The dawn of a brand new month brought the same familiar genres to Sunday night’s TV schedule with a cornucopia of easy-to-digest period dramas and family friendly rose-tinted looks at Britain.

Wednesday night saw the crème de la crème of popular musical talent take over ITV’s evening schedule as they descended upon London’s O2 arena for The Brit Awards 2015 (8pm).

Last night saw Channel 4 attempt to justify its existence with a sprinkle of contrived controversy and challenging ‘debate’ with two shows taking a look at the issue of immigration and integration in modern Britain.

After eight weeks of meandering and drumming up some intrigue, Monday night saw Broadchurch’s (ITV, 9pm) heavily criticised second series finally come to an end.

30 years to the day BBC One launched its own very distinctive brand of gritty and unglamorous soap drama, last night’s celebrations finally delivered a festival of payoffs and surprises for long-term fans of EastEnders.

All ABC-audited national newspaper websites enjoyed an impressive rise in users over January, with dominant newsbrand MailOnline enjoying the most remarkable increase, month on month.

For a second consecutive night, BBC One secured the day’s top spot with another little-bit live episode of EastEnders, as exhausted viewers became even closer to finding out who exactly took the jam out of Lucy Beale’s doughnut.

After 307 days of agonising mystery, misdirections and murders, last night saw long-suffering fans of EastEnders finally rewarded for their enduring loyalty with a partially live episode kicking off a ‘week of revelations’.

Monday night saw Channel 4 launch a brand new week of prime time television with a satirical dig at what’s probably the UK’s easiest current target, with UKIP: The First 100 Days (9pm).

Despite a little contained disruption from ITV, BBC One led Thursday night’s viewing with a sturdy and dependable line-up of an age-old soap and one of those patronising and mind-numbing consumer shows fronted by Gregg Wallace.