MIKE WARD PREVIEW: The 56-year-old returns to Fred’s well-known match-making restaurant, hoping to make it second time fortunate.
Mike Ward (Picture: Specific)
Primark Vs John Lewis: Battle Of The Manufacturers, C4, 8pm
HAVE you ever tried procuring in a “store”? In case you’re not accustomed to the idea, it’s basically a constructing with doorways and home windows on the entrance and all types of pretty issues laid out inside – it could possibly be garments, it could possibly be cookware, it could possibly be candles, it could possibly be cauliflower cheese – any of which you’re allowed to select up and take dwelling with you to really preserve, as long as you give the good “store” individuals a few of your cash.
By no means more likely to catch on, you’re pondering? Method an excessive amount of of a palaver, when you’ll be able to merely go browsing at dwelling in your jim-jams, click on a button and have the identical merchandise delivered to your door inside 24 hours, the correct old school method?
Nicely, that’s the place you’re fallacious – a minimum of within the opinion of the individuals who run the favored retail chain Primark. In accordance with what presenter Kate Quilton tells us on this week’s Battle Of The Manufacturers, the Primark folks imagine procuring in a “store” may be very a lot the place it’s at in 2026.
They love the concept of attractive you into certainly one of these “outlets” of theirs (they’ve masses, they’re all around the “store”) with the intention to see for your self all the beautiful stuff they’ve on the market, all of which appears fairly bafflingly low-cost. Not simply see it, in actual fact, however contact it and even attempt it on. Aside from the cauliflower cheese, that’s. That’s as a result of Primark don’t promote cauliflower cheese.
You should buy their stuff on-line should you really feel it’s essential to, however they don’t precisely bust a intestine to encourage that, the best way their now surprisingly shut rivals, John Lewis, do. And should you do purchase a Primark factor that method, don’t count on them to deliver it to your private home. You’ll have to come back and decide it up from certainly one of their branches.
Two causes. Firstly, delivering to individuals’s doorways could be method too pricey for them. Their revenue margins aren’t practically as huge as John Lewis’s.
And second, should you come to certainly one of their “outlets”, you’re certain to purchase one thing else whilst you’re there, aren’t you? You gained’t give you the option to withstand. Their fluffy white slippers, as an illustration, are three quid a pair. Three quid! Critically!
Molly-Mae Hague, the influencer, raves about these. There’s a clip on this present of her doing that on TikTok.
I hope they’ve my measurement.
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Past Paradise, BBC1, 8pm
DI Humphrey Goodman clearly will get numerous satisfaction from his job. Every investigation units him a problem he relishes getting his tooth into. Even so, ought to he actually be crying “bravo!” and “glorious!” when he witnesses a poor chap collapsing proper in entrance of him, as occurs tonight, in circumstances that counsel somebody’s performed this man in? I’d have thought not. To be honest, the sufferer is a kind of freaky, gothic-style various Morris Dancers, sporting a very scary masks, so it’s not fully shocking. Humphrey getting confused, that’s. I’ve nothing in opposition to Morris Dancers.
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First Dates, C4, 10pm
Returning to Fred’s restaurant tonight is retired cop Kerry, 56. Kerry’s final date there was a humid squib (not like her starter, which I imagine was the damp squib; it’s actually highly regarded), however a minimum of she gained’t overlook it in a rush. “It was the worst date I’ve ever been on in my life,” she says. This, after all, units the bar good and low for the most recent man they’ve discovered for her, 56-year-old tennis coach Andy. Sitting on the bar with a gin, Kerry glances over at Andy when he strides in a couple of minutes later, resplendent in his natty mirrored shades. And her first impression? “Oh, God…” she mutters.
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