Topic: The Apprentice

[Crosby Nick]

Artic FFS

And there’s no penguins in the Arctic. Apart from that, looked great.

Not seen the boardroom bit yet, but if that team loses I bet the PM is thrilled she has a team to blame that on!

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Think it was right for Francesca to go really.. the format of the show doesn't and shouldn't allow for previous good performances to be taken into account, really?

And not only did she get Arctic wrong, but she just came across as a pretty horrid person when dealing with the other female on her sub team.

[RedSince86]

Would have been quite funnier if they said well we change the location to Antartica after the Penguin query and that guy said well they are no Polar Bears down in Antartica, just to see their reactions.

Not sure why they didn't go with a shooting game and then said to those games people that eventually you could add a battle Royale game mode to it, that would have been a winner.

Again the Guys are fucking useless, actually this is the worst season of competitors, but it will be a final five of Girls.

[killer-heels]

That was a really hard task. How on earth can you make an amazing game in one or two days?

[Crosby Nick]

That was a really hard task. How on earth can you make an amazing game in one or two days?

Yeah the comments about the prison game being a bit boring were very harsh given the timings. But then maybe they were just told to be critical, and they did place their hypothetical orders.

Francesca may have spelt Arctic wrong but the two others could and should have said something. Slippery Akshay survives another one!

[jillcwhomever]

Francesca doesn't let anyone speak and I think she deserved to go for the spelling mistake alone, that was bad. Also the way she treated the other female (can't remember her name) in the sub team was diabolical leadership.

[jillcwhomever]

They may have just got away with artic on the branding if the voiceover didn't also mention it several times.
Agree if she's taken Ashkay in it would have been curtains.

For that many people not to know how to spell arctic was hilarious, but it's a bit rich when Sugar has a go at people when his grammar is often cringeworthy.

There is no way they'd have got away with the spelling mistake. Both members of the public when they were testing the game on them and the experts were speechless at that basic error. Sugar's grammar isn't much better I agree but it's was a huge mistake for them to make.

[The G in Gerrard]

Older ginger lady or Akshay to go next.

[west_london_red]

Probably been said before but is it me or are the contestants getting thicker and thicker each year? I’m sure once upon a time they were actually quite bright but now it just seems to be people are selected to make arses of themselves on TV.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Probably been said before but is it me or are the contestants getting thicker and thicker each year? I’m sure once upon a time they were actually quite bright but now it just seems to be people are selected to make arses of themselves on TV.

Probably. But the editing also makes them come across as stupider than they are, and the tasks are setup to make them fail.

[Musketeer Gripweed]

It always makes me think none of them have ever watched the show before. They make the same mistakes every year, come across as arrogant pricks every year in every interview they give and argue like schoolkids in the boardroom every year.

Its almost as if it was scripted. Still love watching it through my fingers with gritted teeth though.

[Graeme]

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[Circa1892]

Next week the candidates design and then make by hand a new car

Just a week or two out with this guess…

[iamnant]

An interesting week for me as a native of Snowdonia.

I've filmed Shaun who runs Zip World and he would have loved acting a dick to that team (clearly told to do that by the production team) -- big ego on that fella. Also filmed the owner of the shop with the cheeses -- really, really nice guy.

But I had a big shock when one of my mates was on there as part of the ZipWorld tour, who I go to Anfield with (he's a ST holder in the Kenny). I had to ask him all the details of what it was like and he said they re-do all of the shots and said it was a long, long day of retakes and stops and starts. The production company told them what questions to ask (they were told to ask "What kind of food do they eat" in the quarry canteen, for example). They get told what price they should settle on and haggle for as well!

He said all the contestants were really nice as was most of the production team apart from Amy who he said didn't want to know and was stuck up her own arse.

[Red Viper]

Thought that was one of the better "run a tour" tasks in recent years. Usually they're a car crash with loads of refunds but both teams did alright, just poor selling on the losing team let them down.

[Wild Romany Boy]

Thought that was one of the better "run a tour" tasks in recent years. Usually they're a car crash with loads of refunds but both teams did alright, just poor selling on the losing team let them down.

Yeah, it must have been edited with a clearer narrative than usual, because the tours didn't look good, or that well run, but there were no refunds.

[sinnermichael]

Right person went for once. She just dodged any responsibility.

[sinnermichael]

Today's Wordle.

[redgriffin73]

Was surprised the train trip team didn't lose, that painting session looked an absolute farce! Glad Amy went though, although how Aaron is still there is beyond me.

[iamnant]

The most obvious firing since The Apprentice began tonight. What an absolute shit show of a PM.

[Graeme]

The most obvious firing since The Apprentice began tonight. What an absolute shit show of a PM.

Yeah, compounded by the fact that she’s a little weak when it comes to an argument and you could see the others rounding on her.

[Libertine]

The most obvious firing since The Apprentice began tonight. What an absolute shit show of a PM.

Not even Sugar could have fucked that up.

Dreadful performance. And her attempts to justify it were painful to watch.

[Trada]

I would love to see a series of this with just ordinary working  people with no business experience just normal jobs and unemployed doing the same things and judged the same.

To see how they go about the tasks and interact with businesses.

[Charlie Adams fried egg]

That was awful. I didn't catch the full briefing, but surely when there is potentially a wide range of customers, the obvious answer is to go vanilla on the basis it is least likely to offend and therefore work for the maximum number of clients.

I know it's heavily edited but one of Wembley/NEC even told them about their wide and varied events and therefore customers. Anyone who's ever been around those venues will know that there's plenty of potential for long walks between key venues and that's what the driverless vehicles would be there to help with. I looked at the NEC site and they have these in operation doing 1 mile shuttles along a road onsite.

They're so convinced of their own brilliance that they ignore the obvious. Oh I've designed my own bar therefore these high profile serious venues offering wide ranging events are going to lease a load of driverless pods themed like, oh a bar.

[Chris~]

I'm guessing like how they have to wear the costumes which make them look stupid they're told they can't just go grey or white and have to have patterns/colours etc.

[Charlie Adams fried egg]

^ Maybe, but even if that is the brief there'll still be plenty of scope not to produce something that is totally shit.

This is the NEC vehicle
https://www.thenec.co.uk/press-and-news/solihull-and-the-nec-lead-the-drive-in-driverless-technology/

It's not great, but it has a bit of local and national branding on it and looks appropriate for the NEC and the wide variety of events that it hosts.

What the NEC probably wouldn't have is a fleet of party pods or ones with a load of bees on them.

[El Lobo]

I'm sure there must be some form of nudging them in certain directions. It'd be pretty boring TV if they just made generic silver pods with generic insides, purely for the purpose of shuttling people as you say, and all of the investors and event companies bought a load from both teams.

[amir87]

I'd be surprised if that was true.

Sugar asks why there's a karaoke machine in the pod and gets a reply of "because Gaz from production said do it for the lolz"

[Chris~]

^ Maybe, but even if that is the brief there'll still be plenty of scope not to produce something that is totally shit.

This is the NEC vehicle
https://www.thenec.co.uk/press-and-news/solihull-and-the-nec-lead-the-drive-in-driverless-technology/

It's not great, but it has a bit of local and national branding on it and looks appropriate for the NEC and the wide variety of events that it hosts.

What the NEC probably wouldn't have is a fleet of party pods or ones with a load of bees on them.

You know how it goes though, too plain and they get told how is this different to what we have, needed a USP etc. Not to mention neither side gets to see what the other is doing until the end and seem to only be allowed about a minute to talk to each other during the design process, being pushed down certain paths it's going to look a bit shit even if they were really good on the tasks.

[El Lobo]

I'd be surprised if that was true.

Sugar asks why there's a karaoke machine in the pod and gets a reply of "because Gaz from production said do it for the lolz"

Well maybe not to that extent, but there's no way they've got nine legit business people who then come up with the shite they come up with without being prompted to make it more entertaining....surely. Or that Akeem isn't aware that he's literally changing every single decision when he's PM if someone suggests he should, after being told he needs to be more assertive

Maybe I'm just giving them too much credit though and they are all absolute fuckwits

[Red Viper]

The whole format of the tasks now is so tired and stupid. Having each team split up into two teams who then have to work on the same product without communicating is just ridiculous and not how any people in the real world actually work.

It's all just set up for them to fail every single week and I don't understand why the show has to be that way.

[Chris~]

The whole format of the tasks now is so tired and stupid. Having each team split up into two teams who then have to work on the same product without communicating is just ridiculous and not how any people in the real world actually work.

It's all just set up for them to fail every single week and I don't understand why the show has to be that way.

Because it's only way is Essex levels of reality TV. They'll already have a few people who they want to win based on business ideas and background checks, the rest is entertainment. They get put in 'real' situations that are heavily edited/scripted/set up to laugh at them

[iamnant]

I'm sure there must be some form of nudging them in certain directions. It'd be pretty boring TV if they just made generic silver pods with generic insides, purely for the purpose of shuttling people as you say, and all of the investors and event companies bought a load from both teams.

Lottie from a previous series said as much in a Q&A (it might have been posted in this thread) and that they only have a handful of options for each task and have to choose from specific groups of colours. So I don't think you're far off.

[iamnant]

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[amir87]

Lottie from a previous series said as much in a Q&A (it might have been posted in this thread) and that they only have a handful of options for each task and have to choose from specific groups of colours. So I don't think you're far off.

That's mad if true.

Surely in that case when they're getting an absolute grilling in the boardroom the temptation must be to just say outright the reason why they made such a diabolical decision.

Would have expected more and more people who didn't do well on the show to come out and speak about this.

[iamnant]

That's mad if true.

Surely in that case when they're getting an absolute grilling in the boardroom the temptation must be to just say outright the reason why they made such a diabolical decision.

Would have expected more and more people who didn't do well on the show to come out and speak about this.

They're under quite a strict contract -- not sure what the penalties are, but not great I assume. Have a look at that link above, it's quite interesting.

[sinnermichael]

Thank God she's gone, the horrible, miserable bint.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Surely in that case when they're getting an absolute grilling in the boardroom the temptation must be to just say outright the reason why they made such a diabolical decision.

Then they just edit it out?

Would have expected more and more people who didn't do well on the show to come out and speak about this.

NDA's!

The show is just pure reality TV at this point and if you watch closely you can see the cuts when they're trying to make the contestants look as stupid as possible.

Even silly little things like at the start yesterday with the phone call. "4am" says the narrator, then 30 minutes later they're walking out the house in broad daylight.

[Graeme]

Lottie confirmed in an earlier TikTok video though that the getting up at that hour and only having 30 minutes is true. It is filmed in the Summer usually.

[The G in Gerrard]

Harpreet in the hat was highlight of yesterday's show.