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A brand new week brought Richard Hammond’s same old face – last night he got all evangelical about nature for the last time on BBC One.The enthusiastic presenter wrapped up his boy’s own escapade in a suitably adventurous fashion – last night he was interacting with whales while sitting inside a submersible vehicle, all in the… Continue reading TV Overnights: Gadgets and adventures fail to free viewers from the jungle

Andy Eardley, director and co-founder of the TV App Agency, on smart TV connectivity and how to encourage users to interact.

New research from Harris Interactive shows that over half of Americans have streamed TV programming across a variety of devices.While streaming may not be currently overtaking traditional TV viewership methods, 30% of Americans have the ability to watch streamed programming on their TV sets (19% via set top boxes or game systems, 17% via Internet-compatible… Continue reading 53% of Americans have watched TV shows via streaming

Magazine advertising investment could more than double before return on investment drops to that of TV, new study claims.

The weekends television saw an onslaught of over-scheduled reality TV shows – thankfully Children in Need was around on Friday to (ever so slightly) shake things up.FridayOne show dominated Friday night’s schedule and in a pleasant change to the norm, it wasn’t I’m a Celebrity. At 7:30pm the BBC rolled out all the top names… Continue reading TV Overnights: Strictly just manages to beat off I’m a Celebrity with 10.3m for BBC One

It was hailed as the first truly digital Olympics, yet most still watched on TV with friends – with the most viewers since the measurement of Olympic viewing figures began.

ITV has revealed the first details of its major, business-wide rebrand – which will see a new unifying brand identity from January 2013.

A pretty unspectacular month sees the top programme chart dominated by news programmes. The fallout from BBC Two’s Newsnight problems saw a big rating for a special version of BBC One’s current affairs programme Panorama.

Just one day after hitting low audiences figures, rustic soap Emmerdale (7pm) bounced back with an hour long special (a revolutionary idea, this – it’s like the usual two episode fare on Thursday night but without sticking a random and blatantly obvious substandard filler show in the middle).Thursday night saw Debbie take a break from… Continue reading TV Overnights: Emmerdale batters EastEnders

Julie MacManus of MediaTel reports from the MRG conference in Monte Carlo.