January was a good month for commercial broadcasters, with no declines recorded across the board.
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BBC One scored a successful evening last night, claiming eight spots in Tuesday’s top 10 shows and securing the 9pm slot with Happy Valley.
Up 7.4% year on year, TV advertising managed to outpace total UK market growth of 6.1%.
Monday night brought the return of the epically titled The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story as the ‘classy’ BBC Two drama saw the Juice go on the run.
After a bit of a tumultuous start, the third episode of this year’s The Great Sport Relief Bake Off ensured the short-lived show was well and truly back on track.
BBC Three has gone online-only this week, and the Independent newspaper is set to follow suit in March – but let no-one think it is a neat, futuristic thing or anything other than second best.
After a triumphant return last week, the second series of actually-really-good-I-swear regional cop show Happy Valley continued to deliver the goods yesterday as Sgt Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) experienced yet another trying week.
You have until the end of the day to enter Mediatel’s annual Connected Consumer Awards, which invite media owners, agencies, consultancies and tech providers to showcase the best of their work from the last 12 months.
Another adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace was a hit for the BBC in January, with Sherlock and Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur also doing well.
The former chairman of Endemol UK will replace Archie Norman from May 2016.