BBC1, 9pm
Lord Sir Alan Sugar returns with some more people who would like to work for him. It’s interesting that the US show is in the ratings doldrums, yet the UK show seems to go from strength to strength. As I have said previously, The Apprentice is a blind spot for me, so would anyone like to have a guess as to why that might be?
In other news, Bid TV is ten years old today and has a new set and graphics. Years ago when it was Bid-Up TV and acted like a proper auction, I found it majorly addictive to watch – engaging personalities, Peter Simon shouting at viewers and shopping that felt like a gameshow. These days it’s no more than a standard shopping channel with exciting sounding music beds. Still though.
Incidentally, I believe the late night repeat of “You’re Fired” is again an extended cut, once again they haven’t bothered to publicise this, and in all probability, the extended version won’t be on I, Player.
Why is The Apprentice a blind spot for Brig?
Was it because as a youngster, your first computer (like mine)was an Amstrad, and at the time it was the best thing in the world ever – but since then, and looking back in the cold light of Intel Duelcore processing chips – it was frankly, a woefully crap piece of UK electronic engineering, and you still hold Sir Lord Alan Sugar Of Brentford personally responsible?
Or something like that?
No! It’s nothing personal, it just always seem to be on when I’ve got so many other things I’m also giving time to.
I did have a Spectrum +2 made by Amstrad, though.
“Instead of a built in RF adapter, let’s sell them a monochrome monitor! Commodore have lost the plot with their fancy component video colour screen, who’d want that? YOU’RE FIRED!”
Work in progress script for Micro Men 2, there.
The Apprentice is great but sometimes he chooses to keep the most entertaining people for TV instead of the best business people. It’s unfair! The ugly ones always get evicted first!
That said, I believe he fired the right one this week.
Decent week considering both of the teams made a decent-ish profit. And Lord Alan seems more likeable. Good start to a series.
If there was a Fantasy The Apprentice, I’m backing Jamie.
sometimes he chooses to keep the most entertaining people for TV
I really don’t think he does. The initial casting may be a bit dodgy, but once the series is underway there’s enough raw material that *whoever’s* still in it can be presented as “entertaining people for TV”.
I love The Apprentice – Wednesday nights haven’t been the same without it! The casting has gone more extreme than ever, there only seem to be about 4 or 5 that are likeable (mainly on the women’s side I might add), the rest seem obnoxious beyond belief. Set up for a brilliant series then!
Yes I really enjoyed it. Ii should be renamed The Apprenthubris.
My brother got to the first or second round of interviews for this series, I’m so glad they turned him down. But he’d have been good Telly I think.
“Attenti a Quei Due” presented at MIPCOM
It’s Ant vs Dec: The Series!
I came up with my own introduction to this series of The Apprentice:
Welcome to the sixth series of the British version of that gameshow… you know, the one where good teamwork and an acute business brain should win the day… but hands up who only ever remembers the mistakes? The errors? The moments that, in a sporting sense, would only grace the end-of-season bloopers reel? That will be everyone then.
Each task on the Apprentice is a team game. Well, it is meant to be a team game, but there are sixteen people involved, sixteen egos to try and massage and, ultimately, sixteen people chasing an individual dream… and how many times in the past have viewers seen candidates either upset their colleagues, or even go their own way in a task, and how many of those occasions has that piece of individual ‘brilliance’ ended with the finger of doom? Lindsay early in season two is the best example, but it is not the only one. [After I wrote this, I could add Dan’s swear words this week.]
So what to expect this time around? Three things stand out: Candidates that have already felt the full force of the last recession – surely they don’t need another kicking? Candidates with dodgy pasts that were only revealed now, just as the series starts broadcasting but were overlooked before the series went in the can a whole twelve months earlier (indeed claims that one of them is ‘on the run in Spain’… that will make an interesting You’re Fired programme.) And Dara O’Briain as the new Adrian Chiles, after the old Adrian literally took the money and ran to a programme with fewer viewers than BBC Two (and fewer still, if you believe the reports of Daybreak’s imminent demise.)
Meanwhile, S4C has another show that flew under the UKGS.com radar. All I will say here is the title ’10 Jonathan’, the broadcast: S4C, 2010, and the categories: ‘Regional-Wales’, ‘S4C Programmes’, ‘Sports’. I will say more on its page this Sunday, once I have watched the next programme, airing this Friday at 23.30.
We do actually mention that show in passing somewhere on the site (no clues!), though I assumed it to be a chat show rather than a game show.
Looks like the wildcard X Factor contestants is true:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1318263/X-FACTOR-2010-Secret-wild-card-contestants-hide-blankets.html
I think there was an appearance from The Internet’s Mister Al on Deal today.
What a tedious nerd he turns out to be, then…
Just wondering – is there a clip of this anywhere? It hasn’t popped up on the normal site where I acquire my clips. Interested to see it!
STV promised and they delivered.
Win Lose or Draw on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/show?p=SuTv6SS_nGk&s=1
Completely amazing. Thanks Travis!