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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.

Wednesday night saw BBC One take a slice of Channel 4’s greased up chicken shop action, although The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop (9pm) featured significantly less aggressive drunks and amorous drag queens.

Channel 4 has signed Dentsu Aegis Network as the first agency group to buy advertising programmatically on its soon-to-launch digital TV service, All 4, which replaces 4oD this year.

With the National Readership Survey under review, questions about the nature of joint industry research remain. Could media owners choose to go it alone, asks Research the Media’s Richard Marks.

Tuesday night brought the launch of a new ensemble drama on BBC One, with Ordinary Lies promising to be a hard-hitting tale dealing with the self-made trials and tribulations of those put-upon working class Northern types.