[TV] The Apprentice 2025

[Simster]

Last night was one of the worse episodes for a long time. Just such inept candidates. Alan Sugar dealing out unfunny one-liners. Karen Brady giving really nonconstructive feedback.
Personally think the series has been done to death now,

Interesting. I have to say that both teams being absolute dog shit is nothing new, but I felt Sugar showed a bit of integrity by saying they both lost. And I like most of his one-liners, to be fair.

As for Brady, I agree with you there - she hardly ever says anything constructive. She's worse than half of the candidates and I don't understand why she's still on the show. She really should have been binned off a decade ago.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Interesting. I have to say that both teams being absolute dog shit is nothing new, but I felt Sugar showed a bit of integrity by saying they both lost. And I like most of his one-liners, to be fair.

As for Brady, I agree with you there - she hardly ever says anything constructive. She's worse than half of the candidates and I don't understand why she's still on the show. She really should have been binned off a decade ago.

And her sycophantic chuckling at Sralan's 'jokes' is really, really iritating.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I think you've forgotten Katie Hopkins!

I haven't, and I agree with @hans kraay fan club. Katie Hopkins has some hideous views but somehow Nadia managed to be even more repulsive.

Yes - I stand by it. Hopkins is clearly an absolute gorgon, but at the time of being a contestant on the show, she didn't stand out as being as utterly repulsive as Nadia did.

 

[Weststander]

She looked absolutely gorgeous on You’re Fired afterwards

Is that on iPlayer?

 

[Randy McNob]

Last night was one of the worse episodes for a long time. Just such inept candidates. Alan Sugar dealing out unfunny one-liners. Karen Brady giving really nonconstructive feedback.
Personally think the series has been done to death now,

Sure it's fairly obvious they only pick people who make good telly rather than smart cookies. They would just smash every task and it wouldn't be much of a programme.

I think the credentials required to be on the apprentice would be:

Extremely elevated self opinion to the point of delusion and nausea
repetoir of bullshit mangement phrases
lack of self awareness
misguided view of entreprenuership
Can-do and go-getter Personality traits that are actually cantakerous and obnoxious

 

[kevo]

Last night was one of the worse episodes for a long time.

I dunno - quite funny to see both teams (deservedly) lose.

 

[rippleman]

You put two boys in a kitchen and tell them to make a "hot sauce" and it was almost inevitable that they would make it "hotter than hell" and therefore totally commercially unviable. And then in the other kitchen a girl who has a food business, and designs sauces for use in her recipes, makes a sauce that can't be extracted from the bottle, and then "forgot" to provide THE PRODUCT for the advert.

And yet all three survived. I'm beginning to doubt Sugar's business acumen and decision making.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I had thought this lot were the best crop of candidates for many years, until last night.

This hot sauce episode exposed the flaws in the show. I wish the edit would cut the morning time filming the candidates getting dressed and chatting in the cars and use that time to cover the inception of the product design and the strategy, as it is the crucial part of the task.

The team leader is selected from audition based on bigging up their dodgy CVs, and only when they've selected the leader do they then find out their ideas are lame. They've already started throwing other team mates under the bus before they've even left the room.

If Dean comes up with Bangin Sauce at the outset then they have the name, the team can jointly agree on a flavour to appeal to the young target market, the ad isn't a lame prison job but a student kitchen that becomes a rave the moment Bangin Sauce drops from the bottle to the pan.

I think the show sets them up to fail, and it then becomes predictable. I think it would be more entertaining if recurring mediocrity was interspersed with genuine moments of brilliance and inspiration because I think the candidates are probably more capable than they come across in the show.

 

[Weststander]

It's primarily an entertainment show, not a successor to The Money Programme. We love it, tons of laugh throughout last night's episode.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

It's primarily an entertainment show, not a successor to The Money Programme. We love it, tons of laugh throughout last night's episode.

Agreed, we view it as entertainment / comedy, seeing people so full of themselves demonstrating a real lack of common sense let alone business acumen.

Since the change of formula from 'job' to 'business partner', I think it has attracted a different bunch of wannabe TV stars. From what we see, if they took their pitch to Dragons Den rather than The Apprentice, most of them would get kicked out without investment.

 

[kevo]

Agreed, we view it as entertainment / comedy, seeing people so full of themselves demonstrating a real lack of common sense let alone business acumen.

Since the change of formula from 'job' to 'business partner', I think it has attracted a different bunch of wannabe TV stars. From what we see, if they took their pitch to Dragons Den rather than The Apprentice, most of them would get kicked out without investment.

It's quite interesting that it follows on from Dragons' Den in the schedule. Hadn't seen DD for ages and most of them last night seemed decent ideas - EXCEPT that bloke with the ridiculous £3.5 'rowing bike'. What was that about?!

 

[rippleman]

It's quite interesting that it follows on from Dragons' Den in the schedule. Hadn't seen DD for ages and most of them last night seemed decent ideas - EXCEPT that bloke with the ridiculous £3.5 'rowing bike'. What was that about?!

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[Easy 10]

I have to say that for a marketing task, that team that didn't even have their shitty product featuring in their (truly pitiful) TV ad was just about the most BONE HEADED thing I have ever seen on that show. Ever. What a catastrophic bunch of absolute SPANNERS. The entire team should have been sacked on the spot, and the series cut by a few episodes. Nobody deserved to survive such epic ineptitude on a towering scale like that.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I have to say that for a marketing task, that team that didn't even have their shitty product featuring in their (truly pitiful) TV ad was just about the most BONE HEADED thing I have ever seen on that show. Ever. What a catastrophic bunch of absolute SPANNERS. The entire team should have been sacked on the spot, and the series cut by a few episodes. Nobody deserved to survive such epic ineptitude on a towering scale like that.

But that huge mistake was not in any way the fault of the group who made the advert. They were completely screwed by it immediately before starting filming.

 

[Easy 10]

But that huge mistake was not in any way the fault of the group who made the advert. They were completely screwed by it immediately before starting filming.

A complete lack of communication between the groups. Nobody took ownership. They were ALL culpable.

I wouldn't trust any one of them to boil an egg.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

A complete lack of communication between the groups. Nobody took ownership. They were ALL culpable.

I wouldn't trust any one of them to boil an egg.

Far be it from me to stick up for any of the dinlows - but in this instance you are blaming people for something that is deliberatly set up to make problems inevitable. On every task something like this happens because the two sub-teams are clearly not permitted to communicate sufficiently during the day.

 

[Easy 10]

Far be it from me to stick up for any of the dinlows - but in this instance you are blaming people for something that is deliberatly set up to make problems inevitable. On every task something like this happens because the two sub-teams are clearly not permitted to communicate sufficiently during the day.

Well the other team really wasn't much better, but they did at least get their product on the screen, so they didn't seem to have the same issue.

And the programme always seems to be falling over itself to show the teams and sub-teams using the latest hi-tech phone product, holding it up to their faces (never the ear) to find out whats going on. So as contrived as the show undoubtedly is, I can't see it being a rule that they're not allowed to communicate between themselves.

Personally I'm more persuaded that it was more likely a case of highly enriched weapons-grade BUFFOONERY that saw such a cataclysmic bollock-up of the task than anything the producers engineered.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Mia is the only one of them that isn't f***ing awful, she will definitely win. What a bunch of twats.

 

[Weststander]

The icing on the cake would’ve been the vacuum sucking in Liam’s tie.

 

[LamieRobertson]

It's quite interesting that it follows on from Dragons' Den in the schedule. Hadn't seen DD for ages and most of them last night seemed decent ideas - EXCEPT that bloke with the ridiculous £3.5 'rowing bike'. What was that about?!

A rowing bike at a guess