Television

  • YouView: Catch-up services accounts for a fifth of UK TV viewing

    YouView: Catch-up services accounts for a fifth of UK TV viewing

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    Connected TV platform YouView has released an infographic illustrating the findings of its 2013 census into national television habits. The poll of viewers reveals that use of catch-up or on demand (VOD) television services such as BBC iPlayer and ITV Player now accounts for a fifth of the nation’s TV viewing. YouView provides easy access…

  • YouView announces new catch-up and on demand deal with UKTV

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    YouView users will soon gain access to catch-up and on demand content from UKTV’s popular free-to-air channels Dave, Yesterday and Really. In July a Dave-branded portal will be added to the YouView on demand menu with content also available via YouView’s scroll back programme guide. YouView customers will enjoy demand access to hit shows such…

  • 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…