Is Anyone Watching The Apprentice?

[Mikecg]

The guitar isn't what it was you know, they should have made a DJ kit, that would have won.

[PinkyB]

It's the joy of watching idiots who think they're fantastic get shot down in flames. As Woody Allen says in Annie Hall, "Boy, if life were only like this..."

[PinkyB]

Difficult week this week. None of them majorly screwed up, unfortunately.

Gotta be Lorraine. I think we've all had enough of her "instinct".

Anyway, Siralan is clearly an old-school misogynist. He won't hire a woman if he can help it.

[Mikecg]

I would'nt like to say.

[PinkyB]

I shall be pointlessly blogging into the ether on "Yer Fired!" after this as well. Sod it, what have I got to lose?

Howard looks like he has too many teeth for his mouth.

"I AM a brave warrior!"

Lorraine knows she's going home in a taxi. "Natural business acumen" my arse.

Don't mention your kids, Lorraine, remember what happened to Katie Hopkins.

Kate: "I'm blonde and lovely, keep me, keep me!"

[Mikecg]

Class.

[PinkyB]

Sir Alan sums up:

kate's "a one trick pony"

Howard's a "steady eddie"

Lorraine "speaks a good game" but she's a "slow burner in the thought process"

Yep, she's definitely going home.

[Mikecg]

Howards way....

Way out of his league.

[PinkyB]

OH MY GOD! I did NOT see that coming!

Howard goes home!

Lorraine got away with that by the skin of her teeth.

Well, that leaves just one bloke in the final five. James, of all people, you'd never have bet on that one.

God, they're a poor lot this year.

Howard: "I'm gutted... maybe I need to be more of a maverick in the future."

Don't be a maverick, Howard, people who are mavericks are all tossers.

[PinkyB]

Love James.

"I'm the last bloke! I feel like Hugh Hefner!"

Hurray, next week it's the interviews, that'll be a bloodbath.

Right, over to BBC2!

[Mikecg]

Not quite Playmate of the year territory though are they.

[PinkyB]

I used to love Howard's Way. Top Sunday evening entertainment. They should remake it with Martin Clunes. Everything else has Martin Clunes in it, so why not?

Weird cultural schism, just turned over to BBC2 where Armando Iannucci is reading from "Paradise Lost".

Hope this week's "Yer Fired" has got some decent guests for a change. Recent standard has been very poor.

Adrian Chiles! I would.

[PinkyB]

Well, to be fair, Debra does look a bit like a Playboy Playmate that stood too close to a candle and melted.

[Mikecg]

Nah! every rehash he's in flops, look at Reggie Perin.

[PinkyB]

Howard's grown a tufty little fringe like Tintin. Not sure about that at all.

The sequinned crafty cat thingy did for Howard, it seems.

Oh, apparently the alternatives were worse.

Worse!

[Mikecg]

Schtum!

[PinkyB]

I made a deliberate point of not watching Reggie Perrin. Some things should not be messed with. leonard Rossiter is one of them.

Oh God, not Rufus "Who?" Hound. That bloke really thinks he's funny. They should get Hugh Dennis back, he was much better. Does anyone else remember him when he was in the Mary Whitehouse Experience?

[PinkyB]

Blah, boring woman guest who works for minor shopping channel, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Herding cats, that's something I'd like to see.

Howard's coming across as actually a reasonable human being. Not a massive tw*t like Ben and Philip. Past viewing of this show has proven that you do, unfortunately, need to be a little bit of a massive tw*t to win this show.

[PinkyB]

Love Margaret. I want to see a spin-off show with Nick and Margaret dismissing wannabees with a selection of arch, withering putdowns.

[PinkyB]

Kate is "faultless", apparently.

That really is quite sickening.

It'd be interesting to see a Debra/ Kate face-off in the final. Although the tabloids would have a field day with appalling "Beauty & The Beast" style headlines.

James! James! James!

Unfortunately he has about as much chance of winning as I do.

[Keef]

I watched it (recorded second half of footy, and don't know result yet). Was surprised Howard went, but Nick just slaughtered him, having already stuck up for Lorraine when they were out the room.

[bigbadwolf]

Nick and Margaret are like two wasps at a picnic.

[PinkyB]

Debra is 23? How has that happened? She looks about 40!

[PinkyB]

Welcome to the closing stages, by the way. Nice to have company in my lonely thread. I think Mike's gone for a cuppa. Is it half-time?

[PinkyB]

Time to vote.

Margaret thinks Lorraine should have gone.

So does Rufus and the Boring Woman.

And so do the audience! That's a rare sight, a sea of "You're Hired"s. Only because they all hate Lorraine though.

isn't it funny how when they show clips of the first few episodes you've already forgotten those people's names? What was the American woman called? Who's that?

Aaaaaaaand it's all over for another week. Thanks for reading (or not) and good night!