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BBC One’s new six-part legal drama Silk debuted with more than 5.4 million viewers during last night’s 9pm to 10pm peak-slot.

The penultimate episode of ITV1’s The Biggest Loser won the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour ratings with a high of 3.9 million viewers last night.

ITV1’s popular Dancing on Ice attracted a peak audience of more than 8.2 million viewers during last night’s prime-time slot.

Virgin Media said 2010 was its “best ever” year, with revenues up 5.8% to £3.8 billion.

Greg Grimmer says HBO has built a paid-for subscription business in the US by producing high-quality drama – a feat not managed by Sky or indeed anyone else in the UK. Sky’s belated response to this has not been to try and re-create the formula with UK talent tub, but to import in its entirety – I give you Sky Atlantic. So well done to Sky for the next phase of its world domination and farewell to free-to-view high-quality US dramas on the BBC, ITV & C4.

BARB’s chief executive Bjarne Thelin sees a future where server data and panel data comes together, but says this can only be achieved if the industry “gets its act together and thinks about the bigger picture”.

The new BBC iPlayer app for the iPad was downloaded 54,511 times in the 24 hours following its release in iTunes last Thursday.

Three-screen viewing is becoming a reality in US households, with multi-screen viewing on the rise, according to eMarketer.

Ofcom has unveiled the product placement logo, which must broadcast at the start and end of shows that have been paid to include products.

Ant & Dec’s Push the Button game show debuted with almost 5.7 million viewers during ITV1’s Saturday night line-up.