The Apprentice 2025

[200Plus Club]

Strange episode last night with the guy walking. Obviously unfair to sack anyone else afterwards.
The promo videos as ever were both cringeworthy and childish but at least both teams managed to make an edible product.
One year the production team ought to allow constant communication between the sub teams (just once) to show an actual team leader running a task as they might in real life. Currently it's like Apprentice 1980 with no mobiles or faxes lol.

[Last Visit]

200Plus Club said:

One year the production team ought to allow constant communication between the sub teams (just once) to show an actual team leader running a task as they might in real life. Currently it's like Apprentice 1980 with no mobiles or faxes lol.

Whilst it's clearly designed to entertain I agree some normality to bring out actual business acumen would be refreshing. Such like you mention, speaking between PM and sub team or maybe having more than 20 minutes to design something so that it doesn't look rubbish.

[200Plus Club]

Absolutely, let them do an actual design and presentation as they would in the resl world and be judged fairly on it. Currently it's "I want a round egg in a blue box, see you tomorrow to talk about what went wrong "...

[hungry_hog]

200Plus Club said:

Strange episode last night with the guy walking. Obviously unfair to sack anyone else afterwards.
The promo videos as ever were both cringeworthy and childish but at least both teams managed to make an edible product.
One year the production team ought to allow constant communication between the sub teams (just once) to show an actual team leader running a task as they might in real life. Currently it's like Apprentice 1980 with no mobiles or faxes lol.

They could use one of those Amstrad email phones

Edited by hungry_hog on Friday 28th February 09:01

[Adam.]

blueg33 said:

Is the guy that quit the one that had to leave because of a bigoted comment? I’m sure I saw his pic related to that.

Yes but they are saying his resignation was unrelated, hmmm

[Pitre]

Adam. said:

blueg33 said:

Is the guy that quit the one that had to leave because of a bigoted comment? I’m sure I saw his pic related to that.

Yes but they are saying his resignation was unrelated, hmmm

Very tidy way of leaving. Me, cynical?

[LARK F1 GTR]

Adam. said:

blueg33 said:

Is the guy that quit the one that had to leave because of a bigoted comment? I’m sure I saw his pic related to that.

Yes but they are saying his resignation was unrelated, hmmm

In the newspaper this morning they said he left because of a comment by LS that he took offence to. LS is supposed to have said "you've been quiet"

The chap was useless anyway.

[LARK F1 GTR]

Last Visit said:

200Plus Club said:

One year the production team ought to allow constant communication between the sub teams (just once) to show an actual team leader running a task as they might in real life. Currently it's like Apprentice 1980 with no mobiles or faxes lol.

Whilst it's clearly designed to entertain I agree some normality to bring out actual business acumen would be refreshing. Such like you mention, speaking between PM and sub team or maybe having more than 20 minutes to design something so that it doesn't look rubbish.

Yeah that's getting boring now. They rarely like the efforts the design team come up with. No wonder, most of them are st!

[LARK F1 GTR]

So, they were flamed for not taking the exclusivity offer, but in one season a team were flamed for offering exclusivity.

The motivational speaker can't string a sentence together. Neither can the tall chap with the side parting. We was gunna, wot we did was

[matrignano]

LARK F1 GTR said:

So, they were flamed for not taking the exclusivity offer, but in one season a team were flamed for offering exclusivity.

The motivational speaker can't string a sentence together. Neither can the tall chap with the side parting. We was gunna, wot we did was

To be fair, the short wrinkly curly haired guy speaks the same way.

[Stealthracer]

I don't understand why they have to do so much cooking.

Surely in the real world you'd design the thing, specify what goes into it then hand it over to someone else to actually build it.

[JimmyConwayNW]

Really tired format, the prize money isn't enough, the whole show is just a joke and its not really attracting anyone thats doing that great.
Bump the prize up to a £1or2m give them a chance to succeed.

Sugar seems sharp and still on the ball and on the job for 77.

[Petrus1983]

JimmyConwayNW said:

Really tired format, the prize money isn't enough, the whole show is just a joke and its not really attracting anyone thats doing that great.
Bump the prize up to a £1or2m give them a chance to succeed.

Sugar seems sharp and still on the ball and on the job for 77.

Couldn't agree more.

It's now just a bunch of people who want to be seen on TV than actually add anything to the business world.

[LARK F1 GTR]

matrignano said:

LARK F1 GTR said:

So, they were flamed for not taking the exclusivity offer, but in one season a team were flamed for offering exclusivity.

The motivational speaker can't string a sentence together. Neither can the tall chap with the side parting. We was gunna, wot we did was

To be fair, the short wrinkly curly haired guy speaks the same way.

Yep! (I'd forgotten about him!) I think he always sounds aggressive when he speaks.

[Countdown]

JimmyConwayNW said:

Really tired format, the prize money isn't enough, the whole show is just a joke and its not really attracting anyone thats doing that great.
Bump the prize up to a £1or2m give them a chance to succeed.

Sugar seems sharp and still on the ball and on the job for 77.

The thing is it's not prize money, it's an "equity investment" by LAS, so if you win you sell him half your company for £250k.

IMO it would be much much better if it WAS genuine prize money where the best candidate walks away with £250k regardless of how poor their business idea is

[thegreenhell]

Countdown said:

The thing is it's not prize money, it's an "equity investment" by LAS, so if you win you sell him half your company for £250k.

IMO it would be much much better if it WAS genuine prize money where the best candidate walks away with £250k regardless of how poor their business idea is

But where's the prize money coming from then? Sugar isn't paying it if he gets nothing in return, and the BBC isn't going to pay it out of their budget.

[Countdown]

thegreenhell said:

But where's the prize money coming from then? Sugar isn't paying it if he gets nothing in return, and the BBC isn't going to pay it out of their budget.

I don’t think it’s Shuggs paying it, I thought it was the production company?

[thegreenhell]

Countdown said:

I don’t think it’s Shuggs paying it, I thought it was the production company?

Shuggs is the one investing in the winner's business, not the production company. I'm sure it's been said before that he puts his own money in.

[Hilts]

I think Jana would have got chopped if he hadn't quit. I read they made him do some diversity training for saying 'coloured'. Not sure if this was why he really quit.

[Dbag101]

Hilts said:

I think Jana would have got chopped if he hadn't quit. I read they made him do some diversity training for saying 'coloured'. Not sure if this was why he really quit.

I believe it was the main reason he quit. He’s not doing too badly anyway.