It’s time to fire The Apprentice (Thursdays, BBC One, 9pm). I still like the show, it still gets laughs – but it’s been going so long that the format has lost credibility. It no longer even tries to pretend to be a serious competition. It’s a sitcom.
There’s Karthik Nagesan, this season’s face of capitalism made all the more unacceptable by a unibrow. You just know that he owns a signed copy of Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal. Jessica Cunningham has an unhinged laugh that says: “I’m doing fine. I’m living in my car, but I’m doing fine.” Courtney Wood probably thinks he’s the best-looking member of the cast because his mother told him so. Glaswegian Natalie Hughes was sacked in week two and asked who, if anyone, she liked. She replied: “I didnae learn all their names.” She also said that she’d never actually watched the show and was on the verge of jumping before she was pushed.
