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16 Nov 2012
A pretty unspectacular month sees the top programme chart dominated by news programmes. The fallout from BBC Two's Newsnight problems saw a big rating for a special version of BBC One's current affairs programme Panorama.
14 Nov 2012
The sight of a sitting member of parliament and ex-soap actress turned WAG eating camel toes hooked viewers to ITV1 last night. It would have been a surprise to see Helen Flanagan recite the complete works of Shakespeare, yet it's fair to say her portrayal of dizzy airhead Rosie Webster in Coronation Street wasn't exactly a stretch for her.
18 Oct 2012
The second episode of the third series of Downton Abbey heads a list of returning favourites this month.
24 Sep 2012
This week's Piers Morgan's Life Stories featuring double Olympic gold medalist Dame Kelly Holmes couldn't compete with BBC One's Friday night comedy line up.
21 Sep 2012
Last month there was a lot about the Olympics... and it's more of the same for August.
15 Aug 2012
Cast your mind back to Thursday 26 July. Back then it's probably true to say that a fair few people within the media (and some outside of it) were pretty negative about the Olympics. Maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but we certainly weren't expecting the spectacular show Danny Boyle laid on for us.
12 Jul 2012
June was not a great month for republicans who hate sport, as Euro 2012 and numerous royal-related programmes dominated the top programmes list.
19 Jun 2012
In the perfect example of 'losing the battle but winning the war', the final of ITV1's Britain's Got Talent achieved the highest ratings for May. Just under 12.6 million viewers stuck through the two-hour plus marathon on 12 May to see Pudsey the dancing dog go walkies with a £500,000 cash prize (oh and the chance to entertain royalty).
10 May 2012
A fairly non-remarkable month was dominated once again by the battle of the two major reality shows. Coming out on top was BBC One's The Voice UK, with the 14 April episode proving to be the most-watched single edition of the month with just under 12 million viewers.
02 May 2012
The Financial Times has announced that there is no turning back in its mobile strategy and that it will kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, having launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store in mid-2011.
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