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After lulling viewers into a comforting sense of familiar calm for four weeks now, last night’s trip to Downton Abbey (10pm) had a deliciously nasty and grotesque surprise in store for fans.

September was a strong month for commercial broadcasters, with revenues up across the board.

For the second night in a row Lord Alan of Sugar and his band of marketing mercenaries stormed the 9pm slot for BBC One, with the sophomore episode of The Apprentice giving viewers an unprecedented twist.

Wednesday night brought the eleventh series of cringe-powered reality show The Apprentice (BBC One, 9pm) to the nation’s screens, as another hoard of buzz-word spouting ‘professionals’ entered Lord Sugar’s arena.

Whatever the reason for the shock departure of the BBC’s director of TV – and there could be many – it brings to attention a much bigger danger facing the Corporation.

Just in case there wasn’t enough miserable and slow burning post-Killing police procedurals littering up the TV schedule, last night saw BBC One attempt to squeeze in one more Scandinavian-influenced bleak-fest for good measure.

The BBC’s director of television, Danny Cohen, is to leave the Corporation after eight years to pursue “a new leadership challenge”.

Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings mobile measurement has rolled out across five new countries – the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Australia – with Brazil set to launch by the end of the year.

Despite going head to head, BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing (7:15pm) still managed to secure an audience of 8 million viewers, although being 45 minutes long probably helped.

Three days after BBC One’s long-running cold case drama New Tricks finally came to an end, last night saw ITV début its own take on the haunted-copper-solving-old-crimes format with Unforgotten (9pm).