April saw the return to ITV of Simon Cowell’s other cash cow TV project, Britain’s Got Talent, proving there is still an appetite for watching members of public make fools of themselves, as original drama has a great month across all the major channels.
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BT’s TV offering is now comparable with Sky’s – and certainly better value for money – says the Bank of America Merrill Lynch as it forecasts Sky will lose around 300,000 satellite customers each year.
For the second evening in a row, viewers were spoiled with another serving of post-feminist flag waving with Scott & Bailey (ITV, 9pm) as, for once, personal issues were put on the back burner in favour of some solid police work.
In the second part of our series examining the findings of a ground-breaking study from The Future Laboratory, News International’s Abba Newbery investigates ‘Authoritative News’ and the ways that newsbrands can present confident leadership and a strong point of view for their audience to align with
Swapping flat pack IKEA knock offs for cow pat caked wellies, Wednesday night saw Lord Sugar’s motley crew of bumbling hopefuls head to the countryside in the fourth episode of The Apprentice (BBC One, 9pm).
Privacy law is changing and the effect on personal data – key to the relationship between brands and consumers – will be monumental, says Colin Strong, Managing Director, GfK NOP Business & Technology. So what can brands do to ensure they don’t get caught out? Ensuring data issues are not ghettoised within a business is step one…
Woman’s Weekly, one of the UK’s most iconic consumer newsbrands, has agreed a deal with Pedigree Books that will see it publish two yearbooks as it treads into the the world of book publishing amid declining magazine sales.
As viewers struggled with the Tuesday blues, soap characters turned to illicit vices to get them through last night. Drug taking appeared to be all the rage in the soaps with Emmerdale (ITV) kicking off the frenzy of increased sensitivity at 7pm.
The Competition Commission has today announced that it will force Global Radio to sell stations in seven areas of the UK as part of a fair acquisition of Real and Smooth.
Turning the attention away from any ongoing internal scandals, last night saw BBC One’s Panorama investigation into the Hillsborough disaster point its big stick of blame at misleading officials and the emergency services.
