Winter is coming… But sadly we’ll have to wait until 2019 for the final series of Game Of Thrones.

In the meantime, fans of compelling drama involving shifting loyalties, sudden reversals of fortune and the ongoing battle between fierce rivals (the BBC and an increasingly confident commercial sector) can sit back and enjoy Music Week’s RAJAR analysis. Admittedly, there are no fire-breathing, giant reptiles to liven up the statistics for Q3 – at least not since Red Dragon rebranded ...