The Apprentice loses 800,000 viewers on Thursday night

The Apprentice viewers were clearly upset with Dan's firing in episode one, as it lost around 800,000 viewers for Thursday's follow-up.



However, it did still top the night overall outside of soaps, as Lord Alan Sugar's second candidate grilling brought in an average overnight audience of 5.52 million (25.9%) at 9pm on BBC One. You're Fired! was seen by 1.67m (10.1%) at 10pm on BBC Two.

Earlier, Watchdog appealed to 3.91m (19.2%) at 8pm, while Question Time intrigued 2.38m (23.3%) at 10.35pm.

BBC Two's Cradle to Grave concluded with a two-parter, amusing 1.32m (6.1%) at 9pm and 1.19m (5.6%) at 9.30pm.

On ITV, Paul O'Grady's For the Love of Dogs rose by 300k from last week to 4.24m (20.5%) at 8.30pm (235k/1.1% on +1), while Unforgotten dropped around 700k from its premiere to 3.87m (17.9%) at 9pm (274k/1.9%).

Channel 4's Amazing Spaces wowed 1.60m (7.8%) at 8pm (246k/1.2%), followed by the Hunted finale with 988k (4.6%) at 9pm (166k/1.1%) and First Dates with 971k (6.9%) at 10pm (99k/1.3%).

On Channel 5, Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways interested 1.02m (4.8%) at 9pm (102k/0.7%), while ITV2's Celebrity Juice entertained 653k (4.3%) at 10pm.