Television

  • YouView releases Android remote record app

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    Connected TV platform YouView has today released an Android version of its remote record app. Like the IOS version for Apple’s iPhone, the app allows YouView customers to record their favourite television programmes onto their YouView set-top box, while on the move. it also provides listings for over 70 digital TV and radio channels for…

  • ITV revives Birds of a Feather

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    ITV has confirmed it’s reviving 90’s sitcom Birds of a Feather. The series, which originally aired on BBC One between 1989 and 1998, stars Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as sisters whose husbands have been jailed for armed robbery. Both Quirke and Robson will return for the new 8-part series alongside fellow original cast member…

  • How can you best watch television in bed?

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    This month marks 60 years since the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a glorious event which was the first of its kind to be broadcast on television. In those days TV sets were very expensive – and with only one channel to watch, you’d have to assume that there wasn’t something for everyone! But the…

  • LOVEFiLM brings Vikings back to the Thames

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    For the first time since the original 842 AD London invasion, two Viking longboats manned with fully-armed Viking raiders sailed down the River Thames today. The 35-foot boats were in the capital to promote the UK release of critically acclaimed US TV series Vikings which arrives on Amazon’s LOVEFiLM later this month. The TV and…

  • UKTV reveals new look for Really

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    UKTV is to rebrand its Really channel as it seeks to “shift viewer perceptions.” The lifestyle-themed channel draws audiences of around 4.7 million each week and has seen audiences grow off the back of major US acquisitions including Hart of Dixie and CIA spy thriller Covert Affairs which stars Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly). The shows…

  • UKTV to launch new Drama channel on Freeview and YouView

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    UKTV, the owners of Gold, Really and Dave, are to launch a new drama themed channel on Freeview and YouView. Named Drama, the channel will go live on 8 July 2013 and offer modern and classic British drama including Tipping the Velvet, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Cranford and Lark Rise to Candleford. The channel is expected…