Television

  • How much data was used to stream Jeremy Clarkson’s The Grand Tour?

    How much data was used to stream Jeremy Clarkson’s The Grand Tour?

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    Unlike BBC and ITV, where the overheads for broadcasting a series are much the same whether 5,000 or 5 million tune in, streaming is a data-heavy way of making shows available – the more people who watch, the more bandwidth that is needed.

  • UKTV’s Really unveils all-new onscreen look

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    Really, the lifestyle channel from UKTV, has unveiled an all-new rebrand which builds on audience research showing its viewers “find real life stories more powerful than fiction.”

  • New BBC season to explore the Royal Collection

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    Airing on BBC Four, the four-part The Royal Collection will see Andrew Graham-Dixon visit royal residences, museums and galleries across the UK where he’ll explore a collection that includes world-famous masterpieces by Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Canaletto and unrivalled collections of exquisite drawings by Holbein and Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams casts Richard Madden

    Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams casts Richard Madden

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    Richard Madden (Game of Thrones, Cinderella), Holiday Grainger (The Finest Hours, Cinderella) and Anneika Rose (Line of Fire, Silent Witness) join the cast of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams which is coming soon to Channel 4.

  • The Game of Thrones will be won in 2018 – but then what?

    The Game of Thrones will be won in 2018 – but then what?

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    Game of Thrones will go down in history not just as one of the most successful television programmes, but in succeeding in becoming a televisual event. The Season 6 finale in summer 2016 garnered 8.9 million viewers. Viewer figures have increased consistently (3 million, 4.2 million, 5.4 million, 7.1 million, 8.1 million) for the preceding…

  • Hugh Grant to star in new Russell T Davis drama about Jeremy Thorpe

    Hugh Grant to star in new Russell T Davis drama about Jeremy Thorpe

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    The three-part drama marks Grant’s return to British television screens for the first time since the early 1990s and is based on the bestselling book by the author and former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and Sunday Telegraph John Preston.