This week’s exciting repeat of DIY SOS: The Big Build (9pm) saw the team of big hearted builders descend upon Wales for a bit of makeover magic and quality scripted banter.
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After Kevin Spacey attracted headlines last week with his MacTaggart lecture in Edinburgh, Raymond Snoddy looks in more detail at what he said – and wonders how much of a threat the likes of Netflix really pose to cable operators.
TalkTalk’s pay-TV offering has reached the half a million subscriber mark within the first year of the company starting, and claims to be the fastest growing pay-TV service.
The smart set-top box and dongle market is expected to pass 18 million units in 2013 – higher than originally forecast, due to the arrival of Google’s Chromecast device.
Accrington, in Lancashire, has been named the 100th town in the UK to receive the superfast mobile internet.
Garden-fresh whippersnapper Nicholas Lyndhurst (you may know him from edgy youth sitcom Only Fools and Horses) stepped up to become the fourth corner of the dusty UCOS team.
Forget trying to celebrate yet another ‘year of mobile’ says Videology Group’s Anne de Kerckhove, and in 2013 raise your glass to the year of cross device consumption.
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.
Following AOL’s purchase of Adap.tv, along with fresh viewing figures from Thinkbox, it’s plain to see that video on demand is growing, says Dominic Mills – though achingly slowly – and live TV certainly retains an iron grip on our viewing habits for now.
New TV viewing figures from Thinkbox for the first half of 2013 show how people’s television habits are changing as on-demand TV viewing becomes a more established part of people’s lives.
