Shark Tank
Ten, 8.30pm
As a recent Fairfax Media investigation clearly showed, the investments made by the panel of successful business builders in the start-ups pitched by budding entrepreneurs on this reality series rarely go through. It really is all for show, which means you're left with a manufactured thriller where the sharks are essentially one-dimensional actors and the hopefuls are nervous dupes. CM
The Good Doctor, Korea
The Good Doctor: Korea
SBS Viceland, 10.25pm
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If you're a fan of Seven's American medical drama The Good Doctor, or you're keen to sample Asian television drama, then the original version of The Good Doctor, which aired across South Korean in 2013, may well be of interest.
The American remake, with Freddie Highmore as Shaun Murphy, a young autistic savant training to be a surgeon, has been a ratings success in the US, and you can see how it took the original idea and ran with it.
The pilots are remarkably similar, with Joo Won's Park Shi-on intervening to save a child on the way to his job interview and gaining admittance (as a paediatric specialist) to a doubting medical fraternity. But from the second episode (Viceland is screening back to back instalments) they diverge, in terms of plot, pacing and taste for melodrama. CM
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