The Apprentice

[Squarewheelbike]

Good to see after the enforced break, there's still plenty of young go-to Muppets out there to willingly humiliate themselves for our entertainment!

Out of curiousity, anyone one on here ever contemplated it, or any other "reality" TV?

 

[sambaDTR]

Why is everybody called “Guys” nowadays? Surprised it hasn’t been called a sexist comment? May we should all be called Gals? Or with Jimmy Saville… maybe not!

 

[Emmersons_BrazillianDong]

Used to enjoy the show. Now they just seem to find a load of weirdos and chuck them in together

 

[sambaDTR]

See Claude not in it. Injured in fall from an electric bike! Should have got a chauffer!

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Love the show but that turd banana man logo has to be the worst I’ve ever seen. The brown and green gradient just topped it all off.

Always fancied myself as being capable of doing well on that show. I may not be a salesman but at least I could knock up a logo.

 

[NZBoro1]

I saw in the gazette that they would like to see more people from Teesside on it, or was that just the gazette?

 

[Steer]

Love the show but that turd banana man logo has to be the worst I’ve ever seen. The brown and green gradient just topped it all off.

Always fancied myself as being capable of doing well on that show. I may not be a salesman but at least I could knock up a logo.

Yes, it was so bad and funny. In the preview for next weeks show, the electric toothbrush that the boys design is also brown and green. Someone on that team must be doing it for a bet?

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Good to see after the enforced break, there's still plenty of young go-to Muppets out there to willingly humiliate themselves for our entertainment!

Out of curiousity, anyone one on here ever contemplated it, or any other "reality" TV?

I used to work with someone who appeared in the Irish version. She told me a few stories about how it worked, and especially about how they played the contestants against each other, in order to generate good TV.

What gets me, is they big themselves up as big players in the corporate world - this lady sold consulting services (not very successfully) and had very little clue about how large corporations work. When they used to offer £100k salary, anyone with the skills they all claim to possess would be earning far in excess of that anyway.

It's Love Island in suits, and I'm OK with that, it's entertaining.

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Why is everybody called “Guys” nowadays? Surprised it hasn’t been called a sexist comment? May we should all be called Gals? Or with Jimmy Saville… maybe not!

It has in my work (a West Coast US based company) we're not allowed to use the term, because of its non inclusiveness.

 

[Zoophonic]

I saw in the gazette that they would like to see more people from Teesside on it, or was that just the gazette?

Over half the contestants this year are from London and the Home Counties and of course all three of the judging panel are Londoners. They certainly don’t have a countrywide balance this year.

 

[Zoophonic]

I used to work with someone who appeared in the Irish version. She told me a few stories about how it worked, and especially about how they played the contestants against each other, in order to generate good TV.

What gets me, is they big themselves up as big players in the corporate world - this lady sold consulting services (not very successfully) and had very little clue about how large corporations work. When they used to offer £100k salary, anyone with the skills they all claim to possess would be earning far in excess of that anyway.

It's Love Island in suits, and I'm OK with that, it's entertaining.

I have worked with Miriam Staley a contestant on the very first series that was won by the current new advisor Tim Campbell. She said that in its original form the show was a genuine business competition and there was no grandstanding or manipulation of tasks to make better TV. Of course as the series developed the change to a more BB style prog became obvious.

 

[A]

It's the best comedy on TV currently, very well acted

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

I think its a bit like Dragons Den/Love Island, in this case a job with a salary of 100k or an investment into the business, whatever the current format is, but the real prize is the exposure you get from the show and potentially working directly with AS. Trouble is they seemingly pick people on purpose that will be abrasive or just idiotic, and half the show is cuts of people looking like they're trying to read a foreign language whenever anyone else is speaking. I still enjoy it but its more cringe TV than serious.

 

[Nano]

I used to work with someone who appeared in the Irish version. She told me a few stories about how it worked, and especially about how they played the contestants against each other, in order to generate good TV.

What gets me, is they big themselves up as big players in the corporate world - this lady sold consulting services (not very successfully) and had very little clue about how large corporations work. When they used to offer £100k salary, anyone with the skills they all claim to possess would be earning far in excess of that anyway.

It's Love Island in suits, and I'm OK with that, it's entertaining.

The original series were more like X Factor in that they were giving people a chance of breaking into the corporate world that wouldn't usually get it so it was people with their own businesses or people early in their career etc. Then they realised that the most popular people on it were the characters so they prioritised entertainment. I don't think anyone that takes their career seriously would dare go on it these days.

We've also been told that we have to stop using guys because it is gendered. Daft really because I always assumed it was just a generic term for a group of people. It's not the most masculine sounding term.

 

[Zoophonic]

The original series were more like X Factor in that they were giving people a chance of breaking into the corporate world that wouldn't usually get it so it was people with their own businesses or people early in their career etc. Then they realised that the most popular people on it were the characters so they prioritised entertainment. I don't think anyone that takes their career seriously would dare go on it these days.

We've also been told that we have to stop using guys because it is gendered. Daft really because I always assumed it was just a generic term for a group of people. It's not the most masculine sounding term.

Agree with most of that but most people on the show now have their own businesses of sorts - much more so than in the very early series

 

[Anton_Berg]

Sugar has not done anything entrepreneurial since the contestants were born, plus another 20 years. And it's not as if he is a national treasure, or even just mildly entertaining.

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

We've also been told that we have to stop using guys because it is gendered. Daft really because I always assumed it was just a generic term for a group of people. It's not the most masculine sounding term.

Never heard the word 'guys' used so much until I got my first job in an office. It always seems to be the management staff who use it, probably to try and make people feel like a team. Bit cringe whenever I hear it.

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Sugar has not done anything entrepreneurial since the contestants were born, minus another 20 years. And it's not as if he is a national treasure, or even just mildly entertaining.

Oh yeah he's a horrible little gammon, who spends most of his time making racist jokes on Twitter. He's made most of his money from the vast property portfolio he wisely accumulated, as he wont be making money off the technology companies he invests in.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

They need to stop the Sugar one liners. Most are completely unfunny despite the sycophantic giggling that always follows them.

 

[Anton_Berg]

This is what a respected businessman thought of The Apprentice. One of the last interviews he gave and when the TV show was still 'semi-serious'.

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