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According to research from IHS, set-top box shipments will increase by another 6% this year – set to reach almost 300 million by 2015.

Ye olden day shagathon, The White Queen (9pm) reached the half-way point, building itself up for its very epic climax in five weeks’ time. BBC One’s white knight of Sunday evening strode in on its HD horse, pulling in 3.6 million viewers into its web of political deviance and plethora of characters.

By 2020, it is predicted that almost half of all video viewing will happen outside of a legacy pay TV service or a television set, and will instead be via an app or application dedicated to a specific video service.

Digital cable on-demand TV revenues are forecast to rise by 41 billion between in the next six years to reach $2.77 billion, while satellite on-demand TV revenues are expected to grow to $1.79 billion.

Pay TV revenues were up 28.5% in 2012 compared with 2008 figures, with cable generating the highest revenues by platform – $87 billion.

Perhaps due to the weather, Thursday’s soaps were dealt a harsh blow by the God of popularity. The first episode of Emmerdale brought in a surprisingly small audience of 5.4 million viewers and – unusually for a double bill – the second visit to the Dales upped the ante with 5.5 million viewers and a 29% share.

Sky walk away with the some of the biggest stories of the opening weekend and will show 43 live Premier League matches by 1 December compared with BT’s 12.

Matches will be available for 53 countries across Europe and Latin America for free and streamed live via the ECB’s YouTube channel.

Last night’s midweek television saw the final five hopefuls of The Apprentice (BBC One, 9pm) face the ultimate challenge so far as they were tasked with not having some kind of mental breakdown on camera.

Liverpool versus Stoke City on August 17 will kick off the first of the matches to be shown on BT Sport, also including Spurs v Chelsea and Everton v Liverpool.