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Monday night once again brought a bevy of FIFA World Cup 2014 action but only one singular game managed to make any kind of impact as the nation’s three favourite soaps managed to outperform the footballing frenzy.

The plethora of over-the-top on-demand TV businesses has been talked up as a threat to ‘traditional’ TV since the early 1990s, writes David Brennan. But maybe – finally – the threat is beginning to become significant…

With the weekend schedule cluttered with FIFA World Cup 2014 action, it was no surprise to see the much awaited début of the England team come out on top, even if the squad didn’t actually manage to defeat Italy.

From now, customers will start to see the ITV Player app automatically download onto their device as part of a phased roll out over the coming weeks, giving them access to content from all ITV channels and CITV.

Following a push last year to drive the take-up and usage of connected TV services, Sky has announced that more than half of its TV customers have now connected their Sky+HD box to this internet to access On Demand services.

Wednesday night saw ITV air what could very possibly be the final episode of Law & Order: UK (ITV, 9pm) as the broadcaster last week announced that the show was to ‘rest’ following lead actor Bradley Walsh’s departure.

European pay TV revenues are expected to increase by just 0.6% year on year in 2014 as ARPUs are hit by competition and subscribers move to double-play and triple-play bundles, according to Digital TV Research.

An audience of 1.2 million viewers decided to spend their Tuesday night in the company of the stress spreaders, resulting in a 6% share.

Monday night saw BBC One once again go down the charitable route by donating an entire hour and a half to an out-of-sorts retired footballer who needed just a little bit of public attention to keep him going.

The BBC and Channel 4 have lost a significant proportion of their younger audience over the last three years, according to new figures from BARB.