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Finally, something other than the soaps captured Friday’s biggest audience! Also, fans of over-long, bombastic and superfluous talent shows were in for a real treat and Homeland returned with a second series of hyber-paranoid fun.

A report by Credit Suisse, which looks into the current state of Europe’s satellite industry, predicts that broadcasters in the US and Europe will begin broadcasting Ultra HD test channels by 2013.The report states that Ultra HD (commonly known as 4K, due to the 4,000 pixel resolution display – double the amount of current HD) would… Continue reading Broadcasters could launch Ultra HDTV test channels ‘next year’

BBC One came out blazing in the battle for Thursday’s 9pm slot with a heavily publicised new series. Last night saw the launch of hyber-paranoid espionage thriller Hunted, starring Angel from Home & Away.The plot saw Samantha return to work at a private intelligence agency, after an attempt on her life by members of her… Continue reading TV Overnights: BBC One’s Hunted uppercuts 4.5m in to submission

The global market of services on connected TVs will reach USD $3.23 billion in 2016, according to new research from GII (Global Information). This market will represent 16.8% of the OTT video market and about 1% of the global fixed video services market.

Speaking at Apps World this week, Daniel Danker, general manager, on-demand at the BBC, claims the corporation has been contrasting the effort involved in achieving reach and views on BBC iPlayer on connected TV devices versus the Apple iPad.

MediaTel’s Connected Consumer business manager, Anne Tucker, gives her take on the new second screen content, which provides video commentary alongside traditional broadcast programming…

The last episode in the series of Mrs Biggs (9pm), saw a combined ITV1 and ITV1 hd audience of nearly 3.9 million viewers.

Mercedes Benz is running an advertising campaign this weekend where TV viewers can control the story line using Twitter.

The BBC has announced that it is going to scale back the video content within its red button services on Sky, Freesat and Virgin.

TalkTalk has unveiled its YouView package, which includes a free YouView box.