The Apprentice UK 2023

I tend to dip in these days, I like the show but it’s fairly stale by now. I’d like there to be no firing in week one as it seems to nearly always be the fool who said they’d be the boss for that task. If there was no firing people would straight away put their hands up as an early chance to stand out.

There a fair amount of botox/fillers for the ladies - not a wrinkle in sight on some of their foreheads

It’s amazing how they manage to pick even more annoying and stupid people than the previous year. As usual they’re blaming each other for losing the task as soon as it starts. It’s ridiculous how much they’ve dumbed it down now.

Its a really minor investment though isn't it? £250K investment for a 50% stake. I'd have thought there'd be far easier ways to get it (venture capitalists, even a bank loan) if you had a decent business plan, rather than spending 5/6 weeks being part of a clown show. But even then it's fairly limited, it's literally just the sort of money to expand a pyjama business, plumbing suppliers or opening a new branch of your artisan bakery. You aren't going to be going on The Apprentice if you're close to discovering warp speed technology or looking to get into aircraft leasing.

Maybe it's time to up it to a £5M investment (hell, it's been at £250K for 12 years now) and get some serious candidates. Though they are probably happy with the comic contenders we have now for entertainment purposes.

It's the name of the production company that does the show.

If you stay with the credits to the end, it's says something like A Fremantle Naked production licensed by MGM to the BBC.

Emma would have been better off keeping her mouth shut and not gone overboard with the “i really think we’ve made a terrible decision here” stuff and starting the blame game as soon as the task as started. It was pretty sneaky how the two other hags ganged up on her at the same time. The whole thing is so bitchy now.

Wednesday Night/Thursday Morning at 00:40. Great it's back.

Is it next week they will spend about an hour deciding what name to call each team? I thought they did this on the first episode but maybe it's when the men/women are split.

Here we are again with the bewildering logic from last year returning when it comes to the reason to fire someone. Of all three in the boardroom, Emma was the least responsible for the failure.

She must have had a business plan he didn't like because the sub team leader who was only able to sell 12 of 16 tickets was clearly to blame and should have been dumped.

The other two were like snakes in the boardroom and knew if they ganged up, they'd save themselves.

My sky box recorded it! Must still be series linked some way.

Not seen the full episode yet but are the lads going to win for once. I would love to see them randomly pick one fella and one girl randomly and have them lead the opposite sex team on the first week.

Emma came across as a complete tool on the after show also. Way too over confident.

I agree with the comments of her being too mouthy and over-complaining but I wish Lord Sugar would be a bit more honest about the rationale for firing her.

Was she the biggest pain in the ass on that team? Maybe.

Was she responsible for them losing? Absolutely not.

Absolutely, he flips his standards depending on who he wants to fire. If Emma had kept her gob shut he'd have criticised her for hiding in the long grass.

She was so cocky when she said she thought both the others should have been finerd.

Thought the Cannon expert was good, also thought Simba was good. Nice to see the boys win Task 1 for a change.

Yeah that's true.

On an unrelated note, great to have Claude back.