Bad news resulted in good news for ITV1 last night as Coronation Street (7:30pm) attracted Monday’s largest audience. 8.9 million viewers tuned in to see the regulars down the Rovers Return (busy for a Monday night) learn that Betty Williams had warmed up her final hotpot and shuffled off her mortal coil.

On Saturday Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1, 8pm) scored an average audience of 9.6 million viewers while The Voice UK (BBC One, 7pm) fared better with an audience of 10.7 million, making it only the second week the BBC One singing competition actually beat Simon Cowell’s variety show (in terms of overall ratings).

Walford was in mourning last night as the day of Heather’s funeral finally came around, securing Thursday’s biggest audience for BBC One and a 36% audience share.

Last night’s instalment of The Apprentice (9pm) attracted the biggest audience of the evening for BBC One, grabbing a 29% audience share.

Lottery drama The Syndicate pulled in the biggest audience in last night’s 9pm slot, scoring a 22% audience share for BBC One.

On ITV1 the Titanic witnessed a devastating loss; in the three weeks since its debut, the programme has lost 3.7 million brave souls.

The Apprentice earned the highest amount of viewers on Wednesday night, scoring a 26% audience share for BBC One at 9pm.

It was Denise’s time to shine in The Syndicate last night, when our unlucky-in-life protagonist realised that money can’t buy you happiness, or even a decent make-over.

Over on ITV1 Scott & Bailey were knee deep in an investigation in which they tried to solve the case of the missing 1.4 million viewers.

As usual, Friday night was all about the soaps with Coronation Street offering viewers a double bill and EastEnders getting into the weekend party mood. The first episode of Coronation Street (ITV1, 7:30pm) managed 7.7 million as the salon situation escalated and David Platt stepped up his legal game, securing a 38% audience share.