A cancelled train and the usual inefficent service from staff wearing 'Northern Rail' uniforms meant I missed a large chunk of the arrivals in the Big Brother house (C4, 9pm).
Just to be fair, I decided there was no point watching the last half dozen walk in - so I opted for the live feed later, but more on that in a bit.
As I don't watch the regular Apprentice programme any more, and just opt for the You're Fired character assassination on BBC 2 (more on that too in a bit) I fell into the British Soap Awards.
It's easy to sneer and jeer at events like this, not least because of the snobbery which exists in the acting world among those who don't work for soaps - a snobber I believe is the product of envy and perhaps the knowledge that they couldn't produce such a high standard of drama day in, day out.
The good thing about award ceremonies is that you can easily drop in and out of them, so perhaps Northern Rail should be on a retainer from ITV every time they show an awards ceremony.
Mixed in with the serious traditional categories were things like 'sexiest female', 'sexiest male', 'best villain' and 'best comedy performance.' Fortunatley, Emmerdale didn't win very much.
Hollyoaks, on the other hand, did win a number of individual prizes, and hopefully that will be enough for people to start looking on it as a 'proper' soap and not just a teen drama.
As I waxed on earlier this week, the acting is bloody good (most of the time) these days, and the writing of scripts is getting stronger by the weeks. Of course, the acting can always be improved upon, and maybe one to work on for next year will be the reaction if they do not winning the overall soap award - you're supposed to be pleased for the winners, not scowl and make bitchy comments! Still, it made a change from the norm!
Over at The Apprentice, Tre and Katie live to make a fool of themselves another week. As I said, I didn't watch the main programme, just Adrian Chiles's 'live' spin off on BBC 2. I was we'd see either Katie or Tre being interviewed as the fired candidate, but Katie didn't even make the boardroom shoot-out. Tre did, but he's obviously down in Sir Alan's book as a winner, because despite undermining the team leader again, he was given another chance.
Naomi Lay was the one to get the push this week, after not performing particularly well with their chance to to sell goods on QVC. I'm still a bit lost as to why she got the push - but she seemed good fun in the live show, not taking it too seriously.
As each week goes on, I fear fewer people are taking the programme seriously, and perhaps by the end only Tre and Sir Alan will believe anyone really cares anymore.
As for Big Brother (already 300 entries on Google News today) it appears to be finally taking its responsbilities seriously and seems to be trying to create a more fun, natural Big Brother - even if it really is Big Sister, with all female contestants.
Highlight of the night has to be Lesley, who apparently counts Prince Charles as a friend, who told the identical twins in the house that she was 'very annoyed that there wasn't a man in the house. I specifically asked for an old gentleman, who is rich and close to death.'
Maybe, just maybe, this one will be better!
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