The Apprentice (series 11) - official thread

Wozza · Oct 6, 2015

Usual collection of chumps. Lack of totty, I think?! :-(

Weekly does of Claude Littner could be fun, though.

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Wozza · Oct 6, 2015

Starts Wed 14 Oct, btw.

Pevenseagull · Oct 6, 2015

I am quite literally a business monster. I deficate success without straining.

Guinness Boy · Oct 6, 2015

Have they still not renamed it C

t of the Year?

n1 gull · Oct 6, 2015

my favourite tv programme - best comedy on telly

Simster · Oct 6, 2015

Just call me in 3 months after all these muppets have embarrassed themselves and everyone watching ends up moaning at the entirely flawed concept (when by far the most competent contestant turns out to have an absolutely shithouse business proposal). AGAIN.

dazzer6666 · Oct 6, 2015

Can't Watch Won't Watch. Garbage.

Man of Harveys · Oct 6, 2015

Can't wait to find out who might be the new Katie Hopkins.

hans kraay fan club · Oct 6, 2015

If you ignore the fact that the premise is flawed, and ignore the fact that (at least) half of the contestants just want a slice of reality TV pie, rather than a business opportunity, then The Apprentice is great. Its funny watching them cock up, and watching their inflated egos get punctured.

Its also one of very, very few things on TV that myself, my wife and our two teenage sons ALL enjoy watching together.

dazzer6666 · Oct 6, 2015

hans kraay fan club said:
If you ignore the fact that the premise is flawed, and ignore the fact that (at least) half of the contestants just want a slice of reality TV pie, rather than a business opportunity, then The Apprentice is great. Its funny watching them cock up, and watching their inflated egos get punctured.

Its also one of very, very few things on TV that myself, my wife and our two teenage sons ALL enjoy watching together.

You sound like a family that should be on gogglebox

hans kraay fan club · Oct 6, 2015

dazzer6666 said:
You sound like a family that should be on gogglebox

Ah - never seen it, so don't know whether to be OFFENDED or not...

dazzer6666 · Oct 6, 2015

hans kraay fan club said:
Ah - never seen it, so don't know whether to be OFFENDED or not...

Phew

Man of Harveys · Oct 6, 2015

hans kraay fan club said:
Ah - never seen it, so don't know whether to be OFFENDED or not...

I would be. It features the lowest average IQ on television, possibly apart from a) Snog, Marry, Avoid b) Dinner Date and c) the Conservative party conference.

Whitechapel · Oct 6, 2015

After reading about them all I'm quite confident this could be the biggest collection if DINLOS yet. Not sure who I hate more already, the "Geezer Bird" or the "Godfather of Business". Officially excited.

NooBHA · Oct 6, 2015

Anyone who takes part in this must be the ''spawn'' of Dsinghis Kahn and ready cut their friends and neighbor's throat in an instant. Not my sort of people at all. However had the pleasure to meet Claude the guy who is now in the Boardroom and who used to do the interviews, the other week.

He is really really nice bloke and a pure gentleman in real life. He is also quite small. He always looked really tall and quite evil when I saw him on TV before

theboybilly · Oct 6, 2015

Man of Harveys said:
Can't wait to find out who might be the new Katie Hopkins.

What's wrong with Katie Hopkins?

oneillco · Oct 6, 2015

I agree with you Hans Kraay Fan Club it is great entertainment unless you are a bit dim and therefore take it all too seriously.

Stato · Oct 6, 2015

Guinness Boy said:
Have they still not renamed it Ct of the Year?

Hasn't Sugar already won that himself with his comments on Sadiq Khan when he precursed his opinion that Khan as London mayor would contribute to stopping the market with the words 'I don't know the fellow, or what he stands for'?

Pavilionaire · Oct 6, 2015

hans kraay fan club said:
If you ignore the fact that the premise is flawed, and ignore the fact that (at least) half of the contestants just want a slice of reality TV pie, rather than a business opportunity, then The Apprentice is great. Its funny watching them cock up, and watching their inflated egos get punctured.

If only more checks were done re the business plans of the contestants then the whole show would have more validity. I'm not asking for full-on due diligence, but at least a check that the business plans are viable enough for Sugar to invest in principle, and that the plan itself passes basic "fit for purpose" checks.

Too often you invest time in this series only to find out at the death that the contestant reaches the last 5 but has a business that Sugar never had the faintest intention of investing in, or that the venture itself is workable but the plan was written by a 5 year-old so is a non-starter.

Tooting Gull · Oct 6, 2015

Always found it entertaining TV, in a 'don't take it very seriously' kind of way.

The change of role for Claude is a big call, and I think they may have got that wrong. I'd have brought in someone else. Part of the fun and build-up of expectation was to see the contestants get slaughtered and pulled apart by him in the interviews. You get away with that for a one-off, but I'm not sure anyone wants a whole series of that, every episode.

I suspect either people will get sick of him with the exposure, OR he'll be told to tone it down and won't be the same animal, neither of which is good.

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