Same here, in the end I wanted him to stay. They always have a couple of hapless yet arrogant Kurren types, who make the prog more entertaining.
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[TV] The Apprentice 2018 - official thread
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Same here, in the end I wanted him to stay. They always have a couple of hapless yet arrogant Kurren types, who make the prog more entertaining.
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Agreed: the guy has star quality. Or at least thinks he has.
LU7 RED
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Glad other folk were looking through their fingers/behind the sofa. Truly bewildering levels of idiocy with the advert music and choice of songs etc.
I can only put it down to the amount of time they have to decide on these concepts - surely with more time they would realise how terrible their choices were?
I can only put it down to the amount of time they have to decide on these concepts - surely with more time they would realise how terrible their choices were?
That is a little harsh - Jackie's pitching is pretty high quality, as is Kayode's selling. Overall there has been a remarkable lack of sensible creativity, especially from the "I'm great at marketing" dickheads, and some of the lack of common sense is hilarious - airlines with explosions in the logo and "highway to hell" theme tunes. Incredible levels of foolishness.
Both teams were woeful throughout, but the blanket criticism of the 'Highway to Hell' choice was a bit annoying.
The (weak) concept of their advert, was the business traveler, suffering a crap experience on another airline - thus the song choice to marry in with that. Then the tagline, 'NEXT TIME, choose Manage-Air...'
Nothing earth shattering, but contrary to what the BA guy claimed; "Highway to Hell - for an Airline!?", (and SirAlan repeated) it actually DID make sense, in context. Unfortunately, blondie was cowed by the criticism and didn't mount any defence or explanation
Yes but for all that, despite the fact that planes are statistically the safest form of travel, there are connotations of disaster associated with the industry. Consequently, anything that goes near that simply has to be given a wide berth. I understand where the root of the problem lay (as you explain it well) BUT somebody needed to say "we simply cannot have 'highway to hell' as a theme tune for an airline"Both teams were woeful throughout, but the blanket criticism of the 'Highway to Hell' choice was a bit annoying.
The (weak) concept of their advert, was the business traveler, suffering a crap experience on another airline - thus the song choice to marry in with that. Then the tagline, 'NEXT TIME, choose Manage-Air...'
Nothing earth shattering, but contrary to what the BA guy claimed; "Highway to Hell - for an Airline!?", (and SirAlan repeated) it actually DID make sense, in context. Unfortunately, blondie was cowed by the criticism and didn't mount any defence or explanation
For sure. It just stood out for me as odd, that she never tried to defend it, and just left it as inexplicable choice that made no sense.
(At least in the boardroom - she couldn't defend it to the BA bloke in the pitch, as she bottled even being on the pitch, which was unusual for a PM)
LamieRobertson
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Sugar must be thinking he won't want to give £2.50 to any of this lot let alone £250k
McTavish
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Absolutely this. I am convinced that he was doing it all on purpose - the whole "I am a I am gifted film-maker - you must trust my vision" schtick had to be an elaborate ploy to get himself noticed. He knew (probably from the start) that he wasn't going to win and so has been assuring himself of a few post-Apprentice gigs by standing out from the crowd. The only thing that surprised me was that he came out with the usual, "Thank you for the opportunity, Lord Sugar," after he was fired rather than denouncing Sugar, his henchman and the entire process as a sham that had failed to recognise true genius.
Actually thought the blonde girl deserved to go over him last night. She came up with Jetpop and that unbelievable logo. She completely dismissed the PMs choice of name for no other reason then she was too stupid to know what it meant, even though he explained it on the phone. Pangaea was a pretty good name for an airline. and let's not forget her first suggestion was Strawpeado!
Kurren had used this show, as is often the case with NON reality TV candidates, to put his name out there. Either to enhance the odds of gaining acting work and/or to become a D-lister. He appears to have no business acumen or graft about him.
But I’ll miss his comedy value!
Thunder Bolt
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He admitted on the BBC2 You're Fired show, that he hadn't even got a business plan. Goodness knows what he submitted before the series started.
Agree with the comments about not going straight to the boardroom bit. Last night was so bad that it was great TV.
"What comes before part B? Part-ayyy". Jet Pop. Highway to hell. The cabin crew outfit making them look like slappers. Christ on a bike. TV gold.
"What comes before part B? Part-ayyy". Jet Pop. Highway to hell. The cabin crew outfit making them look like slappers. Christ on a bike. TV gold.
Pavilionaire
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In theory, if Kurran's team had run with his original idea of a business airline, and had then embraced his name of Pangaea, they would have had a brand name and a market. Pangaea literally means bringing all continents together and is a perfect concept for an airline. Super-continental travel! They had the raw material for a really good brand but nobody could fit any of the pieces together.
To be fair, they were easy to wipe clean.
Know-it-all Kurren wrongly explained Pangaea as there were once two bits (continents), getting mixed up with the later evolutionary split into Gondwana and Laurasia.
Brownstuff
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This programme has pretty much seen it's day now as full of clowns who love themselves with no basic arithmetic skills
However post 1 of this thread is pretty much why I tune in religiously every week
I will keep watching it. It's family entertainment for us, with our kids also joining in with the mickey taking out of the inept candidates and laughing at the bitchy infighting. We still laugh about idiots from recent series - Selina, Karthik, Mukai.
It's not a serious business programme, although there's always a couple who will succeed in business.
Raleigh Chopper
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I would have liked to have seen one of them pitch to the BA suits and say " Our aim is to create a low cost airline that will do so much better than GO.
We do not anticipate having to sell it off in a few years, on the cheap, to our major rivals, and handing over to them hundreds of Gatwick slots".
We do not anticipate having to sell it off in a few years, on the cheap, to our major rivals, and handing over to them hundreds of Gatwick slots".
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Shame Kaodie was fired, thought he was quite good