After a tough April for commercial terrestrial channels, May witnessed a much stronger performance.
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The Daily Telegraph and the Guardian record small declines, while the rest of the quality daily market maintains its growth for the third consecutive month – plus more from the London and Sunday markets.
A host of solid month on month growth figures should be turning heads, with the Times, i newspaper and the Observer leading the charge.
There was an devastating curtain call for Walford’s reigning matriarch.
While most of Saturday’s schedule struggled to offer up anything resembling excitement, the evening did manage to bring an epic clash.
April was a tough month for the terrestrial channels, who all saw revenue fall compared to last year.
Thursday’s TV brought another evening of Paralympic sporting action, with BBC One’s coverage of the Invictus Games 2016 kicking off at 8pm before yet another one of those inspirational choir shows secured the 9pm slot.
In a genius example of meeting viewers’ needs and desires, last night saw commercial broadcaster ITV lock notorious rent-a-gob and indiscriminate shit-stirring Piers Morgan in a prison with dangerous female killers.
Monday night saw the sixth series of punishing death show Game of Thrones continue on Sky Atlantic, with the third episode in the current run continuing to outpace each previous outing.
Despite the balmy climate enjoyed by the UK over the past few days, the weekend’s TV schedule provided enough heavy hitters to entice healthy audiences back towards their sofas.