WEDNESDAY 22 MARCH
Documentary
The Apprentice
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 6087
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described
5/12
I'm starting to wonder if Sir Alan Sugar's whole career has been an attempt to shrug off the meaning of his surname. Has there ever been a man less sweet? This week he gets the teams to dream up an advertising campaign, film it and edit it in a couple of days, then complains when the results look ropey. What did he expect, Brokeback Mountain? In fact, both teams do a pretty good job, though you'd never know it from Sir Alan Bile. Of course, his operatic grumpiness is part of what makes this programme unmissable. That and the fiendish surprises the production springs on its poor guinea pigs - there's another nasty one tonight. But most of all it's the soap opera of survival played out between the rival candidates, which tonight gets cringe-makingly vicious.
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