The first day in a fresh week of TV brought a new episode of Crimewatch (9pm) to BBC One and due to the unprecedented amount of media coverage, helped double its audience compared to recent efforts.
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Although, viewers were probably more gripped to see the aftermath of Chas and Paddy’s sweaty and ungodly love liaison.
Last night brought the grand finale of the gruesome and fun throwback to Hammer horror and improved slightly on last week’s audience.
It’s a battle that’s been brewing in the air for quite some time but last night finally brought the ultimate smackdown between the UK’s less popular soaps.
The ‘ground breaking’ show saw a real life couple runt away in a cube in the middle of a studio, clean themselves off and then chit chat with Mariella Frostrup and some sex experts (god help us all) about the grimy details.
Bob Wootton is not short of an opinion or two, and having spent 15 years lobbying and representing advertisers for ISBA, where better to start his new column than the biggest media merger in history…
An impressive 42% watched as Claudia Winkleman took on auto cue reading responsibilities from Bruce Forsyth, resulting in the weekend’s biggest audience.
The corporation hopes the move will help reach larger audiences of young people, as it plans to broadcast ‘Live Lounge’ performances and events.
Wednesday night saw both flagship BBC channels tick a box off the broadcaster’s remit as they ushered in a late evening of pure and unabashed patriotism in order to prop up the population with a warm fuzzy feeling.
