The sight of a sitting member of parliament and ex-soap actress turned WAG eating camel toes hooked viewers to ITV1 last night. It would have been a surprise to see Helen Flanagan recite the complete works of Shakespeare, yet it’s fair to say her portrayal of dizzy airhead Rosie Webster in Coronation Street wasn’t exactly a stretch for her.
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Revenues decreased 1.9% at TalkTalk after eight consecutive quarterly falls in customer numbers and was pushed out of the number three slot earlier this month by BSkyB.
One of the sessions at last week’s Huddle event at Mindshare was looking at second screens and their implications on the broadcast industry, chaired by Lindsey Clay, managing director, Thinkbox.
If the tabloid attention left anyone in doubt, the second episode of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here (ITV1, 9pm) confirmed that the positions had been filled for the nation’s two hate figures.
This morning’s Q3 statement from ITV impressed the stock market. At the time of writing shares in the company had increased by 6% in an overall market that has declined over the last few days.
Claire Spencer, Insights Director, UM London, looks at the ways to exploit the growing trend of multi-screen viewing.
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37% of global mobile media users follow the English Premier League, and it’s even more popular in South Africa and some of the Arab states, than in the UK, according to new research.
The weekend saw yet another insanely popular reality show enter the fray, while another struggled and Coronation Street’s latest drama cementing it’s popularity in the soap world.
When the Savile/Newsnight story first broke, Raymond Snoddy feared for the Director General’s future and asked: “Could it be that the BBC will finally get, rather sooner than expected, what many people thought it should have had all along – its first woman director-general?” Today he sees no reason to change that view.