For reasons which may become clear at a later point, let’s examine the state of the UK’s prime-time television. For the purposes of this examination, let’s concentrate on the mainstream, freely-available content (the kind you might receive using a digital set-top box from a location in the Midlands), on a randomly-selected evening – which just happens to be this evening. We’ll take hourly slices through the schedule to get a feel for what’s on, and we’ll do this in something like real-time.