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.
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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.
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.
Wednesday night saw The Great British Bake Off continue its confident stride towards prime time glory with the seventh episode seeing the sixth series go all Victorian as the bakers were challenged with some ‘classic’ recipes.
Last night saw Martin Clunes dour expression once again lock in the 9pm slot for commercial broadcaster ITV as the seventh series of Doc Martin continued in good health, despite taking a noticeable drop in popularity.
Friday night saw the return of gimmicky reality show Gogglebox (9pm), which came back for a sixth series while managing to net its biggest début audience yet.
Thursday night saw radical broadcaster Channel 4 once again push the boundaries of television by basing yet another semi-reality show on real people who are desperate to get on TV.
As if it was any surprise, last night saw The Great British Bake Off (BBC One, 9pm) outshine all the competition.