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On Wednesday BSkyB acquired 21st Century Fox’s 100% stake in Sky Italia and its 57.4% interest in Sky Deutschland, in a deal worth almost £7 billion.

Tuesday night saw James Nesbitt’s mission to maintain a perma-scowl and find his lost son continue, as gruelling drama The Missing (9pm) topped off a successful evening for BBC One.

New findings and a progress update have been shared with industry from BARB’s Project Dovetail – the measurement body’s new hybrid measurement system for full cross-platform reporting.

Channel 4 claims it is the first first broadcaster in Europe to develop a programmatic platform for agencies to buy VOD ads against its unique audience segmentation as part of a partnership with Freewheel.

The picture postcard 1950s-set crime drama opened up with 5.2 million viewers at the start of October and features a tortured vicar and a Gruff Geordie cop called Geordie, his partner in bromance and crime-solving.

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.

As Decipher launches its Wave 5 Mediabug research, Matt Walters, senior consultant, talks us through the competition in the electronic sell-through (EST) market.

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.

BBC Store is set to launch in March 2015 and will be headed up by former Virgin Media and BT executive, Jonathan Green.

As EE launches its new TV service, a senior consultant at Decipher says the firm now has the opportunity to integrate its mobile/broadband customer data with EE TV usage data – can it break new ground in the UK?