As news of Baroness Thatcher’s death spread across the internet like wildfire yesterday afternoon, TV executives were frantic – hastily patching together televisual memorials for the viewing public.

Despite the combined force of Will.i.am’s stellar side quiff and the Eleventh Doctor’s whimsical horseplay, the day’s biggest hit came in the form of the bright and shiny commercialism of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV).

The second series of gangsters’ moll drama, Prisoners’ Wives (BBC One, 9pm) came to an early end last as comeuppances were dealt out with adequate brutality.

The overcrowded world of police procedural dramas last night welcomed the return of two popular crime fighting faces to the midweek evening schedule.Even though it felt like that last series of Scott & Bailey (ITV, 9pm) had just kicked off, it has in fact been a whole twelve months since the emotionally weathered lady cops… Continue reading TV Overnights: Sunita’s dramatic exit pulls in 8.5m for ITV

Tuesday night saw 8pm transform into the new prime time as the BBC launched a new vehicle into rough seas of twee television programming. Attempting to capture lighting in a bottle for a second time was BBC Two with The Great British Sewing Bee.

Easter Monday treated viewers to a televisual miracle as the BBC saw fit to resurrect a familiar face, as an innocuous detective was let loose from his tomb of seclusion.

Last night saw viewers finally wave goodbye to Lucy, the vexed and bothersome spectre in ITV’s haunted drama Lightfields (9pm).

According to data recently released by digital measurement company Nielsen, the UK’s online audience is at its lowest level for almost a year.

Despite harsh weather sweeping across the country people turned away from the Internet following the post-Christmas slump.

The BBC’s descent into ‘tough’ urban programming continued with Tuesday evening bringing even more suffering for the Butcher family, as down-trodden matriarch Bianca decided to shop her son Liam to the fuzz.

Monday night saw small town crime thriller Broadchurch (ITV, 9pm) continue its confident stride through Monday’s prime time slot as the European-influenced slow-burning drama reached the halfway mark.