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Last night’s trip through Norfolk’s past made Mary Berry cry, not once but multiple times.

Just one night after BBC One’s successful lady-focused drama In the Club wrapped up, Wednesday saw ITV take the mantle of strong female-led prime time programming with the return of Scott & Bailey.

Tuesday night’s prime time entertainment brought one final terrifying labour-related shriek as the brooding ladies of In the Club (BBC One, 9pm) had to wrap up their dramatic and disastrous personal lives.

A total audience of 5.5 million viewers tuned in for the three and a half hours of coverage, resulting in a 26% share.

Sunday brought the dawn of yet another long-running gaudy reality show as Sir Bruce Forsyth stopped by the inauguration of Strictly Come Dancing.

Now that everyone’s calmed down and recovered from the outrage sparked by the non-event of last week’s Baked Alaska tragedy, last night meant it was safe to return to the white tent of dreams.

The enthusiastic ‘documentary’ wasn’t for fans of unbiased thought; instead Harry at 30 (8pm) spent an entire hour ramming home the opinion of what a super, well-rounded bloke he is.

Professional cheeky chappy family man Jamie Oliver was back fronting a new series, free of preachy messaging and now with 90% more family participation.

Saturday night brought a scheduling clash of astronomical proportions as an eternally youthful old man and his irritating companions went on a hunt for intelligent life in our galaxy.

Thursday night saw Mrs Brown’s Boys’ ‘funny man’ Brendan O’Carroll brought back to the streets of Dublin as the comedian was the latest celebrity to sign up for the public therapy session.