Wednesday night saw ITV air what could very possibly be the final episode of Law & Order: UK (ITV, 9pm) as the broadcaster last week announced that the show was to ‘rest’ following lead actor Bradley Walsh’s departure.

An audience of 1.2 million viewers decided to spend their Tuesday night in the company of the stress spreaders, resulting in a 6% share.

April brought a further decline to the UK’s online population after a slight rise in activity the previous month.

Monday night saw BBC One once again go down the charitable route by donating an entire hour and a half to an out-of-sorts retired footballer who needed just a little bit of public attention to keep him going.

The past weekend brought a smorgasbord of ‘event’ live television in an effort to tempt viewers away from the unseasonally seasonal weather.

Coverage of the Live International Football game started at 7:30pm, with the action from sunny Florida (beats Wembley) kicking off at 8pm.

Thursday night saw Channel 5 unveil its latest grand pageant of moral decay as the granddaddy of all gutter-scrapping reality shows, Big Brother (9pm), got underway.

Tuesday night brought the finale of writer Sally Wainwright’s latest successful drama Happy Valley (9pm), which once again secured the biggest audience in the prime time spot for BBC One.

Monday brought the latest devastating death blow to long-suffering fans of Game of Thrones (9pm) as the brutal fantasy show’s successful fourth series continued on Sky Atlantic.

After ITV treated the lucky television-viewing nation to an entire week of 1.5 hour shows, Saturday finally hinted at some light at the end of the tunnel as all the hopefuls were whittled down to the final ten.