of them had the decency to wrap it up while it still had a prime time audience.

Mark Brandon, Virgin Media’s commercial director, said last week that the company’s targeted advertising trial rollout was imminent. Speaking at last Wednesday’s Future TV Advertising conference in London, Brandon said that Virgin’s video on demand advertising had already been an unqualified success.Speaking to Digital TV Europe Brandon said that Virgin Media was taking its move… Continue reading Virgin Media plans launch of targeted advertising

The onset of winter saw the UK’s online population jump up to its highest level since UKOM began reporting in January 2010.

Feeling sleepy? Well good, you probably caught up with the first part of the exciting and eye opening series that claims to lift the lid on Britain’s sleeping habits. If that is your sort of thing.Sian Williams took us on a unsettling journey in her Sleep Mobile to study five cursed people who are afflicted… Continue reading TV Overnights: 8.8m tune in to ITV1 for Tyrone’s dash for freedom

Tuesday night’s prime time fun officially kicked off at 7pm with the latest drama from the peaceful hamlet of Emmerdale (ITV1).Time was running out for poor old Katie who has been fighting to stay alive in a collapsed underground tunnel for (from a viewers perspective) five days now.Meanwhile, the vast majority of the cast were… Continue reading TV Overnights: Bianca’s miserable return nets 7.6m for BBC One

Not since the intense Bourne-like rooftop chase of Feb 2010 have the crew on EastEnders (BBC One, 8pm) been tasked with delivering us such an explosive episode. Monday night gave us the aftermath of the year’s big Walford disaster…