To many The Apprentice is looked upon purely as a form of entertainment for all us unwashed masses. In fact on the BBC Apprentice forums someone has (with a little tongue in cheek) suggested that The Apprentice is unfair and good bosses would train their apprentices before testing them in the way Sir Alan does. [...]

So now we’ve got the result we wanted from the Apprentice. A winner! Was it the one we wanted… And was the hiring fair? See what you think.

Unusually Sir Alan only fired one candidate after the interviews with his gang of 4 (augmented by Karen Brady). That leaves 4 Apprentice candidates to fight to the death in the final.

Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentices try to sell experiences in some of the world’s most coveted supercars. Do they succeed? And more to the point who went home after the task?

Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentices are let loose at the NEC Wedding Expo to sell wedding dresses. Someone got fired. Was the firing fair? It’s easy to decide with the benefit of hindsight – that doesn’t mean it’s less fun though!

Margaret and Nick gave the following card sales figures:   Renaissance Sales Alpha Sales Card Buyers     Tesco 6,000 1,500 Clinton’s 0 1,500 Celebrations 0 19,500 Obviously Renaissance, Kevin’s team, with the ridiculous Environmental Day lost. The more I see of Kevin the more I wonder how he expects to be the best businessman [...]

In my previous post on the Greeting Card task I described how Kevin (I Eat Italian I Do) Shaw and his team created the disaster that was the environmental warning card theme. Let’s move onto the slightly less silly card theme – Singledom, or Singles Day. Raef Wants To Celebrate Singledom Michael Sophocles had his [...]

The Apprentice became a Hollywood blockbuster last night as The Apprentices tried to outdo each other and sell vast quantities of ice cream to businesses in London. In my house we were on our seat edges as Alpha and Renaissance negotiated to sell ice cream by the same independent small cinema chain. The task? Simplicity [...]

Food and the Apprentice clowns (sorry candidates) should never be mixed. That is unless you want broad entertainment. And that’s what we got with tonight’s episode. First of all Ian Stringer was chosen by Sir Alan as lead entertainer for the boys and quickly chose his scapegoat (oh sorry, I meant head chef). The top [...]

Running an industrial laundry and pitching to clean clothes isn’t as straightfoward as team Alpha thinks…