Thursday brought a fairly underwhelming TV line-up for the nation’s prime time viewers with a mixture of lightweight fare failing to secure significant audiences.

Trinity Mirror lost almost 630,000 average daily browsers.

The second series of BBC One’s ultra-grim northern drama, Happy Valley (9pm), came to an end last night in an expectedly bloody, traumatising and bleakly funny fashion.

Monday night saw daring adventurer/jobbing TV presenter Davina McCall take on another audacious challenge as her bizarrely conceived four-part show continued on ITV

Despite a deluge of live sports coverage on offer, the past weekend’s TV saw the usual suspects clamber their way to the top.

The second instalment of the sophomore series saw the show throw caution to the wind and delve into full Morse mode.

For the fifth week in a row BBC One has claimed Tuesday night glory.

Once again BBC One unleashed its late-in-the-game super weapon Call the Midwife (8pm) on the viewing public last night.

Titles like Death in Paradise and Midsomer Murders might be a bit too high-concept for the general viewing public.

So far this short year, the TV schedule has already welcomed back an abundance of familiar police procedurals, with last night adding another entry.