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Ammar Kalia, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall, Graeme Virtue and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: The Apprentice is back ... but who is getting fired first?

Suited and booted ... Lord Sugar and the new Apprentice candidates.
Suited and booted ... Lord Sugar and the new Apprentice candidates. Photograph: BBC/PA Wire

The Apprentice

9pm, BBC One

You can almost hear the theme music and visualise Alan Sugar’s pointed lofty finger just at the mention of its name: The Apprentice. Back for another season – its 15th – 16 suited-and-booted candidates once more waltz into the boardroom with their gargantuan egos, business jargon and wheelie bags in tow. For their first challenge, the purse strings have been loosened as the candidates are flown to Cape Town for a tourism-themed task. Of course, disaster and blazing rows ensue. Let the backstabbing commence. Ammar Kalia

Interior Design Masters

8pm, BBC Two

It’s the head-to-head climax of a reality contest that has delivered a suitable mix of tears, triumphs and questionable colour choices. Too many wry looks to camera from our host Fearne Cotton will be the first sign that an amateur designer is about to fall at the final, boldly upscaled hurdle. Jack Seale

Grand Designs

9pm, Channel 4

It was while recovering from leukaemia that the musician Toby Leeming came up with some radical ideas for building his own house; a five-building base, wrapped around an ancient oak in Suffolk, in which to recuperate and provide for his family. Can he create his dream home in just eight months, on a £530,000 budget? Ali Catterall

The Science of Sleep: How to Sleep Better

9pm, Channel 5

Power naps during a sleep-deprivation experiment ... The Science of Sleep
Power naps during a sleep-deprivation experiment ... The Science of Sleep. Photograph: Channel 5

With a whopping 30 million people in the UK affected by snoring, this new series, fronted by Gaby Roslin and Dr Amir Khan, takes some of our worst sleepers and puts them through a radical experiment to see if they can be cured. Tonight: night terrors and 48 hours of sleep deprivation. Night night. AK

City on a Hill

9pm, Sky Atlantic

As well as being set in the 1990s, this Boston crime drama harks back to an earlier age of prestige TV, all dense plotting and leisurely pacing. As this double bill eases season one past the halfway mark, scuzzy FBI agent Kevin Bacon is still having fun misquoting Macbeth and throwing around insults like “dryballs”. Graeme Virtue

Breaking Fashion

10.40pm, BBC One

Rising fast-fashion company In the Style is hoping to break the £1m turnover mark and 32-year-old CEO Adam is determined to succeed. The team collaborate with a duo of influencers, including Love Island’s Dani Dyer, to pull off two time-sensitive launches. A lesson on the fleeting influence money can buy. AK

Film choice

The dark heart … Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood.
Blood, sweat and black gold … Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood. Photograph: Alamy

There Will Be Blood, 7pm, AMC

Daniel Day-Lewis’s powerhouse performance is the dark heart of Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama of blood, sweat and black gold in 1900s California, his Daniel Plainview part obsessive monster, part loving father. An American epic that topped the Guardian’s 100 best films of the century list. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Rugby World Cup: New Zealand v Canada 10.45am, ITV4. Canada face the reigning champions, the All Blacks.

Championship Football: Barcelona v Inter Milan 8pm, BT Sport ESPN. Head-to-head from Barcelona’s Nou Camp.

Rugby World Cup: Georgia v Fiji 5.45am, ITV4. Pool D clash live from Japan.

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