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C4, 8pm SCOFFING sprouts in the summer, drinking birch water, varnishing your eyebrows and poking around for a Pikachu. When you look back at some of the biggest trends of 2016, it’s enough to make you wonder what on earth we were thinking?
In this stat-filled doc, retail guru Mary Portas investigates how Brits spent £364billion this year.
And it seems that what we bought speaks volumes, with national events having a massive impact on our shopping trolleys.
When it was the Queen’s 90th birthday, sales of party food, bunting and bubbly rocketed. Some royal fans were even buying Corgi-shaped cakes.
And when Leicester City won the English Premier League, the area reported an increase in sales of blue cars – the team colour.
Meanwhile, Lean In 15 fitness trainer and Instagram star Joe Wicks was responsible for everyone rushing out to buy tenderstem broccoli.
Mary gets an inside view on some of the year’s oddities, such as selfie make-up, and meets leading retailers, buyers and experts who try to answer the million-pound question: “Why did we buy that?” JONATHAN CREEK
BBC1, 9pm A SCARY mansion, a dark stormy night and some creepy music – it all sets the tone for this spooky one-off mystery.
It begins with the tale of a local legend about a 19th-century sorcerer called Jacob Surtees, who would summon the powers of hell to terrorise the victims at his home, Daemons’ Roost.
But it’s just a load of Victorian hokum, right? Perhaps not. Years later, veteran horror movie director Nathan Clore (played by Ken Bones) is languishing in the house at death’s door. And now he