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Virgin Media has now added red button functionality to its TiVo service, starting with Sky Sports Red Button services.

Monday night’s TV viewing was dominated by the build up to Frank Foster’s murder in Coronation Street, which brought in a massive 10 million viewers.

Soaps were the main draw for viewers on Friday night with the first episode of Coronation Street securing the biggest audience of the entire weekend. A peak audience of 8.7 million viewers tuned in to see Sally Webster deal with the reality that relationships just might not be her thing.

Soaps were littered throughout Thursday night’s prime-time schedule with the top four most watched programmes of the day falling into the high-drama category.

The latest video-on-demand service for the UK launched this morning, called KnowHow, which as reported yesterday is intended to allows viewers to watch and buy from a library of films and TV shows directly from their TVs, smart phones, laptops and tablets. So how has launch day been?

Wednesday’s international friendly, England v Netherlands, scored the biggest audience of the night with 6.5 million viewers. The game kicked off from Wembley at 8pm on ITV1 and, despite a 3-2 win to the Netherlands, secured a 28% audience share with 959,000 viewers watching the game in HD.

Channel 4 catch up and archive Video on Demand content attracted 48 million views in January, across all the platforms on which 4oD is available.

EastEnders was the most watched programme during Tuesday’s TV line-up, drawing in 38% of the available audience. 8.3 million viewers tuned in to see Ray realise the extent of Bianca’s obvious financial troubles. Over 60% of viewers watching the soap, airing at 7:30pm on BBC One, were female.

Currys and PC World has announced their expansion into an entirely new category with the launch of KNOWHOW Movies, a transactional on-demand movie and TV streaming service.

ITV has released its preliminary results for 2011 with external revenues up 4% (driven by non-advertising revenues) and national advertising revenues (NAR) up 1% – outperforming the TV advertising market.