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I used to like the "car crash" element of the apprentice, but we've seen it all before, and it's hard to be entertained by yet another intake of deluded fools. The format has become more stale than big brother's dirty undercrackers, the jackpot is demonstrably pointless, and even SrAlan's one-liners are wearing thin.


I'm 95% sure the next series will be on C5 or Dave.

Scary thing watching this series at any time is that (and I think this is still the case) these candidates are allegedly in competition for a ?100,000 position.


These muppets patently would struggle to achieve ?50,000 by any other means.


All the background and experience they boast (and often cannot substantiate) seems to bear no merit in the tasks they undertake.


You just would not pay ?100,000 to these chancers, which is why they are on this programme and not already firmly deployed in a position of this level of pay.


The only candidate I ever saw with decent skills was very early on in the series, it was the chap I think called Tim who'd IIRC been employed previously at London Underground.

What utter Contrived Drivel.


Sugar is a jumped up, Wide Boy. Poor Boy made Good.


The Apprentice is a TV Show. Edited to best effect.

It earns Sugar Millions.

Hence repeated series.


I doubt if Sugar ever actually interviews anyone in any of the companies he owns.

He has Directors and Managers in place to do that.


The Apprentices themselves a miserable bunch of spoilt, crawling gits..

One wonders how they are selected..


I doubt if Lord Sugar would ever speak to those in his imployment in the same way he speaks to his Apprentices.

That is all done to make 'Good' ?? TV


DulwichFox

Dopamine1979 Wrote:

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> It's still good fun.

> Anyway I'm sure some of the 'deluded fools' are

> looking for a TV career or are just along for the

> ride.


I used to work with James Max until he left for the first apprentice series and now presents on LBC. Not sure if many others have made it into media though.

*Bob* Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > It earns Sugar Millions.

> > Hence repeated series.

>

>

> Er, no. It still manages 6 million viewers -

> 'Hence repeated Series'


It has 6 million viewers because of the time it is screened; when nothing else is on.


How many people would stay up to watch it if it was screened at midnight.

How many people would even bother to record it.


DulwichFox

So I expect the extra 2-3 million viewers (on top of the near 6 for the primetime showing) watching the show either on iPlayer, or the repeat showing, or recorded - just slipped and fell on their computers and recorders - and accidentally accessed the programme.


Is there anything else you know nothing about which you'd care to offer an uninformed opinion on today?

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Scary thing watching this series at any time is

> that (and I think this is still the case) these

> candidates are allegedly in competition for a

> ?100,000 position.



Bit different now. For the last couple of years the prize has not been a job, but a ?250,000 investment in to a business. The finalists present their business plans, and srallen invests in the winner (and probably takes 50% of their profits for years after)!

The format is certainly tired and they've shed a million or two viewers from their peak a year (or two?) ago but - nine series in - it's still an absolute solid performer for Auntie.


Compare to Big Brother: peaked with over 8m in the early days, ended on 2m.



3m watch the follow-up 'You're Fired' show, FFS! God knows why.

"Sugar is a jumped up, Wide Boy. Poor Boy made Good."


How dare he not know his place, tsk!!


as for the programme, I find it unwatchable but the missus finds it compelling, so I just pretend to shoot people, which she just finds pointlessly weird, so dif'rnt strokes for dif'rnt folks I guess.

i find the adverts for it excrutiating enough, so gawd knows what the actual program is like


I do know that my twitter/facebook feeds are full of people moaning about how awful it is- goodness knows why they bother watching it then. We Brits seem to like watching unwatchable telly, then moaning about how unwatchable it is.

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> What utter Contrived Drivel.

>

> Sugar is a jumped up, Wide Boy. Poor Boy made

> Good.



How dare he have worked his way up from nothing? All those far more deserving people who inherited their wealth that he stepped on to be successful!

I still like it and watch it, and yes I'm one of those who records it.


I hardly watch any television, but I watch The Apprentice.


I agree it's now got a somewhat tired format, but I still find it entertaining :)


Of course it's "contrived". What else could it be? At least it's not bloody Mary Portas :))

*Bob* Wrote:

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> So I expect the extra 2-3 million viewers (on top

> of the near 6 for the primetime showing) watching

> the show either on iPlayer, or the repeat showing,

> or recorded - just slipped and fell on their

> computers and recorders - and accidentally

> accessed the programme.

>

> Is there anything else you know nothing about

> which you'd care to offer an uninformed opinion on

> today?


What do you mean by 'know nothing about' ?

There is nothing to know about.


I did not dispute viewing figures.. I merely expressed my Valid Opinion that I personally did not rate the show,

or indeed watch it. Although I have seen enough to have an opinion in the first place.


Sorry for my Ignorance... But then Ignorance is different from being Ignorant.


DulwichFox

Sorry Foxy, but that's balls!


According to you, the show continues because it's good for Sugar, achieves good viewing figures simply because it its slot and moreover outside that slot - nobody would be interested.


In fact, the show continues because its good for the BBC, gets good viewing figures because it's a popular show with a solid viewing base - and gets 3m viewers outside of its prime slot.


Happy to set you straight. On you go - to the next blunder.

The Apprentice 2013 opens to lowest audiences ratings since 2007, is it time the show was fired off the air?


Early viewing figures suggest that last night?s series opener acquired 6.01 million viewers, down 400k on last year?s series premiere and nearly two million on the 2011 offering.


So with this in mind we ask why is it that people are switching off from Lord Sugar?s mammoth interview process.


http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/gossip/the-juice/the-apprentice-2013-opens-to-lowest-audiences-ratings-since-2008--is-it-time-the-show-was-fired--115412905.html


Either way, Lord Sugar should be hoping for better ratings tonight or for the first time ever, he could find himself in the firing line.


Your right Bob.. It's just me. And I did not initially mention viewing figures.. Just said I dis not like the show.

Well would seem on a bit of delving once again the Fox is Right.


DulwichFox. Does not argue.. Just quotes Facts.

I really don't understand your continual insistence to offer-up so-called understanding based-on half-arsed googling. Is that omg.yahoo - 'for all your tv analysis needs'?


I remember fondly your recent advice on the gardening thread.. a six foot trench and barrier for bamboo.. happy days.



Anyway, according to you of course, they could just put the test card up in that slot and still get the same figures.

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