9pm last night brought the eighth and final episode of Downton Abbey’s (ITV) fifth series which saw the Crawleys up sticks and head for the smoky and hedonistic metropolis of London.
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After Publicis coughed up an eye-watering $3.7bn for Sapient last week, Dominic Mills examines what it says about the industry, and where it leaves the other holding companies.
As Decipher launches its Wave 5 Mediabug research, Matt Walters, senior consultant, talks us through the competition in the electronic sell-through (EST) market.
Ahead of the MRG International Conference in Berlin this week, Route’s MD, James Whitmore, asks whether it’s time for the JICs to change.
Maturing programmatic technologies are causing different parts of the advertising ecosystem to converge, writes Xaxis’ Richard Lloyd. Are we in for a bumpy ride?
In line with the increasingly grey weather, the latest ABC figures paint a relatively bland picture for national newspapers over the last month – with few titles recording any major increases or decreases in circulation.
Thursday night saw two ‘niche’ period dramas go head-to-head in a prime time confrontation, with both ITV and BBC Two offering up explosive series finales.
Last night brought the latest instalment from Alan Sugar’s uncomfortable comedy show The Apprentice (9pm), with the fifth episode continuing to expose all the remaining contestants for the clueless oxygen thieves that they are.
In what was one of the highlights of Media Playground, Torin Douglas interviewed Ashley Highfield, the ex-BBC man now trying to turn a print business that started life in 1767 into a mobile-first operation.
Tuesday night saw the return of BBC One’s grim and challenging missing child drama The Missing (9pm), as James Nesbitt’s bereaved father continued the search for his misplaced five-year-old son across two separate time lines.
