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A new study has been released that measures consumer behaviors and attitudes towards video on demand, which was ranked as the best available service for TV content ahead of DVRs and HD channels.

Quaint and twee country soap Emmerdale (ITV, 7pm) signalled the start of Wednesday night’s top shelf content as the poor man’s Robert Downey Jr, Cameron, escaped another bullet in the nick of time.

Broadchurch was a huge hit for ITV, says Richard Marks of Research the Media – but will it be able to replicate that success? Whatever happens, at least we’ve learned that rather than ‘the Internet’ proving to be a threat to TV, in many ways it is just what it has been waiting for: digital technology propagating a buzz around a show, and then giving people the means to join the party – a rolling stone gathering digital moss.

As Sir Alex Ferguson announces he is to retire as manager of Manchester United, Raymond Snoddy argues there are lessons business leaders can learn. Indeed, it is not even too fanciful to see comparisons in the way that Peter Fincham, ITV’s director of television, has built up an improving roster of programmes and executives. And after poaching BBC Four controller Richard Klein this week, his team is only getting stronger…

Despite the fact that recent legal actions confirmed the show to be as transparently vacant as we all suspected, Tuesday night brought the brand new series of Lord Sugar’s desperate hunt for cringe inducing sound bites.

Samsung has acquired the second-screen startup company MOVL in a bid to build upon and improve its smart TV marketplace.

New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group Inc. reveals that more US households are connected to the internet via games consoles rather than Smart TVs.

There’s a lot more to allocating ad budgets than just eyeballs, says Dominic Mills, and before any medium can increase its share of ad revenue it has to prove itself.

The latest report from The NPD Group reveals that 47% of home entertainment devices are currently connected in the US, with streaming media players and games consoles used more than internet capable televisions.

The working week kicked off in suitably dramatic fashion after three days of family films and desperate talent show auditions.