The Apprentice

[Ian193]

[QUOTE 4541713, member: 45"]These were bone-conducting headphones, which fit in front of your ear leaving the ears free to hear everything around.[/QUOTE]

Oh right a guy from my work had watched it and mentioned it to me but he is very difficult to understand sometimes

 

[Dan Morinary]

Oh right a guy from my work had watched it and mentioned it to me but he is very difficult to understand sometimes

Should take your headphones off when he's talking!

 

[cosmicbike]

Stumbled across this version, which is probably more accurate..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...st-subtitles-series-12-5-cycling-crowdfunding

 

[ufkacbln]

Like many of the "original" ideas, it has become more about "entertainment" than the actual concept

This is no longer about finding that "ideal partner" but finding a series of characters that will increase the viewing figures and provide "content" that can be milked

.. and of course you can then go on to exploit even more with the programme that reviews the original programme, the programme that interviews the failed candidates, the programme that reviews the programme that reviewd the programme thatreviwwed the pprograme about th failed candidate etc....

"Strictly", "Big Brother" "Britain has go no Xfactor talent" "Great Britain can't bake celebrity edition" have all been degraded in this way

 

[ufkacbln]

My personal idea for improvement would be to stand on teh corner of a busy street and select the first six people at random, then put them up against the selected "Apprentice team"

I bet the random team would win!

 

[TrishE]

Just watched it the episode was cringeworthy but your fired that follows it on 2 was hilarious

 

[Brandane]

The Irish girl (Grainne) seems to be the best of a bad bunch. If that gobshite Car-Thick bloke doesn't get fired soon then I'll eat my bike helmet (it's a waste of space anyway). How could anyone possibly work with him? Loud, abrasive, egomaniac.

 

[r04DiE]

I've given it a few weeks for the personalities to emerge but there aren't any apart from the monobrow lad and he was cut off at the knees in week two and has toned it down to gluten free level.

This is just golden. It keeps making me laugh.

 

[ufkacbln]

The Irish girl (Grainne) seems to be the best of a bad bunch. If that gobshite Car-Thick bloke doesn't get fired soon then I'll eat my bike helmet (it's a waste of space anyway). How could anyone possibly work with him? Loud, abrasive, egomaniac.

.... but will he remain because for all these reasons .........he is "good entertainment"

 

[Brandane]

.... but will he remain because for all these reasons .........he is "good entertainment"

True; but good entertainment is subjective. I find him, and most of the others, annoying. For that reason, I now skim through it on i-player rather than watching the full episode.

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 4542236, member: 45"]It was never about finding the ideal partner. It was always about attracting viewers to a TV channel by making people watching interesting.[/QUOTE]

Exactly the point

 

[oldwheels]

But Globalti a lot of business is as you describe. A lot of useless loud mouthed nasties are to be found there. I have not seen the programme but my thankfully past experience of "business people " did not impress me. Since they were above me in the food chain I could not be too rude to then until I went self employed and got shot of them all. A lot of it sounds true to life.

 

[ufkacbln]

Allegedly there are a lot of complaints amongst the Twitterati that condemn the present series and suggest that the format has degenerated so far it should be axed

 

[Julia9054]

I started watching but had to switch off after the mime bit on the railway station made me want to poke my eyeballs out.
Can anyone tell me what was special about the headphones that makes them different from the models Aftershokz already have on the market?

 

[ufkacbln]

I started watching but had to switch off after the mime bit on the railway station made me want to poke my eyeballs out.
Can anyone tell me what was special about the headphones that makes them different from the models Aftershokz already have on the market?

According to some sources they were Afterskokz