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Post by riotgrrl on May 10, 2011 10:43:00 GMT
The Apprentice is back, hip hip hooray. Let's have a thread about it! Who all loves the Apprentice?  |
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Post by everso on May 10, 2011 16:12:42 GMT
Mr. E. loves The Apprentice. I absolutely detest it. Sorry.
It seems to be leaning towards Big Brother with some of the oddball characters this time.
I shan't be watching it.
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Post by Weyland on May 10, 2011 16:48:08 GMT
Mr. E. loves The Apprentice. I absolutely detest it. Sorry. It seems to be leaning towards Big Brother with some of the oddball characters this time. I shan't be watching it. You're fired. |
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Post by everso on May 10, 2011 17:35:55 GMT
No really. Alan Sugar makes me cross. And all those sharp-faced birds and dopey blokes. No ta!
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Post by Weyland on May 10, 2011 18:19:01 GMT
No really. Alan Sugar makes me cross. And all those sharp-faced birds and dopey blokes. No ta! I know why I like it. Sadism. I get a good laugh out of the sharp-faced birds and dopey blokes making a mess of just about everything. I particularly remember a team buying fridge-sized slabs of budget dyed cheddar at Makro to sell in France. Priceless. Unaccountably, I quite like Srallan ..er.. I mean Lord Sugar, even though the products he made his millions out of were as crap as the cheese. And the candidates. |
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Post by everso on May 10, 2011 23:37:45 GMT
Well, Mr. E. watched it - then fell asleep 10 minutes before it ended.  I lay on the sofa rustling the Daily Mail very loudly. |
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Post by trubble on May 11, 2011 7:05:20 GMT
I expect he'd already worked out who should get fired and anyway, wasn't he just resting his eyes but still listening?
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Post by Weyland on May 11, 2011 7:55:42 GMT
Well, Mr. E. watched it - then fell asleep 10 minutes before it ended. Not surprising. It was even more predictable than usual. Jumped-up Project Manager with no discernable skills whatsoever. The rest of the team could have taken the day off and he'd still have been the fired one. Clearly hand-picked to start the series off with a total knacker. There are, of course, other obvious knackers in the pack. The women's PM, Melody, was a gushing drip ("taught by Al Gore, the Dalai Lama, and Desmond Tutu"), but there's no way her team could have lost without murdering Nick. (I like "gushing drip".) It's Political Incorrectness gone mad! |
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Post by everso on May 11, 2011 14:22:33 GMT
The Daily Mail rustles very well.
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Post by everso on May 11, 2011 14:23:22 GMT
I expect he'd already worked out who should get fired and anyway, wasn't he just resting his eyes but still listening? Possibly. It's the "relaxed breathing" that gets to me though. |
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Post by Weyland on May 13, 2011 8:25:40 GMT
 You can see this calibre of project management, and often even worse, on every episode of The Apprentice. The latest one fired was on FiveLive yesterday, telling us quite seriously that the candidates are very carefully selected and are the best business brains in Britain. God help us all. Both teams' efforts in the task — design and promote a smart-phone app — resulted in two unbelievably childish wastes of time. None of them could design a beer-mat, and yet touch screen – hear "funny" noise = 10,000+ downloads. God help us all. |
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Post by trubble on May 13, 2011 8:52:12 GMT
Don't blame the designers, blame the internets!  (and that's exactly how I was sucked in). And I just like this motto.  |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on May 13, 2011 11:22:36 GMT
I've never ever watched The Apprentice, mainly because I don't like Alan Sugar, but also because I just know it's another one of those reality shows which use actors and scripts....it's a false reality, and people are sucked in by it.
Many many years ago when I attended the Italia Conti stage school, the agency received an urgent phonecall requesting young people to act as passers by in the street stopped for interviews for a That's Life piece. Myself and three others were driven down to Bath in our pristine Italia Conti school uniforms and we were interviewed as 'schoolchildren on our way to school'....can't for the life of me recall what I was told to say but it was something to do with skateboards...it was 1980. The giveaway was when the programme was broadcast viewers could clearly see the Italia Conti emblem on our blazers. It appeared no viewer picked up on that. As myself and my family gathered round the TV to watch 'me' I was then deeply upset as they had cut my bit out. But a relatively easy £50 for half a day's work.
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Post by trubble on May 13, 2011 13:14:53 GMT
You're wrong about the Apprentice. It's formulaic and a set up to some extent because it's predominantly a TV Show. It's got one foot in the reality vein but a bigger foot in the gameshow genre. The contestants aren't stooges. The tasks are real. Anything can be done in the editing but it doesn't appear to be too mangled.
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on May 13, 2011 13:45:12 GMT
You're wrong about the Apprentice. It's formulaic and a set up to some extent because it's predominantly a TV Show. It's got one foot in the reality vein but a bigger foot in the gameshow genre. The contestants aren't stooges. The tasks are real. Anything can be done in the editing but it doesn't appear to be too mangled. Indeed Trubble and people would have said the same about That's Life all those years ago. We know it happens in X Factor and we know it happens in Big Brother,,,how is the Apprentice any different? It's a TV show and all TV shows are scripted and rehearsed...I'm sorry to disappoint you. |
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Post by riotgrrl on May 13, 2011 16:57:12 GMT
I bow to nobody in my love for The Apprentice, and this one is shaping up to be a cracker. Is it just my impression, or do the boys usually lose the first couple of weeks (Because they tend to be younger and more macho?) and then the girls fall apart and start getting bitchy? So if I'm right, par for the course so far. But that woman who was the PM for the girls last night . . she's rubbish. And not as funny as the oriental-looking girl who was trying to explain her idea for an app . . 'say I'm next to you, you're me, I'm you', etc. WTF?  But the BEST BEST BEST bit was when the male PM was going to take Irish Jim back into the boardroom and Jim said 'No, you don't want to do that'. As it was described in the 'You're Fired' programme later, total Jedi mind control. It was freaky. I'm going to start doing that. Just telling people exactly what to do in an Irish accent. I think it'll work. |
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Post by riotgrrl on May 13, 2011 17:05:19 GMT
None of them could design a beer-mat, and yet touch screen – hear "funny" noise = 10,000+ downloads. God help us all. You old curmudgeon. Most apps are downloaded, like, by 16 year old girls, like, OMG. They're doing no harm. Leave them alone. Actually, I like the brainy science guy who's idea for an app was "traffic lights" "no sorry, that's it". There was definitely something a bit zen in that idea. |
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Post by Weyland on May 13, 2011 19:51:01 GMT
You're wrong about the Apprentice. It's formulaic and a set up to some extent because it's predominantly a TV Show. It's got one foot in the reality vein but a bigger foot in the gameshow genre. The contestants aren't stooges. The tasks are real. Anything can be done in the editing but it doesn't appear to be too mangled. And yet all, or almost all, of the candidates are clueless buffoons. They certainly act that way. Even the ones with alleged actual skills, such as engineers, come across as clueless. The rest — estate agents, sales executives, recruitment consultants, and allied vermin — perform as you'd expect, only I cannot imagine why any programme aiming for any credibility at all would ever choose them. |
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Post by riotgrrl on May 19, 2011 9:05:56 GMT
Well, the wrong man went home last night for sure! Sugar needs to get shot of that Belgian moustachiod creepy creepy creep guy. The incompetent scouser was, at least, inoffensive.
Early days still - and we don't have their names all in our head yet - but:
LIKING - Geeky inventor guy. The panel on 'You've Been Fired' last night were saying 'oh he's just not been tested yet', but hey, last night he was the one who actually sourced and negotiated for some of the stuff.
- Short-blonde hair slightly older women, possibly Northern - the woman from whom creepy creepy Belgian guy 'snatched' the phone (he didn't really, but he was rude.)
NO LIKEY - slightly older black woman, who did the incredibly bad app presentation to the fanboy convention.
NO SURE - Young Chinese-looking girl who was team leader last night. A bit immature?
Your views people?
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Post by trubble on May 19, 2011 12:28:55 GMT
Dara O'Brian (or however he spells it, I can't be bothered to check, people should have easier names) is too, too, TOO good at what he does. He is an impediment to a lively thread here.
The first thing he said on the after-show last night was brilliant, for example. The bit about us not recalling the girls' total by the time Karen had finished relaying the boys' one. (Why is it boys and girls and not women and men, by the way?)
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