In the all-important 9pm slot last night, BBC One decided to mimic its rival channels and gave us the first episode in a new series about hoarding – the silent killer.

Quaint and twee country soap Emmerdale (ITV, 7pm) signalled the start of Wednesday night’s top shelf content as the poor man’s Robert Downey Jr, Cameron, escaped another bullet in the nick of time.

Despite the fact that recent legal actions confirmed the show to be as transparently vacant as we all suspected, Tuesday night brought the brand new series of Lord Sugar’s desperate hunt for cringe inducing sound bites.

The working week kicked off in suitably dramatic fashion after three days of family films and desperate talent show auditions.

The UK’s online population weighed in at 42.4 million users for the month of March, according to data released by online measurement company Nielsen.

Thursday evening saw the soap war heat up, as the unspoken rule of head-to head avoidance, was once again ignored in light of the football.

Last night saw MasterChef (BBC One, 9pm) make another valiant effort to wrap the current series up but failed to actually get rid of any contestants.

After seven long weeks and 21 episodes of competitive cooking and countless ‘journeys’, Tuesday night finally brought exhausted viewers a promise of the closure with MasterChef: The Final Three (BBC One, 9pm).

Monday evening saw ITV venture into scary new territory as two fresh prime time sitcoms were released from the traps onto an unsuspecting audience.

Saturday night brought about the kind of showdown that keeps schedulers up at night, as ITV and the BBC’s big guns of helium-light entertainment went head to head.