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After a busy few weeks of activity for Netflix as they prepare to launch into the UK market, LOVEFiLM has been pro-active in a different way.

HMV has teamed up with FilmFlex Movies to announce the launch of an HMV-branded movies-on-demand service, called hmvon-demand.

Over on ITV1 and ITV1 HD replacing the show was the live UEFA Champions League, which started at 7.30pm airing the German team Bayer Leverkusen Vs Chelsea match untill 10pm.

As pointed out at MediaTel Group’s recent “Internet Comes to TV 3” breakfast event in association with Rovi, TV has always been social.

The trouble with the Leveson inquiry – is that it is starting to create such a dust cloud that other respectable media stories are being obscured and seem almost boring by comparison.

The MediaTel Group “Internet Comes to TV 3” event in association with Rovi yesterday provided a perspective on the connected TV market in Germany.

Rumours abound today that Samsung and possibly LG are due to team up with Google TV in 2012, with reports that LG’s will be first displayed at CES 2012 in Las Vegas in January and Samsung shortly after.

BBC One medical drama Holby City helped the channel score a comfortable win in the ratings battle with ITV1. Last night’s edition of the long running show, which saw headstrong Dr Antoine Malick place a patient’s life in danger during a surgical procedure, pulled in an impressive average audience of 5.4 million people and a viewing share of 22.2%.

The digital market has been through its period where traditional media brands had seemed unable to make the digital market place viable for their media assets.

A question from the floor challenged the panel at MediaTel Group’s third “Internet Comes to TV” event in association with Rovi to consider the perceived shift in consumer usage from PVRs to catch-up services, such as iPlayer.