ITV attempt to bottle lightning for the second time as the commercial broadcaster launched a another miniseries of last year’s well-received one-off chase drama Prey.

Yesterday saw ITV attempt to glam up a fairly gloomy Tuesday evening by gathering together the most mundane and inoffensive acts from across the UK’s entertainment spectrum as Jack Whitehall hosted The Royal Variety Performance.

Normality resumed on the nation’s TVs last night, with the post-I’m a Celebrity… landscape once again allowing the soaps to contend for ratings glory and leaving the schedule with much more divergent audiences.

Thursday night saw ITV’s highly lucrative I’m a Celebrity… (8:30pm) edge closer to the end as yet another campmate exited the jungle, whittling down the original 13 candidates to a mere six in a lead up to Sunday’s grand finale.

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Yesterday’s edition of The Apprentice (9pm) saw Lord Sugar task his hopefuls into taking on a role perfectly suited to the candidates’ particular brand of forced smarmy charm – the London property agent.

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While the bizarre campaign against the residents of a desirable south London street stepped up a gear, audience interest actually dwindled.

Monday night saw Channel 4 launch a brand new documentary of a very different kind to its now-standard fly-on-the-wall approach, this time weaving together a tale of real-life crime solving in The Murder Detectives (9pm).

The past weekend saw both BBC One and ITV celebrate victories both modest and massive, with each side unleashing an arsenal of well-established crowd pleasers.