This week we are at Tottenham Hotspur FC – biggest single shareholder (and former chairman) Sir Alan Sugar – and the teams have to sell subscriptions to a text messaging service (Spurs On).  Saira is in charge of First Forte, and Paul is the project leader for Impact. The two teams are brainstorming.  Paul thinks…

It’s week 8, and we see the teams saying nice things about Sir Alan.  Thanks, BBC producers.  This week’s task is to make some food to sell at a farmer’s market.  We see Raj frying an egg (for breakfast, one might assume), and then they get a phone call from Frances, telling them to be…

As usual we start with a recap of last week, followed by the return of the two who didn’t get fired.  Paul looks somewhat dazed, and is greeted warmly by Tim and James.  He is followed by Saira, who is embraced by Tim.  Saira gives everyone her account of what happened, whilst Paul stays quiet. …

Last week, Matthew was fired for being an ‘awkward character’ and Saira had a lucky escape and a big falling out with Paul.  The teams are picked up by a London bus with an advert for ‘The Apprentice’ on its side.  They get a phone call from Sugar, who wants the teams to prepare an…

I find myself drawn to the Celebrity Apprentice (TVB Pearl, Saturdays 8.30 pm) with a sense of grim foreboding.  How many ways can it go horribly wrong? Several, as it turns out. In week one, it was nothing more than a contest to see which “celebrity” could get their friends to pay the most for…

Just a brief summary of week 5, in which the teams had to choose an artist and then sell their work. I thought the wrong person got fired.  The two teams both chose the same artist, and so it was down to the artist to select which team to work with.  Saira and Raj had…

As usual, things pick up straight after last week’s boardroom survivors return “home”.  Tim would be surprised if Adele didn’t get fired.  Amazingly, he actually tells her this rather than being two-faced.  That’s not going to work, is it? The next morning they are summoned to the nearest corner shop.  Sir Alan tells the contestants…

It’s week 3 of The Apprentice on BBC Knowledge. Miriam and Adele return from the boardroom.  They embrace Rachel, who says “well done” and then grimaces.  Presumably because her friend got fired, whilst they survived.  Saira is talking sense, for once: “The dynamics of the group are four loud-mouthed girls.  We will be sitting in…

Sorry, I'm a bit late with this.  The first series of The Apprentice continues on BBC Knowledge on Monday nights, and this is week two. Usual introduction.  This time Sir Alan tell us that Nick and Margaret are going to stick to the teams like glue.  Hmmm, that could be tricky.  Anyway, the task is…

“As far as I am concerned, what I have in front of me here, are 14 of Britain’s best prospects.  Quite a few thousand people applied for this job.  A job with me” says Sir Alan.  Sebastian smiles ruefully, and wonders whether he (or any of them) really want to work for the man they…