Crisis Command, Tuesday nights, BBC2

Viewers can play along with the programme. By the end of the programme you will know whether you are a potential Prime Minister or whether the nation would be better off without your help.

The three proven decision-makers actually fared terribly, allowing a hijacked commercial flight to crash into the Houses of Parliament (thank you CGI dept), the entire underground rail network to break down and flood (causing thousands more deaths) and chaos at Waterloo after two bombs went off - proving just how difficult it really is to be a minister in times of such crises I guess. Great concept, well executed. I found it very easy to become immersed in the sense of it being a real situation and the whole 'well what would YOU do' format. Naturally they used real news anchors to report the unreal incidents furthering the illusion along with some decent CGI depicting the scenes of destruction (not distasteful as in we only ever saw the aftermath) - harrowing nonetheless. Having failed miserably, making only two correct decisions out of the seven put to them the participants gave their conclusions over the credits Weakest Link with the most arrogant one 'cleverly edited' so that his comments only addressed his own belief that he still felt he could do the job (despite permitting a known hijacked airplane to progress over London skies before plumetting into Parliament) - yikes.

Those three people were rubbish! Arrogant entrepreneur, Barrister with no common sense, "corporate responsibilty expert" without much of an opinion on anything! (okay i'm only chuffed because i got most of the answers right)

I don't know how the next episode will fare though - i mean, they have pretty much used up most of the possible disaster scenarios in one go!

discussed it with my colleagues at lunch and we all agreed how stupid it was to believe a hijacker who said he wanted to land at Heathrow and for his demands to be met. mainly because there doesn't seem to be any logic for him to go to Heathrow - the plane would land as normal and not cause traffic problems - only the passengers would be at risk, so why Heathrow? chillingly it seemed the correct thing to do was to shoot the plane down, even before it's confirmed that the plane has definitely been hijacked :(