Terror on the Beach provided commentary and previously unseen footage from eyewitnesses who watched the horrific scenario play out at the loss of 38 lives.
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Wednesday night delivered a noticeably unspectacular night of televisual viewing opportunities with a repeat of ITV’s generic regional detective show Vera (8pm) limping across the finish line.
Tuesday night’s prime time fun saw not one but two final instalments of two very different shows about children, as Child Genius faced off against the brave troopers of Great Ormond Street for the third week in a row.
The first episode saw sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf jump head first into a world of excitable artistic debate while meeting some YOLO-type characters who were determined to change the stuffy conventions.
An audience of 6.5 million viewers tuned in to soak up the camp chemistry.
Yesterday saw Channel 4 deliver a dollop of nonsense for the third week running as the Twitter-baiting silliness of Married at First Sight (9pm) came to an end.
A little over 6 million viewers tuned in at 7:30pm to see Phil Mitchell confront the Beale’s about their highly dubious behaviour, only for mini-Norman Bates, Bobby, to come in with a classic golf club sneak attack.
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.
For the second consecutive month, ITV’s revenues were down on 2014, dropping -10.7% to almost £97m in June, whilst Channel 4 was up almost 30%.
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.
