Andy Warhol’s America BBC Two, 9pm Francis Whately, he of the outstanding Bowie trilogy of documentaries, turns to an acquaintance of The Dame for this no-less-compelling new three-parter examining the life and times of the pioneering and endlessly divisive artist and provocateur.
Karren Brady and series one winner Tim Campbell (standing in for Claude Littner) look on with bemusement. The first task involves, yes, a marketing campaign, this one concocted for a cruise liner while onboard said ship. In the meantime, Lord Sugar is back with his finger, his catchphrases and the egomaniacs, incompetents and idiots he has handpicked as possible business partners. The Apprentice BBC One, 9pm If even Simon Cowell is throwing in The X Factor towel, it can’t be long before this mid-Noughties relic is given its P45. The series begins with a Whitby fishing family, a visit to the beautifully preserved town of Saltaire, Newby Hall’s fruit-and-veg show and, inevitably, a bit of steam locomotive action courtesy of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Our Great Yorkshire Life Channel 5, 8pm Another year, another Channel 5 excursion into God’s Own Country, this time taking in the full breadth of the county’s history and future. GTĭragons’ Den BBC One, 8pm Social media entrepreneur Steven Bartlett replaces the departed Tej Lalvani for this 19th series, and is faced with cheesemongers flogging an app, hair technicians, boffins toting gadgets and inventors with robots, all looking for investment. The ensemble is excellent, particularly Laura Checkley’s no-nonsense mother hen, and, while the drama doesn’t baulk at the threat, fear and intimidation inherent in prisons, nor does it deny the weird sense of community fostered in such institutions or the fact that there might be a better way to rehabilitate than locking everyone up. Rose’s first day features an improvised knife to a throat, contraband wildlife, a spice casualty, a prisoner transfer and a visit from the governor – as well as suggestions of a compromising past.
But despite being fresh on the job, she’s being woefully under-attended by her colleagues – not least by Leigh Henry (Nina Sosanya), the dedicated screw in charge of Longmarsh’s all-male C-wing. Our conduit is Rose Gill (Derry Girls’ Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), a smart, opinionated new recruit. Screw Channel 4, 9pm Sitting somewhere between Porridge and Jimmy McGovern’s Time, Rob Williams’s (The Victim) deft, incisive and often very funny new prison drama does for prison officers what No Offence did for the police, making deadly serious points with borderline absurd – yet wholly believable – set-ups and forcing us to confront another example of severe underfunding in public service.
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