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ITV wins World Cup ratings battle with BBC in tournament’s first week

ITV had four of the five highest television audiences in the UK in the World Cup’s first week, topped by England’s 4-2 win over Croatia

The Guardian - UK

MindsEye’s salvaged Hitman DLC cuts Agent 47, and seemingly a good chunk of its staff, too

Sabotage continues.

Destructoid

I played the MindsEye mission about the alleged game saboteurs, and it sucks so bad

The mission is dull and witless, and the promised "evidence" of sabotage against developer Build a Rocket Boy utterly fails to materialize.

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MindsEye studio faces new legal action over employee surveillance software that workers' union alleges was 'recording individuals in their homes and without their consent'

The IWGB union says the software was removed in March, but BARB is refusing to disclose what data it collected.

PC Gamer

TV set is most popular way to watch YouTube in UK, study finds

Television outranks laptops, tablets and smartphones across all age groups, according to audience review

The Guardian - UK

Build A Rocket Boy dumpster fire flares up in exciting new ways as its co-CEO reportedly claims the 'guys who've been sabotaging MindsEye' have been identified—and will be demonized via an in-game spy mission

You can say and do all kinds of things when you're running a company.

PC Gamer

MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its 'most significant post-launch update' is now live and an expansion is coming later this year

None of this makes sense to me, but it's sure interesting to watch.

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MindsEye studio boss threatens legal action against YouTuber as co-CEO Leslie Benzies denies Epstein allegations: 'I have never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor have I ever visited his island'

The "cease and desist" demand was posted to the MindsEye Discord just minutes after Cyber Boi's video went live.

PC Gamer

As most TV viewers tune in via broadband, will 2034 signal the death of Freeview?

The aerial-accessed service has a fast-dwindling audience but when exactly to switch the platform off is proving highly divisive

The Guardian - UK

YouTube criticised after pulling out of UK TV audience measurement

Owner Google moves to block Barb data access months after allowing 200 channels to be monitored

The Guardian - UK

How The Traitors became the most-watched programme on UK television

An average audience of 14.9 million saw the final of The Celebrity Traitors in November 2025.

Evening Standard

YouTube may have surpassed the BBC in viewer share, but that’s not the whole picture – a media expert explains

News this week from the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB) that YouTube has surpassed the BBC in viewing share has been widely framed as a tipping point. Some read it as a final nail in the future of public service broadcasting in a platform-led age.

The Conversation

BBC officially surpassed in viewership milestone

IN FULL

The Independent UK

An opportunity or a threat? How YouTube rose and rose to overtake the BBC

YouTube has officially dethroned the BBC with its enormous British viewing figures, after surpassing ITV last summer

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The Independent UK

Celebrity Traitors is set for a record audience. How high could the ratings go?

The Celebrity Traitors has become the most-watched TV show of the year in the UK, even prior to its final episode. The first four episodes of the BBC One game show averaged 12.6 million viewers, based on official seven-day consolidated figures from Barb. The show's audience has shown a consistent…

Evening Standard

Celebrity Traitors final: How high could the ratings go?

Seven-day consolidated ratings of 14 or even 15 million is not impossible.

PC Gamer

The MindsEye fallout continues as axed staff allege crunch, mismanagement, and a total lack of direction: 'Leslie [Benzies] never decided what game he wanted to make'

"And it does mess with you. You really do start to see the morale go down, the little arguments starting to happen."

Destructoid

MindsEye devs drop a massive patch amid ‘relaunch’ efforts, but I feel no amount of updates will save this sinking ship

It's time we all moved on from this wreck.

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Destructoid

MindsEye devs’ CEO blames ‘sabotage’, vows to relaunch 2025’s worst game to date

The GTA killer's creator thinks it was unjustly killed itself, but that just seems like a copout.

GamesRadar

MindsEye review: "An uninspired and forgettable sci-fi action adventure that feels like a Netflix movie you watch while on your phone"

PC Gamer

MindsEye is set to launch next week, so it's probably not great that the studio's chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both resigned

The MindsEye saga gets weirder.

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #192: How reality TV and streaming has shaped 21st-century TV

In the second of our new miniseries looking back at the last quarter-century of pop culture, we chart the transformation of television since 2000

The Independent UK

Gavin and Stacey festive special among most watched shows this century

The final episode aired on Christmas Day.

Evening Standard

History-making events top chart of decade’s biggest TV audiences so far

The highest-rated broadcast on a single channel is England’s Euro 2020 semi-final victory over Denmark.

Broadcasting & Cable

Apple TV Plus Ponders Ad Support, Meets With U.K. Ratings Body

Talks come just weeks after Apple poached NBCU ad executive Joseph Cady

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