It was a clash of the grim and gritty later on as ITV’s third series premier of Vera (8pm) went head to head with BBC One’s new four part drama What Remains (9pm). The ITV show staring Brenda Blethyn as yet another maverick detective did get a head start on its two hour investigation.
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5.9 million viewers tuned in at 8pm to see Paddy and Rhona’s marriage go supernova, resulting in a 33% share. As expected, the second episode of Emmerdale was down slightly, with the audience falling to 5.8 million viewers.
David Platt’s continuing trouble in Coronation Street (7:30pm) provided ITV with Wednesday’s biggest audience with a single outing for the Weatherfield drama.
After a number of tragic cases of social media misuse hitting the headlines, GfK’s Colin Strong looks at new research that sheds light on how young people engage online – and offers advice to brands so they can help operate responsibly.
Channel 5 witnessed a pretty impressive above average start to the week with their late night line-up yesterday as a modest but consistent ratings draw came to a close and the latest buzz-producing American import was ushered in.
Today’s ABC release, for the January to June 2013 period, charts the continuing downward trend for the consumer magazine print market, with just a few exceptions.
The launch of the iPad, and later Apple’s Newsstand, marked the beginning of a rare period of tech-fueled optimism for the magazine industry – but after some high-profile flops, was this misguided? Peter Houston, founder of Flipping Pages Media, finds out.
Scientifically proven by a team of experts to be simply the worst day of the week, Tuesday received an ITV-administered shot of excitement as the broadcaster chose to fill its hour long prime time slot with slow-motion shots of dogs running and jumping with long jets of saliva flying everywhere on The Secret Life of Dogs (ITV, 9pm).
It’s silly season and news is drying up – so it’s a good job Research the Media’s Richard Marks is on hand to share his top ten ways to derive whatever meaning you like from figures that should really be telling a different story.
The penultimate episode of the theatrical retelling of history, The White Queen (BBC One, 9pm) brought in 3.2 million viewers who tuned in for some political wrangling and rumpy pumpy by candlelight.
