Having said all that, if they end another episode with a montage over Coldplay's "Fix You," I will never hate-watch The Newsroom again — I just won't watch it.

Four episodes into its ninth series, The Apprentice has settled into its role as the nation's favourite hate-watch. The 16 grasping nitwits who began grovelling for Lord Sugar's favour at the outset were loathsome even by the formidable standards established by the franchise, and this isn't the week they suddenly grow more likable.

Hatewatch, v, to watch something bad just to hate it (usually with friends): "The other day I was hatewatching Cashmere Mafia and I realized that the portrayal of gay men on those shows is not unlike the portrayal of African American mammies in films such as Gone with the Wind."