Easter Monday treated viewers to a televisual miracle as the BBC saw fit to resurrect a familiar face, as an innocuous detective was let loose from his tomb of seclusion.
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Last night saw viewers finally wave goodbye to Lucy, the vexed and bothersome spectre in ITV’s haunted drama Lightfields (9pm).
According to data recently released by digital measurement company Nielsen, the UK’s online audience is at its lowest level for almost a year.
Despite harsh weather sweeping across the country people turned away from the Internet following the post-Christmas slump.
Jim Marshall argues that newspapers still retain their potency for reporting and commenting on major news stories, despite those who suggest that newspapers are doomed. But this brings with it a responsibility which has greater significance and accountability in today’s ‘multi layered’ world of media – if newspapers are going to continue to be a gateway medium what they say has to be true.
Yahoo has made a millionaire out of 17 year-old app developer Nick D’Aloisio with the purchase of his news summary app, Summly – and although Raymond Snoddy says it’s great that news is being made more accessible via mobile devices – it’s a little less good that quality, journalistic content is being turned into convenient bullet points.
The BBC’s descent into ‘tough’ urban programming continued with Tuesday evening bringing even more suffering for the Butcher family, as down-trodden matriarch Bianca decided to shop her son Liam to the fuzz.
Richard Marks of Research the Media has a confession to make: after years of extolling the benefits of Big Data in audience measurement he must now admit that he was wrong to use those two little words. Here is his apology – as well as a call to action.
The return Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, after a four year absence, proved that the pint sized Geordies are still the nation’s favourite light entertainment presenters.
Monday night saw small town crime thriller Broadchurch (ITV, 9pm) continue its confident stride through Monday’s prime time slot as the European-influenced slow-burning drama reached the halfway mark.
Following Advertising Week Europe, which included Wednesday’s MediaTel Media Playground event, Digital Cinema Media’s CEO Simon Rees shares his highlights from an inspirational week.
