Sugar’s puffed-ups
Kel is improving in the hospital CORONATION STREET
STV, 7.30pm & 8.30pm AT THE hospital, the doctor reveals that Kel suffered a bleed on the brain but should make a full recovery.
The police quiz him about the attack but he makes out to them that he was jumped by strangers.
Meanwhile, Kevin is disappointed when his old friend Martine fails to show up for their date.
Elsewhere, Dev is concerned when Asha texts to say she’s got a date with a lad after school. She is then mortified when Dev wants to talk to her about boys. THE APPRENTICE BBC1, 9pm Lord Alan Sugar doesn’t like chancers, posers or brown-nosers. He doesn’t like liars, cheats, bulls **** ers or schmoozers.
Imagine then how he must feel when he clocks eyes on this next line-up of potential associates.
“Hunt or be hunted, this hunter always catches his prey,” declares one candidate.
Slightly less creepy than another, who brags: “If you cut me in half, ambition comes out of my blood.”
Elsewhere, Shahin gives himself the nickname “The Falcon” and reckons he and Lord Sugar could call their new business Shamstrad.
You do have to admire his creativity.
This may be the 15th series but the sheer audacity and arrogance of the puffed-up candidates never disappoints.
A business contest that will see one winner given a £250,000 investment and partnership with the billionaire tycoon, it’s also one of the funniest shows on television.
Lord Sugar can claim some credit for that, dishing out one-liners like an East End comedy sideshow. “You’re about as resolute as an empty crisp bag in the wind,” he tells one chancer.
The series hits the ground running, with the 16 hopefuls immediately flying out to Cape Town, South Africa, to sell and host tours. “It will be a piece of cake,” says Scarlett, who will probably be eating cake in a cab home within a fortnight.
As ever, two teams are followed around by an eagle-eyed Karren Brady and Claude Littner – Lord Sugar’s snitches. Expect to see some terrible decisions, plenty of “unprofessional squabbling” as Lord Sugar puts it, and – if you look hard enough – the odd elephant.