Powering Britain (BBC2, 7.30pm)
IT takes an awful lot of work to keep our kettles boiling and our tellies ticking over, and even more so as we realise we must make every effort to leave behind fossil fuels as a source of our power. In this new series (although today’s report has previously been shown in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), Keeley Donovan meets some of those responsible for keeping the power flowing.
The Trump Show (BBC2, 9pm)
THE last in the series telling the inside story of the most extraordinary US presidency in recent times tells of Donald Trump’s fourth (and final?) year in office. It saw some remarkable events, from Trump inviting the Taliban to Camp David to suggesting buying Greenland – prompting no small amount of ridicule. But then even his tumultuous reign was overshadowed by something truly unprecedented: the Covid-19 pandemic, alongside Black Lives Matter protests.
The Apprentice Best Bits (BBC1, 9pm)
THE highlight of any Apprentice series is, invariably, the interviews episode, and this latest look back at the archive (in the absence of a new series this year) focuses entirely on that stage in the process. It’s then that the chaff has – supposedly – been discarded and we’re left with five capable professionals. Ahem. All of them have their business plans, although not all are well-thought-out – and some CVs contain outright lies.
Taskmaster (C4, 9pm)
THE move to Channel 4 of Dave’s flagship original comedy could have come at a better time – it’s hard to gauge like-for-like how successful the transition has been when the live audience has been removed. Still, Johnny Vegas, Richard Herring, Daisy May Cooper, Mawaan Rizwan and Katherine Parkinson make for a great cast of competitors this series, as they set about softening pasta, creating farm-related illusions and destroying garden arches along with other bizarre tasks in the name of comedy.
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