| The Apprentice, BBC1, 9pm | So it was Anita with TV's Most Unfortunate Face who endured the series' first taxi ride of shame last week. Who's for the chop now? Tonight, the remaining 14 have to set up a catering service for City workers. Rocky, a sandwich chain owner in real life, steps up to be project manager of the boys' team. Yasmina, meanwhile, takes charge of the girls. She claims to be a restaurateur, but we'd have thought coming from a family of polygamists (if the News of the World is to be believed) provides more relevant experience for rustling up mushroom vol-au-vents for 500. Bizarrely, the boys decide their food will be more appealing if they serve it wearing togas. 'Cause all those spotty/hairy/moley backs are really appetising, right?
| | Queens Of British Pop, BBC1, 9pm | Why do people insist on comparing Duffy to Dusty Springfield? Apart from being blonde and having sumptuous production, there's no similarity at all. Dusty is one of the 12 female stars who "helped shape British music" according to this workmanlike two-part doco. This is the only ep you need to catch as it has the greatest stars, focusing on Dusty, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux. Good talking heads too - Jarvis Cocker, Martha Reeves and John Lydon. Next week moves onto the 80s to the modern day and features Geri Halliwell (!) and true Brit Kylie.
| | Obvious April Fool, Various Media Outlets | A programme about a mythical island, Katie Price becoming Prime Minister or a gameshow where people kill each other. Ha! Ha! Ha!
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| | FM, ITV2, 10.30pm | What is it with ITV putting their best original content on their obscure channels late at night? They stick this wittyish sitcom on after Gossip Girl and the absolutely woeful Celebrity Juice. The final episode of the series shows how it has grown from an uncertain start into a show that can actually make you laugh. Chris O'Dowd is blessed with a comic presence and the rest of the cast back him up manfully. Yes, it tries too hard - the swearing is too self-conscious - but the impressively consistent "cool" nature of special guests (Charlatans this week) is somehow admirable. Because of the nature of music, it will date horribly and with ITV spiralling down the tubes they won't make a second series, so you may as well catch this final episode.
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