The Apprentice 2022

This must be one of the weakest line ups for the final ever on the Apprentice, none of them have much about them except waffle on regretting their mistakes

Same but if it was physically in front of us, we'd surely have spotted it. Even ignoring that, the label design on the jar was horrific

It seems a bit mad Aaron was fired due to his inability to make baby food. Having a team of just 3 and having one member spending all their time in the kitchen is nonsensical

Katherine has done **** all to get to the final. Can't see her making the final

I haven't been watching the show, but caught some of that last night - Harpreet is going to win it clearly. She's not exceptional, but compared to others, she's miles ahead.

Very poor group this year, nobody really standing out.

Just a heads up for anyone just watching on a Thursday, there's a "The Final Four" episode on BBC1 Tuesday night at 10:35.

I think it goes through their time on the show along with detailing what their business idea is.

He makes a profit on the show you can be sure.

I think Lord Sugar was over-simplifying how easy it should be to create the baby food recipe.

Also, while the ‘dies’ label was brutal, if the retailer really liked the taste profile of the baby food surely they would have placed an order on the basis that the labelling was changed.

none of the retailers asked about salt content, shelf life etc..

I have to remind myself that this is a tv show 😆

If these were the best plans left, how bad were the others ones!

I knew that once the protein filled vodka idea was gone that the dessert lady would be in the final. They'd never had gone for two clothes-based ideas even though they were very different.

Did none of them think of getting anyone with a business head, or a bank manager or an MBA to help with their business plan? Saw bit of Dragon's Den earlier, and this lot wouldn't even be let into the lift.

The business plans were incredibly poor, ideas poor. How could Kathryn not have registered the domain name for hers already? So much better candidates in every other season.

Gun to my head of the 2 left I'd go with Hartpreets as possibly able to get a brand up and running now with cheap commercial property to rent with the current downturn but with her sister a 50% owner it's a mess.

Stephanie's idea was vaguely innovative, if she could find a way to get the authentication done online. There was nothing unique or unusual about any of the other businesses.

It's a pity the full business plans of each of the other 8 are not available to view this see how suitable they were.

I doubt your’man wuda given away the web address for free to a fella, he only did it cos she is a very pretty young lady.

The name MyEverydayPyjamas and the fact that she hadn't claimed it was far less of a 'gotcha' than Mike Soutar seemed to think. It's not as if the name actually matters that much in the first place (OurEverydayPyjamas is far closer to her usp) but regardless there will still be multiple variations of it unclaimed. It's not as if any customers will be typing it in at the URL bar anyway - people use search engines so it's far more important to have SEO working regardless of the URL.

Dare I say I also think posters expect a bit too much from these business plans? If it was an already thriving and easily scale-able business, or a really clever innovative idea that looked likely to succeed, then it's unlikely that they would go on this programme. Dragons Den if you really wanted to go on TV, but more likely the venture capital route.

Anyone who goes on this programme is almost certainly going to be pitching a very small and struggling operation with existing flaws, or an idea that needs a huge amount of work.

Great episode but my word, what an uninspiring collection of business plans (some of which were even a stretch to call them that).

Harpreet had the only viable option but the ownership issue is enormous and something that would have had her fired years ago when there were stronger plans in running.

The fact that the final is no longer given the premium Sunday night airing says an awful lot about where the series is these days.