Last night saw BBC One bring an end to yet another series of emotional genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? (9pm) as stage legend and Vicious-enabler Frances de la Tour took her spin on the world’s gloomiest roller-coaster.
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Wednesday night saw the success of BBC One’s eleventh series of The Apprentice (9pm) continue as the carnival of nonsense upped sticks and went all continental, bringing the entire farce to French shores just for the hell for it.
Last night saw haunted and unstable London bobby River (BBC One, 9pm) return to TV screens in order to brighten up the nation’s gloomy Tuesday evening.
Monday night saw Channel 4 launch its latest ‘ground breaking’ documentary, with SAS: Who Dares Wins (10pm) delivering a giant dollop of shouty and sinewy alpha male aggression.
After lulling viewers into a comforting sense of familiar calm for four weeks now, last night’s trip to Downton Abbey (10pm) had a deliciously nasty and grotesque surprise in store for fans.
For the second night in a row Lord Alan of Sugar and his band of marketing mercenaries stormed the 9pm slot for BBC One, with the sophomore episode of The Apprentice giving viewers an unprecedented twist.
Wednesday night brought the eleventh series of cringe-powered reality show The Apprentice (BBC One, 9pm) to the nation’s screens, as another hoard of buzz-word spouting ‘professionals’ entered Lord Sugar’s arena.
Just in case there wasn’t enough miserable and slow burning post-Killing police procedurals littering up the TV schedule, last night saw BBC One attempt to squeeze in one more Scandinavian-influenced bleak-fest for good measure.
Despite going head to head, BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing (7:15pm) still managed to secure an audience of 8 million viewers, although being 45 minutes long probably helped.
Three days after BBC One’s long-running cold case drama New Tricks finally came to an end, last night saw ITV début its own take on the haunted-copper-solving-old-crimes format with Unforgotten (9pm).