The Apprentice

[viques]

Saw an advert for the new series, and thought how natural Karen looks wielding a chain saw! Sounds as thought they have managed to line up the usual gang of super egos armed with sharp suits with a quirky accessory to show they ain't corporate babe innit.

viques have you been on iplayer and watched the short with them all on!

Ohh I'm really looking forward to this. Love to see them all think how amazing and important they are and watch them suffer in the projects! Hoping there is another Elizabeth amongst them! Off to find the iPlayer clip!

Haven't seen it Kate, but will track it down and give them the steely glare I learned from Margaret .

Placemarking. Love Apprentice.

All those buzzwords they use is nerve-grinding, but it's nice to see it knocked out of them.

Looking forward to this thread kicking off and discussing.

Last year's series was excellent and so funny after some not-so-good years. Loved Elizabeth, Sarjan and his camera angles, the Norman village and the "diabolical" mood board! Alan S. had some good one-liners too! Hoping for some good stuff this time!

Sorry, should have been "Sajan".

Anyone watching?

I was in the loo....did they kill an octupus?

Total shambles as usual.

*octopus

I'm so embarrassed for most of them as usual. The backstabbing has begun!

The honey!

I'd be so mortified.

Different first task to normal but otherwise its always largely predictable isnt it. Men's team won, not because they're particularly capable but because the women were too busy shouting and bitching to organise and get on with it. One of the men's team made a sexist comment about how the women would be fussing over their looks or something. Only thing missing was one of the women suggesting/trying to flirt as a strategy for a better price. Yet I'll still be watching all the way through

They’re all frightful aren’t they? I love it 😁

Oh it was all such a mess! Hilarious and embarrassing at the same time. The octopus......hee hee. That guy getting a half cent or equivalent off the two bottles of wine!

No Elizabeth this year I'm afraid, she was great in the last series, my fav.

They are all idiots. So no change there. As pointed out above it was the usual carry on. Plus the men’s team having an over the top impression of their ability. They will be convinced they won the task on merit, rather than by being marginally less crap than the women. (AND Saralan having pointed this fact out,)

Right now my favourite is the man who said “in fairness I don’t think it’s an actual octopus” (paraphrased) and stunned everyone into silence (and ignored him anyway).

I too will watch it all. There’s not many of us!

I don’t think they’re idiots. I think they’re set up by producers. It’s so tiresome for Sugar and his cronies to try to find something negative to comment on. Karen drives my DH crazy as she just says the opposite of whatever they did as her critique. It would have been refreshing to allow them to actually shine and for Sugar to say something positive. I mean Mr Bsn Acumen, the idea they’re all rubbish until weeks later under your sage 2 second guidance when they suddenly might be potential partners isn’t even plausible.

But then again, I thought it was some sort of a celebrity Love Island edition when I turned it on last night. We were counting who didn’t have duck lip fillers on one hand from the women’s team. The men were non descript except Bun boy.

I tried to watch it last night but gave up after 5 minutes. They really need new challenge ideas as the format is very tired now, what modern day business person wouldn't just use Google? I get why they aren't allowed to but it makes very little sense.

It was hilarious.

I can't believe it was so hard to get nine items from a shopping list.

The PM for the women was thrown under the bus and the woman that threw her under it was manipulative.

“I don’t think they’re idiots. I think they’re set up by producers.”

Well ok they aren’t idiots, they just supply an awful lot of material to make them look like idiots.

The honey

Have discovered why there's so few of us on this thread!!! There's another one:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/3383900-The-Apprentice-week-one-hopefully-Karren-gets-loose-with-that-chainsaw-and-puts-us-all-out-of-our-misery

Oh that makes sense!

Looks like we should join that party.