True Beauty | The Apprentice | Wonderland ? The Kids Who Play With Fire | 24 Hours In A&E | Apples: British To The Core | Hoarding: Buried Alive
True Beauty
8pm, MTV
"From executive producers Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher ?": truly a mark of quality and integrity. Ten sexy people think they're in competition to be named America's most beautiful person, but little do they know, they're also being judged on their inner beauty while being secretly filmed. "I notice you have really beautiful teeth," says one contestant to another as they meet for the first time. Those who get low "beauty scores" fall apart and howl, "I am not ugly!" When a contestant is kicked out, their portrait is removed and put in a wheelie bin. Both hateful and superb. Julia Raeside
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC1
This week, the teams are asked to produce a "freemium" magazine, a high-end publication given away to readers as it is solely funded by advertising. One team opts for a painfully named over-60s mag, the other for a lads' mag with unfortunate taste in puns. Both are deliciously excruciating and make for an excellent boardroom showdown.
Rebecca Nicholson
Wonderland ? The Kids Who Play With Fire
9pm, BBC2
Anyone who's made it through to adulthood probably knows from personal experience that certain children are especially fixated on setting stuff alight. Indeed, it's estimated that children and teenagers start 50% of deliberately-set fires. But why? It's a question explored here via the stories of a trio of young people. Ten-year-old Liam sleeps on a charred mattress; 14-year-old Hulya repeatedly tries to torch her bedroom; while Ryan is "brazenly fascinated" by fire. This film also follows the work of fire service counsellors trying to change the youngsters' behaviour. Jonathan Wright
24 Hours In A&E
9pm, Channel 4
We're rarely short of snapshots of the NHS on TV, but there's something masterful about how 24 Hours In A&E tells its stories. Some are heartwarming, some devastating, but the thread running through them ? the heroism of staff at south-east London's King's College Hospital ? ensures that their tireless compassion gets equal billing to the high drama that accompanies emergency medicine. This week a man is treated after being stabbed in his home, and an alcoholic former international lawyer has an epiphany. Ben Arnold
Apples: British To The Core
9pm, BBC4
Apples are yesterday's fruit, right? We're all about the mangos and the dragonfruit now. Except wait till you hear this: every apple seed is different, which means that if you plant a pip from a Bramley apple, it probably won't grow into a Bramley tree; for that, you'd have to take a graft from an original Bramley tree, which means all Bramleys can be traced back to one mother Bramley tree in Nottinghamshire. Such knowledge makes this documentary gently gripping, as Chris Beardshaw celebrates the myriad varieties of British apple invented by Victorian horticulturalists, and laments how they've been usurped by a few mass-produced brands.
Sian Rowe
Hoarding: Buried Alive
9pm, Discovery Real Time
Chris "would rather stand on the corner bare-ass naked during traffic" than have people come into his house. Chris is a compulsive hoarder, terrified that his unwitting girlfriend will find out about his "stuff piled on stuff". It's an issue, certainly. Elsewhere, fellow hoarder Laurie sums up her attraction to clutter: "I have stuff. I'm not alone." Troubling. Ali Catterall
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/14/kids-who-play-with-fire
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