The Apprentice UK #3

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Don’t forget the power of their being a tv crew there. People forget themselves a bit because of that and suddenly £13 for a cheesecake seems ok if they might spot themselves on a tv programme for a few seconds.
any excursion you pay for on holiday is essentially a stranger on the street with a blackboard as well, so not that out of the realms of possibility you would do it. And if it all goes wrong then you’ve got a story to tell all your friends and family about that time you were behind the scenes on a tv programme
 
Anybody that thinks the customers, be it individual "passers by" or business representatives in a conference room, are real is going to have their minds blown when they find out that the tasks aren't actually once-weekly like the show likes to make out :eek:. And the "send them in please" woman is just another extra :LOL:

They might have been real people wandering by in the very old days of selling overpriced ice lollies to kids in London Zoo etc but these days making TV is a minefield of release forms, covid tests, accounting for the cash etc.

If they do let the candidates loose near the general public, they're taken aside and explained that it's The Apprentice, given their £13 cheesecake spends back etc. Those sort of costs are nothing in the overall cost of making the show.
 
Surely every negotiation with corporate clients is just fabrication now and probably has been for years.

The clients know that they are contestants on a TV show. That's why it's so cringe making when they start their pitches with something like
"we're a cheescake brand that offers high quality blah blah..." no you're not and the customer knows that 😄

The 'orders' they place are just fakery for the show. No money would change hands at all.
 
Scotch Mist said:
Surely every negotiation with corporate clients is just fabrication now and probably has been for years.

The clients know that they are contestants on a TV show. That's why it's so cringe making when they start their pitches with something like
"we're a cheescake brand that offers high quality blah blah..." no you're not and the customer knows that 😄

The 'orders' they place are just fakery for the show. No money would change hands at all.
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Same when in the past they've bulk-sold the last several boxes of whatever food they've made to some small shop or restaurant. As if ANY shop or restaurant these days is going to chance selling any food stuff from some randomers that walked in off the street and which doesn't come with full provenance of every little thing it was made from.
 
I forget the season, but I seem to remember some chocolates being available in a few supermarkets one year. This could have been some promotion with the winner or runner up, rather than anything to do with a task. All I can remember clearly is that I didn't enjoy the confectionery.
 
Wynonna said:
It's very annoying how fake the boardroom scenes are, when Alan stalls before he fires someone "It's with regret... that you've failed this task..."
I'm sure it didn't used to be that obviously fake?
Reminds me of the scene in Family Guy
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Yeah he's definitely hammed it up, saying 'with regret' or 'regretfully' and pausing a million times to make you think someone else is about to be fired.

I liked it when 'with regret' was only used when he fired someone that was actually a credible candidate, it kind of used to be like a badge of honour.

The show is just reality trash now really. Will I keep watching though? Yep!
 
I used to love the Apprentice cos my daughter and I watched it together, and it was good clean family viewing and we'd both share our thoughts. She's now doing her GCSEs which includes Business Studies and after two episodes she said she can't watch anymore cos of how awful the contestants not just in their understanding of business but their personalities as a whole. There seems to be no understanding of working as a team and they're always just calculating who they can throw under the bus in the boardroom. I don't understand why the BBC doesn't pay attention. Its such a lazy show and when little Alan Sugar decides to leave they either need to change the show drastically or end it.
 
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