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HIS NEW SHOW

In his new six-part documentary,

Neill, 72, retraces the route taken

across the Southwest Pacific by

British explorer James Cook 250

years ago. Visiting the likes of Tahiti

and Hawaii, he explores the cultures

of the islands and discusses Cook’s

controversial legacy with local

people. ‘I took a year off acting for

this adventure,’ says Neill, who

lives in New Zealand. ‘I wanted to

understand what Cook’s arrival

meant to indigenous people. It

was very moving for me at times.’

A familiar face

appearing in a new

show this week

Look

Who’s

Back...

Pacific with Sam Neill

NEW Sunday, History HD, 9pm

Sam Neill

Neill’s breakthrough

role was opposite

Judy Davis in My

Brilliant Career

(1980). He played

Damien in The

Final Conflict (1981)

and later auditioned

to play James Bond,

but lost out to Timothy Dalton.

He went on to win leading roles

in the films The Piano and Jurassic

Park (both in 1993). His TV roles

include real-life spy Sidney Reilly in

Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), C ardinal

Thomas Wolsey in The Tudors

(2007) and cop Chester Campbell

in Peaky Blinders (2013-2014).

Neill visits the

Pacific islands

Karren Brady

joins the

safari tour

1980

fired

All

up!

As Lord Sugar

seeks his new

apprentice, meet

the candidates

heading to

South Africa...

The wheelie cases are packed, CVs

submitted, and trite phrases and

self-important personal statements

rehearsed. It can only mean one

thing... The Apprentice is back!

As the series begins this week,

Lord Alan Sugar gears up to select

a budding entrepreneur worthy

of his £250,000 investment. But

before anyone is hired, the new

candidates must attempt to outdo

each other in a series of tasks – and

avoid being fired in the process.

Keeping Lord Sugar abreast of

proceedings once again are his

closest confidants – eagle-eyed

Karren Brady and Claude Littner.

Here, Littner, 70, shares tales

from the new 12-part series...

Are you excited by the new

series? I’m very keen to watch it.

Obviously I know what happens,

but it’s still a joy to watch. The

editing is genius – the way they

take thousands of hours of film

and manage to encapsulate the

characters and the key points in

every single task is wonderful.

They don’t miss a trick.

The show is filmed in just three

months. Do you find that pretty

stressful? Yes, it’s both stressful

and time-consuming, but we

actually have a few laughs with

the fantastic crew, which is really

welcome. There’s obviously lots

of tension for the candidates,

but not for us. It’s always fun.

How do you and Karren always

seem so calm and unruffled? It’s

just exhaustion, really. After weeks

of getting up at 4am and getting

home at 11pm, everyone’s pretty

much worn out at the end of the

series. But the idea is not to show

the strain. I always think week one

and two are a breeze, but by week

three I’d love to have a lie-in. The

4am starts are worse for Karren,

because she has to get up even

earlier to do her hair. Fortunately

I don’t have that problem.

NEW REALITY

The Apprentice

Wednesday, BBC1 HD, 9pm

This week on TV