The Apprentice - makes me cringe with embarrassment.

[Globalti]

Mrs Gti insists on watching it and analysing all the characters. She admitted last night that she had once had a look at the application form and discovered that you have to submit a photo, which we concluded was to ensure that none of the participants turns out to be an ugly, aggressive shaven-headed BMW-driving cock. Instead they seem to specialise in recruiting woolly-minded white, reasonably photogenic kids with very little real experience and an over-inflated sense of their own importance then setting them all up against each other in a way that guarantees egotistical conflict. Some of the scenes are so cringeworthy that I actually have to leave the room to make a cup of tea or go and fondle my bike.

I'd love to slip one of my Nigerian or Indian or Lebanese customers in amongst those muppets, they would leave the whole sorry crew floundering while they raced off and solved Lord Alan's little challenges, which are so trivial compared to what real business people face in the real world.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I couldn't have put it better. A true cringe-fest. I can longer watch a minute of it.

 

[Aperitif]

I couldn't have put it better. A true cringe-fest. I can NO longer watch a minute of it.

"You're fired!" (I have never seen it )

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I haven't seen it either, I realise the bloke's made a lot of money but he always associates himself with third-rate products such as Amstrad and Tottenham Hotspur.

 

[lukesdad]

I dunno could be fun running it on here

 

[alecstilleyedye]

well with big brother finished, what else is left for the wannabe celeb?

 

[potsy]

I am proud of the fact I have never watched it though I do admit to watching series1 or 2 of BB

 

[ASC1951]

I haven't seen it either, I realise the bloke's made a lot of money but he always associates himself with third-rate products such as Amstrad and Tottenham Hotspur.

That's unfair. I remember when the original Amstrad WP came out because I bought several for my office - built like little tanks, they were. The competition at the time was the IBM Electronic Typewriter, which could store a mighty three lines of text and cost four times as much. People might sniff at Alan Sugar's barrow boy manner, but just look at his contemporary Clive Sinclair to see what happens when you combine a head full of technowhizz with the commercial ability of a woodlouse.

You may have a point about Spurs.

 

[Arch]

It's one of the few shows I can't bear to leave on in the background if I'm online. Just a few words from any of them, and I have to turn over....

 

[ianrauk]

It was Amstrad that made VHS machines at an acceptable price to the masses. Oh yes, for those with Sky, didn't he manufacture the Sky Plus boxes?

 

[Globalti]

Any young viewer who has not worked and is thinking about a career in business would be discouraged by the programme; it fails completely to convey the pleasure of doing business with trusted customers and suppliers, the elegance of honest business where everybody benefits from the original producer right down to the final customer and the satisfaction of doing a good day's work and getting paid for it.

As Smeggers writes, the programme conveys a business environment from Sunshine Desserts in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

 

[ColinJ]

I feel the same way!

I have friends and family who insist on watching it if they are here when it is on. I leave them to it and go upstairs to spend a more constructive hour on my computer.

They insist that the programme is really funny, but I can't see what is so amusing about watching a bunch of selfish, egotistical f*ckwits trying to out-a*selick each other!

 

[asterix]

It is highly amusing and brilliantly edited to make viewers form whatever opinion of the candidates the editors want. The candidates are generally quite bright, successful people with thick skins and I don't have any qulams watching them make fools of themselves.

I'm rooting for Tom - time he stood up for his ideas!

 

[User482]

I'm told that it's about young people who have a burning ambition to be like Alan Sugar. If that's not a reason to despair, I don't know what is.

Mind you, he is a cyclist, so he can't be all bad.

 

[brockers]

Watched the first two series and found them quite entertaining from a novelty perspective. I still remember a few of the characters too. But I made my mind up not to watch any of the later series, after listening to the narcissistic twonks blowing their own trumpets in the TV trailers.

And what's with the Dara O'Briain post match analysis? Does every program have to be dissected after broadcast these days? I've a jolly good mind to write into the BBC's Points Of View, or the Daily Mail, I can tell you etc