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.
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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.
Raymond Snoddy reports on this year’s International Broadcasting Convention – where all anyone wanted to do was talk about Netflix.
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.
The two-year rights deal with NFL will see the BBC show live coverage of all three International Series games at Wembley, as well as the world-famous Super Bowl.
Tuesday night saw ITV offer up the majority of its evening schedule to the patriotic and football-inclined as the English team faced off against a cluster of mountain-dwelling foes in the latest Euro 2016 Qualifier (7:15pm).
