Finally, after four long weeks of hard drinking, rage-venting and generally sitting about on the sofa, Tuesday night saw the nation’s football fans edge closer to the endgame.
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Monday saw TV viewers being treated to a second consecutive football-free day, with normality returning for a short while as the nation’s top soaps battled it out for ratings dominancy.
BBC Two kicked off a highly ambitious new series, bagging Maggie Gyllenhaal for the lead role for the political thriller The Honourable Woman (9pm).
For only the second time since the FIFA World Cup 2014 kicked off three weeks ago, Wednesday brought a football-free schedule and allowed TV viewers a short but merciful return to programming normality.
It was BBC One’s responsibility to bear the brunt of Tuesday’s FIFA World Cup 2014 entertainment.
Despite former England manager Glenn Hoddle mistaking the North African team for media network Al Jazeera, an average audience of 6.3 million viewers managed to follow the game.
Despite a lot of drizzle and rain, the past weekend played host to a number of iconic outdoor activities which were thankfully all available to watch from the comfort and safety of the TV set.
While the 7pm episode didn’t exactly manage to bring in an impressive audience, 5 million viewers and a 28% share was enough to secure Thursday’s biggest audience.
As always, the trip to Weatherfield secured Wednesday’s biggest audience and bagged a 34% share.
Tuesday night saw the UK’s football-mad population gather around their TVs in the vain hope that Roy Hodgson’s England team would bow out of the FIFA World Cup 2014 tournament in a heroic blaze of glory.