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He’s a right creepy c*nt. They say to never trust someone who’s eyes are close together

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Yes it's useless really, I'm sure if you put Sugar, Karen and Tim on a team in the kitchen they'd be terrible too. Would they accept that meant they know nothing about business? When I went to a presentation at another company recently they catered it with outside catering rather than deploy a team of non qualified in house people to wing it. Like any sane person would. There are plenty of relevant tasks they could be doing that didn't rely on square pegs in round holes.
 
In previous years the tasks were so much better and had more variety, plus they always started with simpler tasks that eventually got more complex/'high stakes'. Like the first task would always be some sort of market stall selling. And once a lot of the crappy filler contestants were weeded out they'd get really interesting ones like selling art at a gallery (one of my all time favourite episodes is Tre Azam bullshitting his way through explaining art that he hated and the customers lapping it up), or real estate, or even cars. They never do tasks like that any more, half the tasks seem to involve cooking and the other half creating some crappy app and ad campaign.
 
Definitely agree the show has lost an awful lot of what made it so enjoyable to watch in the earlier series. To see the tasks become progressively more challenging and give contestants the opportunity to truly show off their business acumen, sales abilities and tactical thinking.
Now it just seems to be about posers and cheap laughs in scenes that have quite obviously been set up for the cameras.

Every year I say I'm done with watching it, yet here I am again 🤡
 
Sw4 said:
In previous years the tasks were so much better and had more variety, plus they always started with simpler tasks that eventually got more complex/'high stakes'. Like the first task would always be some sort of market stall selling. And once a lot of the crappy filler contestants were weeded out they'd get really interesting ones like selling art at a gallery (one of my all time favourite episodes is Tre Azam bullshitting his way through explaining art that he hated and the customers lapping it up), or real estate, or even cars. They never do tasks like that any more, half the tasks seem to involve cooking and the other half creating some crappy app and ad campaign.
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Or making a video game which doesn’t show someone having good business skills. You have to be fully qualified for half the tasks they’re expected to do and be good at.
I like the tasks where they have to find the items and get them for cheap.
I like the away day tasks and event planning tasks but it should be them haggling prices with the caterer not cooking it themselves. This is very unrealistic. Even entertaining the guests doesn’t show being a good business person unless you’re claiming to be an entertainer or run an entertainment business.

The show needs a new format. Each week the tasks should be designed around the business plans that each candidate is trying to pitch. So if someone is a dentist etc do a task around a dental company or a sweet business. Each person would then get the chance to be project manager leading the task in their field of expertise. That way, no one is fired for a silly reasons like putting the wrong breadcrumbs on the fish…
Do interview task sooner in the show and put all the candidates under that type of pressure.
Instead of them having to do tasks like make the chocolate, they should simply be given a piece of chocolate and told to brand it based on the taste. That way, the chocolate is already going to taste nice they just have to use their marketing and selling skills to pitch it to people.
The show would work much better that way.

I also cringe at the fact Alan tries to tell a joke after every sentence. It’s clear someone writes them for him. It’s not okay for them to mess around and have a laugh but you can make a joke every 0.5 seconds.
 
I feel the show has lost it's appeal. Sugar thinks ppl are lazy for working from home so won't allow his staff to do but it's only because he's losing money from his corporate properties.
All the tasks are the same and the production team won't let him fire any entertaining or ethnic candidates too soon otherwise they lose ratings. He's seen the businesses the candidates have proposed and already knows which ones he likes so those candidates will stay till the end. It's all a con really. The TV show is just for entertainment and not a real reflection of business
 
rewieble said:
I feel the show has lost it's appeal. Sugar thinks ppl are lazy for working from home so won't allow his staff to do but it's only because he's losing money from his corporate properties.
All the tasks are the same and the production team won't let him fire any entertaining or ethnic candidates too soon otherwise they lose ratings. He's seen the businesses the candidates have proposed and already knows which ones he likes so those candidates will stay till the end. It's all a con really. The TV show is just for entertainment and not a real reflection of business
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I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, but it’s a bit eye rolly how they’ve obviously chosen the candidates to have a range of ethnicities, it’s too representative to be an accident. I’d rather just see the best people, even if they were all white men.

This also goes for them having 50% men and 50% women teams. Why is that needed?! I’m a woman myself obviously but I’d rather see more men if they were more entertaining, and vice versa
 
soph30 said:
I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, but it’s a bit eye rolly how they’ve obviously chosen the candidates to have a range of ethnicities, it’s too representative to be an accident. I’d rather just see the best people, even if they were all white men.

This also goes for them having 50% men and 50% women teams. Why is that needed?! I’m a woman myself obviously but I’d rather see more men if they were more entertaining, and vice versa
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True, it's not a dating show where you need equal candidates, and the fact people are chosen to tick a box is disappointing. It's an entertainment show, so it should just pick the funniest and smartest people. I watch programmes if they are interesting, not because they have someone who may look like me. Sugar himself is a known bigot.

It'll be nice if TV channels took more risks with shows in terms of not always trying to be diverse.

With regards to the Apprentice, Sugar has gone past his sell by date. You know when he leaves they will replace him with a woman.
 
There wasn’t a shopping television task last year which was a shame and now Ideal World has gone I doubt any other channel would have them.
 
chickenlittle367 said:
The show needs a new format. Each week the tasks should be designed around the business plans that each candidate is trying to pitch. So if someone is a dentist etc do a task around a dental company or a sweet business. Each person would then get the chance to be project manager leading the task in their field of expertise. That way, no one is fired for a silly reasons like putting the wrong breadcrumbs on the fish…
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Not sure how that would work. Surely each task takes weeks/months in advance to plan for. Each person wouldn’t get to do a task based around their business plan because they could get fired before that week came around? They couldn’t say next week we were going to do a salon based task based on person X’s business plan but we fired them this week so we’ll do one on someone else’s instead. The planning from the production team for that abandoned task would have been for nothing
 
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