The Apprentice 2022

Looking forward to it myself even though it has gone a bit stale over the last few series. Not like theres much on in January either so will be watching

I think it was originally on in winter season and was changed to summer season at some point.

Haven't watched it for a good few seasons now, might do this year. The last winner I recall was, oh what was his name, oh yeah, Ricky.

Great show, every season always throws up one or two over zealous, super confident ediots.

Who's the new sidekick?

Never remember it being on in January before.

Very surprised Akeem wasn't fired, that logo was absolutely terrible but hilarious to be fair!

Really looking forward to next week now.

The Logo from the boys team was like something a 6 year old would come up with.

Was wondering was the ship actually sailing at all when they were on it - didn't think so as the outside shots were all ariel views and you couldn't see the contestants.

Really couldn't believe that he didn't fire Harry, normally with those type of contestants he'd say that they have to be PM the following week etc. Must be keeping Akshe in it for entertainment value

He did seem to be a pain throughout, constantly highlighting how bad it was after the fact and then making grand statements in the board room of the others' overall suitability to win the whole thing which came off as far too arrogant.

Likely would have been fine had he shut up a bit.

Agreed that the logo designer should have gone on merit

I always think the trick is to keep your head down in the first 3 or so episodes, someone always makes a fool of themselves and going early is a lottery. Anyone who has seen it and puts their hand up for PM in the first episode is a mug. A couple of the lads seemed like they might be competent enough, didn’t get names but the stocky black lad and the tall white lad.

Irish lad kept his head down apart from the presentation. I remember him playing pro rugby.

I know that. What I meant was that after it had been decided and designed, he kept going on about how bad it was after the fact. Like when they called the other sub-team, he jumped in to warn how bad it was before they saw it and later on said to the sub-team that it was nothing to do with him.

I missed this last night, is it repeated during the week before next weeks programme?

Loving it so far & so good to have it back.

There are a few big personalities in this year, Aaron Willis, Francesca and Kathryn in particular. I see trouble between Francesca and Kathryn. Seemed to be a bit of tension between them in the task.

I never understand why anyone puts their head above the parapets in the first episode.

I think it can be tough to avoid sometimes, and Siucre will be on to you.

"Exclamation Mark, this was a digital marketing task and you run your own digital marketing company, why didn't you step up?".

And at the bit where the teams select the leader (which we only see a fraction of) I'm sure there's plenty of "this seems to be in your area, I'd say you'd be great at it. And we'd 100% have your back".

Oh I totally agree that if it's your field, you're between a rock and a hard place on being the PM but it's the non-PMs who should really keep their heads down until episode 3. Nobody wins it in the first week and the reality is that there are too many there to stand out.

Salmocab is spot on that it's an unmeasured self beliefnand arrogance that these people must have to agitate in week one, which in fairness you could see when he was fired, saying in the cab that he'll be in the Fortune 500 in no time.

Great to have it back, never fails to put a smile on my face. The unbelievable overconfidence/naivety of most of the contestants never seems to change from one series to the next. I could understand why Harry went, if he had of kept his mouth shut he would still be there. You could see Lord Sugar getting more and more frustrated with him every time he started speaking. All things being equal Akeem should have gone. I reckon the nutty professor with the yellow jumper won't last too long but in fairness there looked like plenty of candidates who will do well to survive the first few weeks. What happened Claude?

Was the Irish lad trying to do Conor McGregor look?

Who knows what’s cool these days?

I could certainly not be definitive in answering that.

I still don’t know what they meant by it.

The closest accepted meaning is bourgeoisie, which is pretty much the exact opposite of what they were trying to convey.

It looks like they've created their own meaning now.

http://bouji.urbanup.com/6068800

I lost interest in The Apprentice a few years ago. But I started back with it last week - think we need something amusing in January with their overconfidence, bless them.

It always seems like such a car crash though - I get that it's entertainment but I'd love to have an episode where you go wow they did a really good job there.

10 minutes in and I’m calling this for the girls again.

The ‘I’d have done it differently’ and ‘I said I didn’t like it from the start’ brigade is very evident this season