Wednesday night saw the return of everyone’s favourite rogue agent, bringing havoc to the streets of London.
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Happy Valley (9pm) saw Sarah Lancashire’s bruised and broken copper, Catherine Cawood, spend an hour of prime time telly flitting between looking haunted, rattled and damaged.
At 9pm on ITV was the second part of Prey, best described as a procedural Bourne-type thriller set in Manchester and starring John Simm.
The Broadchurch-esqe drama from Walford was Thursday’s most watched show, as friends and family of Lucy Beale slowly started to uncover the truth about her life before her demise.
Last night BBC One’s Panorama (9pm) helped traumatise the midweek prime time audience with its latest shocking expose on some particularly worrying care facilities.
BBC’s Breakfast (6am) show somehow managed to remain unsullied by the flashy commercial experience on the other side.
In place of a straight-laced Anna Ford and David Frost, viewers were instead treated to a line-up of friendly chit chat, news and reassuring facial expressions.
On Channel 4, Lester Nygaard’s (Martin Freeman) world continued to close in around him as an idealistic young cop started to poke around the recent deaths in the sweet little Minnesota town featured in Fargo (9pm).
The second episode of Parking Mad perched itself right on the front lines of the great parking war – which apparently is West Bromwich, Croydon and Selby.
Wednesday night saw BBC One’s latest short-lived period drama, Jamaica Inn (9pm), come to a crashing end after three consecutive nights of refined gothic melancholy.
