There was plenty to chuckle at on TV this week.
That shot of the Queen shaking hands with Cameron at the Palace (you know, the pre-smile one that suggested she'd rather have been watching Holby City).
Those images of politics' very own Charles and Di awkwardly confirming their engagement outside Number 10.
But the sight that really made me snigger was property tycoon Nick Leslau pacing up and down a corridor like an expectant father as posh burger duo Roland and Miranda Ballard made their pitch to Waitrose in High Street Dreams (9pm, BBC1, 10 May).
Talk about a fish out of water! It's not that I don't like the idea of wide-eyed wannabes - this week Muddy Boots and the chilli sauce-making Singhs - being given a hand to realise their dreams.
And I totally get why perfume supremo Jo Malone is involved in this Mary, Queen of Shops meets Dragons' Den and The Apprentice affair she did launch her business from her kitchen table, after all. But Leslau? What's a well-fed, multimillionaire property bod got to offer by way of useful advice to a start-up food company?
Not a lot, it transpired. Aided and abetted by the equally clueless former Green & Black's boss William Kendall, the pair wasted no time leading Muddy Boots up the garden path.
The Ballards had been selling their fancy burgers at farmers' markets in clear vacuum-packed bags that would have looked at home on the shelves of Waitrose.
So where did Leslau decide to test the shopper's reaction? Spar, of course. Needless to say, its clientele didn't exactly appreciate that it's nice to be able to see bits of meat in a meat product.
The upshot was that the design agency ditched the original packaging for a bright green box with a tiny transparent window. And what was the only bit of Muddy Boots' presentation Waitrose didn't like? Yup, you guessed it. The packaging. Their customers like to see the product, you see.
Fortunately, it didn't spoil the party and Waitrose said it'd be delighted to work with Muddy Boots the first time it has sourced beef that's not from its normal supplier. Asda listed the Singhs' sauce too. It was all highly predictable, but gratifying nonetheless.
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That shot of the Queen shaking hands with Cameron at the Palace (you know, the pre-smile one that suggested she'd rather have been watching Holby City).
Those images of politics' very own Charles and Di awkwardly confirming their engagement outside Number 10.
But the sight that really made me snigger was property tycoon Nick Leslau pacing up and down a corridor like an expectant father as posh burger duo Roland and Miranda Ballard made their pitch to Waitrose in High Street Dreams (9pm, BBC1, 10 May).
Talk about a fish out of water! It's not that I don't like the idea of wide-eyed wannabes - this week Muddy Boots and the chilli sauce-making Singhs - being given a hand to realise their dreams.
And I totally get why perfume supremo Jo Malone is involved in this Mary, Queen of Shops meets Dragons' Den and The Apprentice affair she did launch her business from her kitchen table, after all. But Leslau? What's a well-fed, multimillionaire property bod got to offer by way of useful advice to a start-up food company?
Not a lot, it transpired. Aided and abetted by the equally clueless former Green & Black's boss William Kendall, the pair wasted no time leading Muddy Boots up the garden path.
The Ballards had been selling their fancy burgers at farmers' markets in clear vacuum-packed bags that would have looked at home on the shelves of Waitrose.
So where did Leslau decide to test the shopper's reaction? Spar, of course. Needless to say, its clientele didn't exactly appreciate that it's nice to be able to see bits of meat in a meat product.
The upshot was that the design agency ditched the original packaging for a bright green box with a tiny transparent window. And what was the only bit of Muddy Boots' presentation Waitrose didn't like? Yup, you guessed it. The packaging. Their customers like to see the product, you see.
Fortunately, it didn't spoil the party and Waitrose said it'd be delighted to work with Muddy Boots the first time it has sourced beef that's not from its normal supplier. Asda listed the Singhs' sauce too. It was all highly predictable, but gratifying nonetheless.
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