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After nine long months of living in a merciful Big Brother-free society, last night saw Channel 5 go and ruin everything by launching the first half of a summer-long plan to infest the national’s tellyboxes.

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Monday night saw Benefits Street (9pm) finally return to Channel 4, albeit this time in a much cuddlier, more saccharine form.

Last night saw BBC One offer up a little bit of Sunday night glamour as the beautiful and (relatively) famous descended for the ultimate night of industry self-congratulation that is The British Academy Television Awards (9pm).

As expected, viewers tuned to BBC One in droves to see never-ending clips of people putting paper into boxes as well as the bevy of last-minute campaign attempts from the party leaders.

On the eve of today’s General Election Channel 4 gave the nation a horrifying glimpse of a leaderless and futile society where citizens are consigned to lay around and waste away instead of helping themselves.

Six months after Channel 4 wrapped up its last ‘hilarious’ stab at police dramedy, last night saw the broadcaster tentatively return to familiar territory with a sharper and nastier take from the mind of Shameless’ Paul Abbot.

Despite the bank holiday Monday, yesterday’s TV schedule was mostly business as usual with just an old-school ‘sporting’ tournament and a sombre remembrance giving some reprieve from the usual start-of-week soaps, news and docs.

Wednesday night saw one of the country’s best-loved stand-up comedians dive back into the realm of sitcoms as Peter Kay’s Car Share (9:30pm) pulled in a pretty impressive audience for BBC One,.