Life is like a box of chocolates for The Apprentice

Oh, is that it?
It is all done and dusted on The Apprentice for another year.
Sir Alan has got his new £100,000-a-year dynamo and we can all sleep a little easier in our beds.
But where were the fireworks? What happened to the entertainment?
I found last night’s finale a bit like the whole series – underwhelming.
The big [...]

Fright night on The Apprentice

Every series we go through the same torture on The Apprentice.
We have to endure weeks of mind-numbing idiocy from the wannabes and then in the final two weeks we finally get something close to reality.
The interview week is arguably the best of the series. Although still an artificial scenario, at least we start to see [...]

Britain has got a talent…

Further confirmation – if any were needed – has come in the last week or so about our ability to ignore the important issue and focus on the meaningless.
In one breath we are told the public is getting bored with the on-going revelations about how our MPs have been joyously playing the expenses game in [...]

Shop soiled on The Apprentice

We enjoyed the return of one of Sir Alan’s favourite tasks on The Apprentice last night.
He got the two teams of remaining wannabes to choose products and try and sell them on a TV shopping channel.
Watching him give a running commentary as the teams attempted to flog a suitably bizarre collection of goods, I can [...]

No room for cry babies on The Apprentice

It is enough to make you bawl like a baby.
The Apprentice is hurtling towards yet another finale and this year’s weekly theme looks like being: the less crap team will win.
So does that translate to a conclusion that the less crap candidate will eventually land the £100,000-a-year top prize working for Sir Alan?
If these people do [...]

Cock fighting on The Apprentice

It was Alpha Male night on The Apprentice.
The show’s two prize cocks squared up to each other as project managers on last night’s task, the aim of which was to get the best possible price for a motley collection of goods.
Philip and Ben went toe to toe, no quarter given or asked, in a brutal contest [...]

Causing a stink on The Apprentice

In week two of this series of The Apprentice blabbermouth waste of space James McQuillan revealed – a little too gleefully if you ask me – that he had done a nervous little wee in his pants when sitting in the boardroom facing the chop.
Now in week four and he’s been responsible for doing a big smell as well.
Can this man not [...]

A taste of The Apprentice

Let me get one thing clear.
The Apprentice is a business-orientated reality TV programme.
So why is it transforming into the lamest type of comedy sketch show with each passing week?
Everyone seems to resemble the sort of grotesque, OTT stereotype that infests sketch shows, from the very top all the way down. Sir Alan is dangerously close [...]

Switched off

The nominations for the National Television Awards have been announced and confirm how out of touch I am in terms of my own viewing pleasure.
David Tennant and Catherine Tate are competing for the outstanding drama award for their roles as the Doctor and his sidekick Donna in the last series of Dr Who.
I find this [...]

Petitions, children in need, going nuclear and the Funky Chicken

A frustrating week for many reasons and a busy day to end it, so here’s a quick round-up:
I’ve signed a couple of petitions this week, they’re poles apart in many respects but both are issues that I’m personally interested in.
The first was prompted by my post earlier this week about how my career-carer juggling act [...]