For the first time since it reared its maggot-infested head on Sunday, last night brought the first real competition for the latest series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! (9pm).

After dominating for two days running, last night night saw rival broadcasters breathe a sigh of relief as a friendly international match pushed ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! out of the schedules for the night.

Monday night saw a brand new week of TV, peaking with the first proper night in the jungle for ITV’s desperate celebrities.

Friday night saw the UK’s most famous and semi-familiar faces gather together to use their heightened powers of self-promotion for the good of charity, as another night of annual Children in Need bizarreness got under way.

Wednesday night’s main event saw supposed capitalist overlord The Right Honourable Lord Sugar return with his hoard of overzealous minions as they gathered together for another round of daft marketing decisions.

Tuesday night saw James Nesbitt’s mission to maintain a perma-scowl and find his lost son continue, as gruelling drama The Missing (9pm) topped off a successful evening for BBC One.

The picture postcard 1950s-set crime drama opened up with 5.2 million viewers at the start of October and features a tortured vicar and a Gruff Geordie cop called Geordie, his partner in bromance and crime-solving.

9pm last night brought the eighth and final episode of Downton Abbey’s (ITV) fifth series which saw the Crawleys up sticks and head for the smoky and hedonistic metropolis of London.

Thursday night saw two ‘niche’ period dramas go head-to-head in a prime time confrontation, with both ITV and BBC Two offering up explosive series finales.

Last night brought the latest instalment from Alan Sugar’s uncomfortable comedy show The Apprentice (9pm), with the fifth episode continuing to expose all the remaining contestants for the clueless oxygen thieves that they are.