[TV] The Apprentice 2023

[sparkie]

I never liked the change from the original prize of working for Sugar to having a business plan for his investment. The business plans are all dire, drop them and go back to the original format.

 

[McTavish]

Poor candidates throughout, producers need to go back to basics like the original few series and get some actual business people as candidates.

If you were an actual business person, why would you go on The Apprentice?

 

[Rookie]

If you were an actual business person, why would you go on The Apprentice?

To get an investment, increase your brand? Much like the old series where they were people who had some basic common sense and knew business as opposed to a good number of the contestants in the last few series

 

[Brian Fantana]

I never liked the change from the original prize of working for Sugar to having a business plan for his investment. The business plans are all dire, drop them and go back to the original format.

I've been saying this for years. You have the nonsense of someone being a great performer through all of the tasks and getting to the final stages, only for their business plan to then be outed as total bollocks.

The whole thing worked much better, IMO at least, when they were competing for a job.

 

[McTavish]

To get an investment, increase your brand? Much like the old series where they were people who had some basic common sense and knew business as opposed to a good number of the contestants in the last few series

If you were an actual business person with a decent idea, there are easier ways to get £250,000 than humiliating yourself for weeks on TV in the hope that you are the least idiotic of 18 people and do not fall foul of any of Suralan's arbitrary judgements. There is a reason why so many of the "business plans" are half-baked and unambitious.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I can't quite square the "Marnie is a barrister, she has never been in business before" with the Companies House entries, which show she is 80% shareholder, director, Person of Significant Control of Bronx Boxing Ltd - a company with 3 other directors all appointed on 6th April 2022 who are boxing coach, personal trainer and workplace experience manager. 1 of these - the boxing coach - owns the other 20%.

The company has been going almost 4 years, is £16K in deficit so even if she flogged all the Fixed Assets at their Net Book Value she'd still need to find £16K to pay off the £47K government Bounce Back Loan.

No mention of any of this in the interview stage, boardroom shakedown or pitch to industry.

 

[crodonilson]

Gutted for Rochelle, she was excellent throughout and handled the questions in her final pitch exquisitely.

 

[Beach Hut]

Glad Marnie won, the other ones plan was piss poor and frankly ludicrous

 

[SteveU]

This program for me highlights all that is wrong with the modern world.

Deluded fuckwits who no f*** all about business.

 

[seagullwedgee]

This program for me highlights all that is wrong with the modern world.

Deluded fuckwits who no f*** all about business.

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