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The Apprentice: BBC One, 9pm

As the field narrows, the remaining seven candidates are tasked with creating a premium pudding brand.

While one team gets in a trifle, it's up to the other team to prove they're more than just a soggy bottom.

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies: ITV, 9pm

Jason Watkins stars in this powerful contemporary parable depicting the media persecution of schoolteacher Christopher Jefferies.

When Joanna Yeates goes missing, media suspicion falls on her landlord Jefferies, changing his life indefinitely.

The Newsroom: Sky Atlantic, 10pm

In 'Oh Shenandoah', Will continues to conceal the name of Neal's government source despite the repercussions.

Elsewhere, Jim and Maggie try to make the best of being stranded at a Russian airport by trying to secure seats on a Cuba-bound flight in the hope of interviewing one of its high-profile passengers.

The Strain: Watch, 10pm

In the season finale, Eph and Fet...

The British media has not covered itself in glory in recent years, but one particularly unpleasant case was that of former teacher Christopher Jefferies.

Arrested for the murder of landscape architect Jo Yeates in December 2010, Jefferies's name was dragged through the mud by several newspapers before he was released without charge.

Eventually, and with the help of those who stood by him, Jefferies accepted substantial libel damages from eight newspapers.

Earlier this year, Digital Spy spoke to Call the Midwife and Sunny Afternoon actor Ben Caplan, who plays a key role in ITV's upcoming dramatisation of the story, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies .

"I play a character called Charles Chapman who was a pupil of Christopher's when Christopher was an English teacher at Clifton College in Bristol," Caplan explains.

"It's based on a real-life character who looked after Christopher's PR once he decided to go for the journalists who...

Actor claims David Cameron has watered down Leveson recommendations beause he is 'terrified of press barons'

Hugh Grant has said that talks to make parliament's royal charter on press regulation more palatable to newspaper groups are a "betrayal" of promises made by the prime minister to victims of press abuse.

Grant, a supporter of Hacked Off which campaigns for stronger press regulation, said that the prime minister is "terrified of press barons" and ignoring the plight of victims.

"The victims of press abuse, among whom I do not include myself, people l like the McCanns or the Dowlers or Christopher Jefferies, consider that any further compromise would be a betrayal of the promises made by the secretary of state and above all by the prime minister to them," he said, speaking on Radio 4's Today programme. "The prime minister is now betraying those victims and betraying his own promises."

Grant...

Today's extract from the book After Leveson* is by the journalist, and journalism lecturer, Natalie Peck. She considers Lord Justice Leveson's deliberations on privacy

The discussion of privacy, as both a concept and a human right in relation to press intrusion, was a central element to the Leveson inquiry's hearings.

In philosophical and legal literature, privacy has been likened to an "elusive status" and "murky conceptual waters". Many academics, journalists, legal writers, lawyers and judges have tried to define privacy, but no single definition is agreed upon.

Lord Justice Leveson examined, but never lingered, on the definitional problems of privacy. His focus lay in uncovering the "dark arts" of journalism and in hearing the evidence of those who had been affected by press intrusion.

The judge's report steers clear of recommending an extension of the civil law to protect individual privacy. The action centres instead around the formation of a...

In this second extract from After Leveson, a book edited by John Mair, a former Sunday Mirror editor and News of the World deputy editor airs his grievances about the Leveson process. Paul Connew explains why he believes the Leveson process was flawed and revealed how he came to discover that he too was a victim of phone hacking…

The setting up of the Leveson inquiry wasn't just a blatant example of political expediency, it was a disastrous PR strategy seized on in a blue funk moment of political panic.

Yes, there was a tsunami of public revulsion over the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone by the News of the World, as revealed in July 2011 by Nick Davies and The Guardian.

But was there a genuine and irresistible public clamour for a judicial inquiry into the "culture, practices and ethics of the British press" (Leveson's terms and conditions)? Probably not.