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After three weeks of grand old school opulence, plenty of awkward family relations and a lot of staff, last night brought a close to the short-lived but effective real-life drama of All Change at Longleat (9pm).

Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One, 9pm) exploded back onto the nation’s TV screens on Friday night in a camp fireball of pomp and glitz as 15 new hopefuls attempted to salsa, tango and foxtrot their way into viewers hearts.

Last night’s grand finale represented the ninth series of the celebrity version to air on Channel 5 in the past four years.

Five years after Coronation Street Live pulled one out of the bag for its 50th anniversary celebrations, yesterday evening saw ITV’s flagship soap at it again, delivering a hour of big shocks, solid acting and minimal mistakes.

Tuesday night saw Channel 5 provide a juicy chunk of fresh scandal for the baying tabloid press as the usually friendly post-show chit chat with Ryan Clark turned into a bit of a (new standard industry term) fracas.

August saw Great British Bake Off, X Factor and New Tricks all achieve high viewing figures.

Once again yesterday saw ITV claim some Monday glory with a double offensive of Coronation Street action taking the top two spots as the soap built up towards tomorrow’s very possibly ill-judged live episode.

Lower than last year’s series premier of 8.1 million viewers and the lowest series opener to date, proving that perhaps the time was right for creator Julian Fellowes to call it a day.

Last night saw Channel 4 air the second episode of its adrenaline-fuelled ‘reality’ show Hunted (9pm), as a new group joined the cause to escape the clutch of the hunters and their extraordinary powers of overacting.

The Sun’s website jumped by a massive 63% in just one month, reporting an impressive daily average of 1,289,922 browsers visiting the site in August.