It’s fairly obvious that when they choose contestants for The Apprentice it’s more about casting than it is about picking the best candidates.  In the early weeks the "characters" provide some entertainment, cause trouble, and then get fired. Hence (as I mentioned before), this time around we had a fat bloke with glasses (Brent) and…

The Apprentice is back, and it’s as daft as ever.  We are told that one million people applied to be on the show, and they have selected only the best and brightest.  Well, you could have fooled me. This time the teams were created by the random device of Trump choosing two Project Managers and…

The fourth series of The Apprentice has been notable for the number of times that Donald Trump has broken the rules, so it was not really a surprise that he considered hiring two people. It had been obvious for a long time that he was going to choose Randal unless he did something really stupid,…

Week 11 of your 13-week job interview, and what is the point of Carolyn? The previous week she so unsettled Felisha (by telling she was rubbish) that it made her determined to be the PM whilst simultaneously destroying her self-confidence.  This made for entertaining viewing, starting from the initial discussion in which Felisha couldn’t even…

Some tasks on The Apprentice just scream out ‘product placement’.  It’s almost as if the producers are willing to organize any old task as long as it suits their sponsors. Hence we had the weirdest task so far – the teams were asked to select an unsigned singer, write a song with him and then…

Funniest moment(s) so far in series 4 of The Apprentice came after Trump had fired Markus.  It is traditional at this point to thank "Mr Trump" for the opportunity, or maybe to walk out looking shocked.  Instead, but true to form, Markus babbled incoherently and in the taxi on his way "home" he couldn’t put…

I think the word is hubris.  In week 2 of the latest Apprentice, the men’s team were delighted when they were told that the task was to develop an advertising campaign for Lamborghini.  What could possibly go wrong?  Chris works in advertising and the rest of the team are all, er, men. Throughout the task…

Well, season 3 of The Apprentice is coming to an end on Star World, with two women (Tana and Kendra) the last two left standing. I have to admit that around week 11, my shortlist would have included Tana (and Bren, Alex and Angie) but not Kendra.  Somehow she and Craig seemed to have coasted…

[I was quite sure I posted this on Monday, but it disappeared for some reason] The first series of the UK version of The Apprentice appears to have been highly successful, and here in Hong Kong we are already on to the third series of the Donald Trump original. In the first three weeks the…

I am trying to resist the temptation to write about ‘The Apprentice’, but I did enjoy this week’s episode so I’ll indulge myself.  This week Trump actually did something that appeared to be spontaneous and also made sense, which must be a first.  Many is the time when I’ve sat there thinking that he should…