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Mad Men Crashes To Low TV Figures – Does It Matter With Bittorrent Out There?

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Mad Men has returned to UK screens, with a heavily trailed start to Season Two on BBC4. And the results were 240,000 (ish) viewers. That holds up pretty well to the Season One premiere that caught 270,000, A drop of 9% year on year is pretty respectable. Whether the number of viewers is worth what the BBC paid for, I don’t know. But what I would love to know is how many people in the UK have caught Mad Men via ‘the dark corners of the internet.’ That’s a hard number to calculate (if only the TV industry had a

Top Ten Things To Watch For on Sky’s Blake’s 7 Revivial

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Hmm, Blake’s 7 is coming back to Sky, is it? Right then, time for a Top Ten things I’m going to be watching out for in the new series… 1. Avon, strapped into some diabolical torture device, keeping him on the edge of death (yet in horrible pain) for the 25 years since the shoot-out where all his friends were killed. I think this would look lovely on Servalan’s wall (this opening scenario from Matthew ‘Life on Mars’ Graham). 2. In all seriousness, the decision to do a reboot (a la Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica) or a continuation (the current