Tuesday saw the masses return to 9pm slot with a mixture of working class drama, a grand South American adventure and a repeat of a dependable police procedural favourite.
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TV remains king, but digital adspend shows huge growth across the globe according to Carat’s latest forecats – whilst print goes into steeper decline.
As usual, Monday night brought a bevy of soap action to keep the teatime masses entertained but dropped the ball when it came to the prime slot with broadcasters seemingly taking a breather after a heavy weekend.
With BBC Three facing a difficult future, ITV has picked up the rights to air Family Guy and American Dad in the new multi-year deal.
Saturday saw a severe case of rugby fever descend across the nation as BBC One celebrated the culmination of the Six Nations Rugby championship by delivering an entire afternoon of heated action.
February saw good ratings for rugby, Ant & Dec, this year’s BRITs award ceremony and an adaptation of JK Rowling’s latest novel.
Thursday night brought a glut of factual documentaries to UK TV screens, resulting in a rather lacklustre night of prime time thrills with only BBC Two managing to deliver some scripted drama.
The price of a sports TV package set to rise by £1 to £47 a month whilst the family bundle service will rise by £3 a month to £36.
February was a good month for nearly all broadcasters, with only Channel 5 seeing revenue totals fall compared to 2014.The youngest of the main free to air commercial stations had a revenue fall of 12.1% year on year, to stand at just over £20m.ITV1 network had a double digit increase in revenues for the monthly,… Continue reading TV market round-up: February 2015
Under the terms of the extended deal, Channel 5 will continue to broadcast two series of Celebrity Big Brother and one series of Big Brother each year, as well as associated programming.