[TV] The Apprentice 2023

[portlock seagull]

Sell by date was a decade ago. Use by definitely last decade.

Surprised still commissioned. Shows weakness of television, and supposedly lead channel, when still commanding prime time.

 

[The Clamp]

Sell by date was a decade ago. Use by definitely last decade.

Surprised still commissioned. Shows weakness of television, and supposedly lead channel, when still commanding prime time.

It's continuing commission will be based on viewing figures. Clearly enough people watch it for it to remain "relevant".

I simply cannot bear listening to them speak. Every word out of their mouths is deluded, ego-based, horse-shit.

It genuinely baffles me why people would invite them into their living rooms.

As an aside, I'm guessing they get plenty of people telling them to f*** off out of their business on this task, but they don't air those bits? Or it's pre-arranged?

 

[Flagship]

It was amazing that no-one knew what a 45 was and even more surprising that they had to be told that a navel was a belly button.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Well I still think it's a decent watch, my 16 year old gets to learn about business and it's one of a few shows we can watch as a family.

Denisha was fit and it is a shame she's gone but it was a fair decision.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Well I still think it's a decent watch, my 16 year old gets to learn about business and it's one of a few shows we can watch as a family.

Anyone who has worked in business will watch this and cringe at how un-business-like some of these "candidates" are.

Example was the haggle over a £2 7" ABBA vinyl. Unless you're a child at a car-boot where haggling over pennies can be fun ...

 

[Wozza]

As an aside, I'm guessing they get plenty of people telling them to f*** off out of their business on this task, but they don't air those bits? Or it's pre-arranged?

Definitely pre-arranged off-camera.

No shopkeeper has ever said "What's this? What are you recording for?" and customers are blatantly warned/cleared off the premises.

But it's best not to overthink the production behind The Apprentice. I mean, Sugar doesn't have fancy offices in Canary Wharf either...

 

[Stato]

Was fun watching them fail when you had local knowledge. You started in the Pavilion. Why are you getting in the car? Just walk through the gardens to the Jubilee Library, find a dictionary and look up the things you can't identify, on through Kensington Gardens to pick up most of them, then to the Open Market who would definitely have someone who, if they didn't have asparagus picked this morning, would happily tell you it was. Twenty minute walk. You're done. Spend the rest of the day crawling the North Laine pubs and head back to tell Sugar to stick his job up his jacksy as you're moving to Brighton to open a body casting shop since you've found they can charge nearly two hundred quid to pour some polyfilla in someone's belly button.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Definitely pre-arranged off-camera.

No shopkeeper has ever said "What's this? What are you recording for?" and customers are blatantly warned/cleared off the premises.

But it's best not to overthink the production behind The Apprentice. I mean, Sugar doesn't have fancy offices in Canary Wharf either...

Exactly, it's as if some people on here think it's real. It's just a bit of midweek comedy

 

[Weststander]

Don't take it too seriously, it was never a business programme, always a comedy.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Anyone who has worked in business will watch this and cringe at how un-business-like some of these "candidates" are.

Example was the haggle over a £2 7" ABBA vinyl. Unless you're a child at a car-boot where haggling over pennies can be fun ...

Found it odd they were having a go at Cockney neck for not getting it for 75p in the boardroom. When failed items are 200 quid, just pay the 2 quid and move on. Quite liked the body casting bloke, his obvious distain for the lot of them made him the star of the show.

As for Karen Brady giving it the raised eyebrow because the teams didn't know what the items were. Give me a break. Given she hung around with Gold and Sullivan, she is only really useful for finding the Ann Summers shop and paying Jack Wilshire 100K a week. She wouldn't know those items they couldn't find if they fell on her without Google.

 

[Napper]

another fittish bird gone

 

[Bozza]

Found it odd they were having a go at Cockney neck for not getting it for 75p in the boardroom. When failed items are 200 quid, just pay the 2 quid and move on. Quite liked the body casting bloke, his obvious distain for the lot of them made him the star of the show.

Just watching it now on iPlayer.

I'm guessing they weren't told how much the fine per item was, otherwise they'd not bother buying anything that cost more than £50 - it would be more advantageous to just take the £50 hit.

And, as it turned out, a team who didn't buy any of the nine items would have won the task!

 

[Pevenseagull]

Good thing that they didn't go after palourde they'd only been fobbed off with cockles and got a fine for getting the wrong thing.

Just like I was in The Urchin last year. 'I can assure you they are the same thing', '...and I can assure you they are not'.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Can someone tell me if it's still the ridiculous concept where the winner isn't ACTUALLY given a job as an apprentice anymore but instead it SUDDENLY turns into a mini episode of Dragons Den at the VERY END and Lord Suggz just picks the business he wanted to invest in all along (which makes the previous however many weeks a complete and utter waste of time)

 

[Stato]

Just watching it now on iPlayer.

I'm guessing they weren't told how much the fine per item was, otherwise they'd not bother buying anything that cost more than £50 - it would be more advantageous to just take the £50 hit.

And, as it turned out, a team who didn't buy any of the nine items would have won the task!

They always seem to just make the fines up after the event on this task. I presume they want to add to the jeopardy.

What I've learned is, if I want 50p knocked off an old single in a secondhand record shop, I'll be needing a bunch of us to go in mobhanded in suits and argue about who is leading the negotation.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Was fun watching them fail when you had local knowledge. You started in the Pavilion. Why are you getting in the car? Just walk through the gardens to the Jubilee Library, find a dictionary and look up the things you can't identify, on through Kensington Gardens to pick up most of them, then to the Open Market who would definitely have someone who, if they didn't have asparagus picked this morning, would happily tell you it was. Twenty minute walk. You're done. Spend the rest of the day crawling the North Laine pubs and head back to tell Sugar to stick his job up his jacksy as you're moving to Brighton to open a body casting shop since you've found they can charge nearly two hundred quid to pour some polyfilla in someone's belly button.

Yes, all they really needed to do, once the pm was chosen, was to grab a local pensioner off the street and grill them for 10 minutes. Job’s a good ‘in.

 

[portlock seagull]

It's continuing commission will be based on viewing figures. Clearly enough people watch it for it to remain "relevant".

I simply cannot bear listening to them speak. Every word out of their mouths is deluded, ego-based, horse-shit.

It genuinely baffles me why people would invite them into their living rooms.

As an aside, I'm guessing they get plenty of people telling them to f*** off out of their business on this task, but they don't air those bits? Or it's pre-arranged?

Couldn’t agree more. Must be pre arranged, why else would you entertain someone ‘negotiating’ on a £1.50 record according to previous posts. Nothing changes eh?! Such a crock of

 

[Motogull]

I can't bear Sugar. His scripted efforts to be funny damage my cringe pipes.

 

[portlock seagull]

I can't bear Sugar. His scripted efforts to be funny damage my cringe pipes.

He is such a cock isn’t he when he does this. If anyone of those nobs begging for his money were to ever reply “yeah, good one” before carrying on, they’d win more respect that the eventual winner.

 

[seagull_si]

This has probably already been mentioned.
If the fine for not getting an item was £50, why would you pay more than that. £100 for a wig, £100+ for body cast.
They are better off not bothering. The losing team would have spent less not getting anything .