Sunday brought a surprise reversal of fortune as The X Factor Results (ITV, 8pm) bared its teeth and furiously fought its way past its rival on BBC One.

Although, viewers were probably more gripped to see the aftermath of Chas and Paddy’s sweaty and ungodly love liaison.

Last night brought the grand finale of the gruesome and fun throwback to Hammer horror and improved slightly on last week’s audience.

It’s a battle that’s been brewing in the air for quite some time but last night finally brought the ultimate smackdown between the UK’s less popular soaps.

The ‘ground breaking’ show saw a real life couple runt away in a cube in the middle of a studio, clean themselves off and then chit chat with Mariella Frostrup and some sex experts (god help us all) about the grimy details.

An impressive 42% watched as Claudia Winkleman took on auto cue reading responsibilities from Bruce Forsyth, resulting in the weekend’s biggest audience.

Wednesday night saw both flagship BBC channels tick a box off the broadcaster’s remit as they ushered in a late evening of pure and unabashed patriotism in order to prop up the population with a warm fuzzy feeling.

Although only 6.8 million viewers tuned in for Tuesday’s fun festivities on EastEnders, it proved enough to defeat solitary soap rival Emmerdale (ITV, 7pm) along with any of the 9pm offerings.

According to data recently released by online measurement company Nielsen, August brought a small increase to the UK’s digital universe. A total of 40.9 million people across the country used the internet

After three mind-blowing weeks of staged and stilted conversation in Clapham’s very own social petri dish, last night the purveyor of chicken-like substances slammed its shutters to the viewing public.