The Apprentice

[Mick Mac]

Well - what did we think?

She talked herself into a hole I guess - but it always seems to be the leaders / conflictors who end up in the boardroom. Lots of nobodys get to walk into the next round not really having done anything or been noticed doing anything.

Think Debra was lucky to get away with calling her team puppets.

Was that Carole Vorderman on the panel - she looks better all the time.

[tommy]

She was the obvious one to go - Sirralan (or the producers) obviously thought having the other two in would be better TV

How many hours a day is Adrian Chiles on ?

[matthew123]

I watched the first series and caught the odd sound bite in further series but in truth I think it's a load of rubbish ... it's an excellent concept but I've found more intelligence at Sainsbury's asking where they stock the eggs..

[Mick Mac]

Absolutley agree Matthew - but I'm going to give this one a few weeks to see if it bites.

[red devil]

The problem with most reality shows is that you do get hooked, I've learnt to...

http://www.kapowgifts.co.uk/acatalog/just_say_no.jpg

[tommy]

I rate reality type programmes as how much you shout at the TV - as they go it really is one of the best. Obviously the candidates are chosen for their ill-advised bravado and backstabbing abilities - all part of the fun

[Mick Mac]

Rock on Tommy.

[Keef]

The Apprentice is the only reality TV I do watch, I love it, just some of the most deluded thick people on the planet! Unfortunately I never saw last night, as I was all ready to watch it, when I got suddenly very ill, and had to have a doctor out. No fun at all, but will make sure I catch up.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Keef Wrote:

when I got suddenly very ill, and had to have a doctor out. No fun at all, but will make sure I catch up.

How are you feeling today Keef?

[bigbadwolf]

I've often thought that they could make the Apprentice far more entertaining if when Alan 'I've donated my fee to the great Ormond st hospital' Sugar comes out to evaluate the teams performance in relation to whoevers getting the chop one of his assistants helped him into his chair.

[Keef]

How are you feeling today Keef?

Like I've been beaten up, everything aches.

Aaaanyway, do we have a super b!tch this year?

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Keef Wrote:

Aaaanyway, do we have a super b!tch this year?

Well I know a few "super bitches" by their own admission but whadd'ya mean?;-)

[Mick Mac]

Debra could be the early runner for superb!tch this year. Just seems to smirk when someone has a go at her, a bit patronising.

The geordie Philip and last nighs team leader, Howard, are not going to get on.

[Kells]

I can't stand her already! And she has short term amnesia. But the person who annoys me the most on that program is Alan Sugar.

[Mick Mac]

Kells......for that....you're fired. [AMS].

[Kells]

MickMac....I'm fired on the first show?!

[Mick Mac]

Ok Kells - you get to stay - but I want you to really show next week.

[Sue]

I love The Apprentice.

It's about the only thing I ever watch :-$

Even once having to co-run workshops with Jo Cameron didn't put me off it :))

[MrBen]

Interesting.....I recently received a CV from an Apprentice candidate from the last series asking me for a job. It was a good, strong CV until summer 2007 when it read " X then took 18 months off to star in the popular TV series The Apprentice when X made it to the last four". This person called me up, we spoke briefly and it would seem that after their fleeting spell in the limelight and the usual 12 months opening Business Centres in Romford / falling out of nightclubs it's back to (real) reality. With one helluva bump. And to be honest there was no way I'd realistically consider them - so career suicide too. Great TV though.

[*Bob*]

It's still fun but the whole thing's looking a bit worn this time around.

S'Ralon's opening 'speech' to the candidates was bad written, poorly delivered and massively cringeworthy, making him look like a parody of himself, but that's what happens when things get hackneyed.

I think this ought to be the last series (so expect another six)

[MrBen]

*Bob* Wrote:

> S'Ralon's opening 'speech' to the candidates was

> bad written, poorly delivered and massively

> cringeworthy, making him look like a parody of

> himself, but that's what happens when things get

> hackneyed.

Agreed - clearly written for him. He's naturally good enough to ad lib himself without a lame Elton John gag written by one of the producers. His appearance on the One show the other night was a prime example: On truants - "Round 'em up and make em watch an Alan Yentob documentary until they go back to school".

[SeanMacGabhann]

nothing wrong with Yentob's Cracked Actor

[Jeremy]

I think it's very entertaining... all these delulded 25 year old salesmen, who think they're business tycoons, talking about their "management styles", etc. If any of them were half as talented as they believed they were, they wouldn't be bending over backwards for a 100k job working for Alan Sugar in some Essex backwater.

[*Bob*]

It is entertaining.

Only it's less entertaining than the time before - which in turn was less entertaining than the one that preceded it.

But then that's telly for you.

[*Bob*]

And the fact that everybody and his dog has seen The Apprentice now has a bearing on how the tasks work.

It used to be great watching a bemused businessman or random bod getting doorstepped by a dozen absolute tits and deciding for himself to show them the door.

But now, the instant they see the cameras, the suits and said tits you just know they're thinking "aah, The Apprentice, I shall play along.."

Hopefully the less improvisatory 'street' tasks (designing something for presentation to industry etc) will still be good though.