Despite the balmy climate enjoyed by the UK over the past few days, the weekend’s TV schedule provided enough heavy hitters to entice healthy audiences back towards their sofas.
ARCHIVE ▸ Niall Johnson
Yesterday’s unusually seasonable weather saw viewers across the UK ignore their TVs en masse, with last night’s premier televisual options failing to make much of an impact.
A quiet evening of television combined with a schedule change saw BBC One’s seemingly permanent show MasterChef secure the 9pm audience with its over familiar formula providing some comfort for prime time viewers.
Tuesday night saw the return of Kay Mellor’s pregnancy drama In the Club (9pm) secure the prime time slot for BBC One, despite nearly an overdue wait of almost two years.
Managed to secure the weekend’s biggest audience before its competitors were even out of the gate
The third series of BBC Two’s thrilling Line of Duty (9pm) came to a typically dramatic close last night.
Feverish viewers were forced to wait an entire week to find out which odd couple would be crowned king and queen of the guarded transportable home community.
Monday night saw Channel 4 return to The Island with Bear Grylls (9pm) as viewers caught up with the aftermath of that fall while the remaining survivors continued to starve for our entertainment.
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