The Apprentice with Sir Alan Sugar starts on the 25th March. I can’t wait for the annual pressure cooker that is the BBC’s Apprentice programme.
From the moment you hear the Apprentice music to the introduction of the first task to the final boardroom show down it’s all fun and you can even pick up a few business lessons along the way.
And as well as splitting the teams into boys versus girls it looks as though it’s the North against the South too. The girls are mainly from the South and... Read Full Story
The Apprentice is about half-way through.
Certain characteristic Apprentice traits are coming to the fore.
Always remember that this whole process is really for entertainment and the editing can make people look completely different to who they feel they are.
Noorul Is Apparently Different In Real-life
Noorul has suggested that the editing made it look as though he sold nothing. However, I do think that Noorul didn’t do himself many favours by always looking very pensive whenever the... Read Full Story
Watch out Trump, you’re up against a knight now.
The UK version of The Apprentice stars Sir Alan Sugar as… well, The Boss… the one who fires people. Though in its fifth series outside the U.S., BBCAmerica is starting a run of the first series starting May 5th.
It’s much the same game, but with outrageous British accents, and to some degree or other a bit more decorum. The contestants are similarly Type-A, but there’s rather less drama just for the sake of drama... Read Full Story
Get set for a junior version of The Apprentice in 2010, with Sir Alan Sugar uttering those famous words "You're fired" to a bunch of teenagers. The current series of The Apprentice is enjoying over 8m viewers each week and Sir Alan has said he would love to make a junior version of the programme, "It is my long held belief that we should be doing more to promote enterprise amongst young people, as the future of our economy relies on them." Junior Apprentice will feature five boys and five... Read Full Story
The Apprentice with Sir Alan Sugar leaps into Comic relief with a bevy of stars to amuse one and all.
So we have Jack Dee, Gerald Ratner, Patsy Palmer, Carol Vorderman, Michelle Mone, Ruby wax, Fiona Phillips, Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Gok Wan.
Obviously, given the involvement with Comic Relief the teams have comics and other funny people, on them.
Gerald Ratner is obviously a guy with a sense of humour and a business mind to go with it and is the boys team business brain. Over in... Read Full Story
Kate Walsh and Yasmina Siadatan head to head in the final of The Apprentice 2009 for the six-figure salary job with Sir Alan Sugar…
… and the winner Yasmina Siadatan
The final task was to create a new brand of chocolates, with an eye-catching marketing campaign that was presented to over 100 industry experts, Margaret Mountford, Nick Hewer and Sir Alan himself.
Fired candidates come back to help the finalists. Yasmina picked James, Philip, Lorraine and Howard Kate chose Ben, Debra... Read Full Story
Personally I really like it when a brand can jump straight on a time sensitive event and have a bit of fun in a way which will resonate well with their audience. This is an example by Schweppes from the Times and Guardian today which has used a combination of the topical news stories the G20 Summit which commenced today in London, as well as the popular TV show The Apprentice which started again this week. The advert for the Schweppes 'Experience Matters' campaign features black and white... Read Full Story
When the boys lost it was immediately apparent to me that the glum-looking Gerald Ratner should carry the can and get fired. After all he’d not factored in the massive cost of tooling up to capture a limited market with the swap belt and its tiny characters.
As one commentator pointed out the figures were easily tiny enough to get swallowed by a baby…
Gerald complimented Jonathan Ross on his creativity (and the drive to get the swap belt created) and also Gok Wan for his fabulous... Read Full Story
With his no-nonsense attitude on The Apprentice Sir Alan Sugar is clearly not a man to be messed with. It is for this reason artist Lee Jones has portrayed Sir Alan as The Godfather of British business in his latest painting. Based on the iconic film poster for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 masterpiece 'The Godfather' his work replaces supreme mafia boss, Marlon Brando with the Amstrad boss. "I’m a massive fan of the apprentice, and like the fact that Sir Alan is trying to help British... Read Full Story
Cricket fanatic, qualified lawyer and self-confessed perfectionist Anita Shah says she was gutted to be fired first from the popular reality show BBC’s The Apprentice.
In last night’s show the girls team who named themselves Ignite and led by Mona Lewis wasted time selecting their cleaning equipment and as Anita calculated the team’s expenditure – she congratulated them for not exceeding the £200 limit.
The board rooms results showed clearly the girls error
The Girls team Ignite took... Read Full Story
