In all of the depressing and low-rent places to be given the irreverent documentary treatment by lazy producers so far, the dusty bookies of yesteryear have, miraculously, managed to escape the glare of prime time TV.
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With a fairly lacklustre line-up over the weekend, it was up to Sunday’s schedule to entice back all those viewers who had escaped their darkened living rooms for a life under the summer sun in the great outdoors.
Thursday night saw Channel 5 herald the trumpets and turn the hype dial all the way up to 11 as the 16th series of Big Brother finally came to an end of 66 expletive-filled days.
After exploring the lives of domestic cats, dogs, and human babies, ITV’s premier prime time pseudo-science show was back – this time unveiling the secretive and guarded world of identical twins.
Viewers tuning in to sample Tuesday night’s entertainment weren’t greeted with a huge variety of genres to choose from, with most of the output falling in to the relatively cost-effective genre of observational documentaries.
Monday night saw ITV’s brand new documentary series, Rookies, début to a robust audience which saw the youngling copper show snatch the 9pm time slot from its rivals.
According to UKOM data recently released by comScore MMX, the UK’s desktop-only online population continued to steady at 45.1 million unique visitors in the month of May.
Yesterday’s climatic confrontation between Serbian Men’s Singles title holder Novak Djokovic and Swiss usurper Roger Federer secured Sunday’s biggest audience.
Thursday night saw BBC One’s long running and unstoppable, slightly-famous-person-cooking show, Celebrity MasterChef (9pm), once again beat off its prime time rivals in an excited flurry of sweat, tears and innuendo.
Tuesday night saw the third series of BBC One’s cautionary soap opera The Syndicate (9pm) reach its suspenseful climax.