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Last night brought the grand finale of the gruesome and fun throwback to Hammer horror and improved slightly on last week’s audience.

Starting in November, the social media feature will be used across NBC Universal’s cable and broadcast networks, including its coverage of the Winter Olympics.

Nigel Sharrocks, formerly of Aegis Media, succeeds Nigel Walmsley who has been Chairman for the past 11 years.

You could translate much of Tony Hall’s speech to mean ‘If I close my eyes hard enough, I can pretend that BSkyB, Virgin, BT and TalkTalk don’t exist’. But most of us are looking at the future of TV with our eyes open.

The number of TV sets connected to the Internet will reach 759 million by 2018 for 40 countries, up from 115 million at the end of 2010.

It’s a battle that’s been brewing in the air for quite some time but last night finally brought the ultimate smackdown between the UK’s less popular soaps.

In his first major speech since taking over the corporation in April, Lord Hall said that the BBC plans to move from being catch-up TV to online TV, allowing users to buy TV shows and keep them permanently.

In his first major speech since taking charge of the corporation in April, director general Tony Hall talked of plans to implement time-shifted viewing and a next generation iPlayer.

The ‘ground breaking’ show saw a real life couple runt away in a cube in the middle of a studio, clean themselves off and then chit chat with Mariella Frostrup and some sex experts (god help us all) about the grimy details.

Is planning a campaign based on the media platform the right move? Perhaps we should be putting more emphasis on the surrounding content and the emotional mindset it induces, via whatever platform it populates…