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Tomorrow will see the launch of Google Play on Google TV in the UK, Germany and France.The service, formally known as the Android Market, will allow users to buy or rent content (limited to films and music) over the internet giant’s smart TV platform.The Android Market initially opened in late 2008 and was rebranded earlier… Continue reading Google Play launches on Google TV in the UK

The weekend saw yet another insanely popular reality show enter the fray, while another struggled and Coronation Street’s latest drama cementing it’s popularity in the soap world.

When the Savile/Newsnight story first broke, Raymond Snoddy feared for the Director General’s future and asked: “Could it be that the BBC will finally get, rather sooner than expected, what many people thought it should have had all along – its first woman director-general?” Today he sees no reason to change that view.

The weekend brought us the concluding part of the apocalypse, more Strictly and X Factor than anyone would ever want and the end of Downton…

Over-the-top (OTT) revenue is set to quadruple to $32 billion by 2014, up from the expected $8.2 billion in 2012. According to a report by ABI Research, subscription services like Netflix have led the OTT markets the past couple of years, resulting in healthy growth. By 2014, however ABI, Research expects OTT rentals to surpass… Continue reading 2014 will see OTT rental revenues surpass subscription

The following infographic demonstrates how the UK population is now watching catch-up TV across the different platform options, using data from the latest quarter of MediaTel’s Connected TV Tracker survey, in association with YouGov.The infographic, created by The Infographics Agency, shows that the majority of catch-up TV viewing in the UK is still via the… Continue reading Infographic: How we’re watching catch-up TV

If you sat through the last series of The Apprentice wondering what could be more soul destroying than watching a group of highly vocal, self-righteousness, blindly confident, know-it-all, joyless idiots – then wonder no more. Last night, BBC One provided that answer.The third series of Young Apprentice (8pm) offered up the exact same format as… Continue reading TV Overnights: Lord Sugar starts them young

After numerous talks and legal wranglings, the BBC iPlayer has today launched on the Sky+ box. The addition of the BBC’s video on demand service to Sky’s set top box was originally announced in January of this year.Since then, the ITV Player, Demand 5 and Sky’s own On Demand service have launched on the platform.… Continue reading BBC iPlayer launches on Sky+

Last night saw New Tricks and Monroe battle it out for the 9pm slot for the fourth week in a row. And for a fourth (and last) time James Nesbitt’s virtuoso surgeon stumbled away defeated, tending to a bloody nose.

There were 199 million requests sent over the month, driven by an increase in radio requests, which were up 8% month on month.