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While November was a fairly poor month for the majority of commercial broadcasters, Channel 4 recorded a huge increase in revenue.

The Times was up 3.4% last month, boosting its circulation by more than 13,000 copies – coupled with a 4.7% year-on-year increase to mark it out in an otherwise struggling market.

The Sun’s boost is even more impressive given the paywall was still in place for most of the month, suggesting stronger growth is yet to come.

Idris Elba was back for an extremely short fourth run for London’s top shelf moody copper, Luther (9pm).

Monday evening brought the nation back down to earth with a ‘quiet’ night of TV.

Just 8.2 million viewers tuned in to ITV to witness history being made as the 12th series of The X Factor (8pm) finally came to an end.

Following the Royal Variety Performance this week, yesterday saw BBC One pull together a slightly more credible line-up for the nation’s viewing pleasure.

ITV attempt to bottle lightning for the second time as the commercial broadcaster launched a another miniseries of last year’s well-received one-off chase drama Prey.

Yesterday saw ITV attempt to glam up a fairly gloomy Tuesday evening by gathering together the most mundane and inoffensive acts from across the UK’s entertainment spectrum as Jack Whitehall hosted The Royal Variety Performance.

Normality resumed on the nation’s TVs last night, with the post-I’m a Celebrity… landscape once again allowing the soaps to contend for ratings glory and leaving the schedule with much more divergent audiences.