The Apprentice 2025

[The Gauge]

Starts Thursday 30th January 2025

Just how bad (in a good way) can this be?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00275yk/broadcas...


Karren SourMcSourface looks set to return. Plus there will be another series in 2026 if anyone here fancies applying

https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/take-part/the-...

Edited by The Gauge on Thursday 16th January 11:41

[Evercross]

Gave up on this long ago when it became formulaic (same type of people in the same type of scenarios).

I reckon they could generate the 2026 series using AI trained from the previous five series and few would notice.

[cliffords]

I loved it when it came out. Applied myself many many years ago. I really liked the programme. I have not watched the past few years. It's utterly repetitive. Not in a good way like Beer or Cake.

[shtu]

Yeah, it converted from a competition among mostly competent people that were worth (iirc) a £100kpa job, it's morphed into a parade of imbeciles with 1 or 2 contenders in the mix, that Sugar wants as far away from his core business as possible. I'll probably still watch it though.

I had a nose at the bios earlier and this one stood out, for no other reason that she acknowledges it is a competition and there are other people involved - everyone else goes for the standard tosspot approach of "I'm awesome and Sugar's a fool if I don't win."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5JDKwnBr...

[ewolg]

The series that the fast forward button was designed for.....

[StevieBee]

This started out as an interesting and entertaining show but has morphed into nothing more than a game show. Very little of the content bares any resemblance to the realities of business.

A few years back, a company I use (large format and vinyl printing) was featured in one of the episodes. I say 'featured'.....

The idea was that both teams needed to prepare some publicity materials for something they were organising and were dispatched to this company to design and make these banners. Off camera, my friend had set up some 'unfinished' designs and showed them how to finish them off and how to use the machines that printed everything out so that on camera, it appeared as if they were expert graphic designers and printers. Despite being neither, they actually made a pretty good job of it and seemed to get on well with one another. This obviously wouldn't have made good telly so the Producer asked them to repeat the process and contrived arguments, asked my friend to load the paper incorrectly and other 'adjustments' necessary to introduce drama.

The company received no fee (only the cost of the consumables) but were permitted to use their involvement in their publicity post airing. This my friend did, appearing on local radio the morning of the show and the like. When the show aired, it was exactly like when Mick was on the News in Gavin and Stacey.... "is that it?" They were there an entire day and the sum total of what was aired were two on them at a Mac designing and one shown trying to figure out the printing machine.

[the-norseman]

https://bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/the-appre...

Candidates are all there, look a boring bunch to be honest.

[Deranged Rover]

“My most creative instincts flow through my excel-sheet colour coding”

[The Gauge]

I’m surprised they haven’t started box ticking yet by including candidates with special needs, disabled, neurodiverse passports etc.

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

cliffords said:

I loved it when it came out. Applied myself many many years ago. I really liked the programme. I have not watched the past few years. It's utterly repetitive. Not in a good way like Beer or Cake.

You wouldnt have been the first PH'er to apply or indeed start.

Series 2 had Tuan Le, who was a pistonheader and documented some of his experiences in a thread on 'the apprentice' in 2006

wonder what became of him? - he didn't win

https://the-apprentice-uk.fandom.com/wiki/Series_2

Edited by Dynion Araf Uchaf on Tuesday 21st January 15:48

[Chauffard]

The Gauge said:

I’m surprised they haven’t started box ticking yet by including candidates with special needs, disabled, neurodiverse passports etc.

The selection process seem to concentrate on the hotness of the female contestants, I doubt the plain chubby lassies get pointed to the door marked EXIT.

[RacingBlue]

I said after the train wreck of the last series I was done with The Apprentice. It had become formulaic beyond belief.

So, see you on 30th Jan.

[Plastic chicken]

The Gauge said:

I’m surprised they haven’t started box ticking yet by including candidates with special needs, disabled, neurodiverse passports etc.

They could start by including more ethnic minorities - like Scots or Welsh people.

[John Henry]

What a shame this programme shifted focus. The contestants in the earlier series, at least a few, seemed genuinely engaged and in some cases, quite talented.
Latterly, they mostly appear hungry for fame,
Always with the same type of business. The tasks rarely change and it all feels totally contrived. Which it apparently is. For the first time since it started, we won’t bother this year.

[the-norseman]

Its an easy way to get your face on TV now for your TV career or social media influencer career.

[FourWheelDrift]

It's the same types of businesses again they run, there's always a motivational speaker, someone in health & beauty etc, but no cake shop owners this time, that is unusual but I suppose a Pizza company makes up for it.

[Dimebars]

Put them all in a shipping container, lock it and walk away...............

[redrabbit29]

I love watching The Apprentice. The whole time I hate the show but just can't look away, and it becomes a bit of a cheap form of entertainment. However, seeing the contestents this time just makes me hate them all before it even starts.

There really is a theme to the show now on who they choose. Women looking bhy and putting on a power pose, the guys in cheap fitting suits and designer beards, plus the classic "I'm just like Lord Sugar" character *yawn*

[The Gauge]

Next Thursday 9pm

https://youtu.be/4Fz2omuy-_o?si=nDZOm7bm72pf3f8B

Edited by The Gauge on Saturday 25th January 16:25

[tim0409]

Here we go….