I went off The Apprentice when I realised how the winner is probably picked.
Lord Sugar - who can recognise a money making opportunity from a thousand paces - looks at the business ideas before any tasks are done.
It seems to me he chooses the winner, or at least identifies the two or three best ideas, at that point, so he then knows who to manoeuvre into the final.
This became apparent to me in the case of an absolute non-candidate who won a few years ago.
Lo and behold, his business idea was a new design of nail file which Sugar turned into a successful product.