Young Apprentice - CANCELLED
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According to Kevin ’O Sullivan on The Wright Stuff this morning.
He hates it btw so maybe there’s some wishful thinking in there but he seemed 100% certain it’s done after this series.
He hates it btw so maybe there’s some wishful thinking in there but he seemed 100% certain it’s done after this series.
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<grr>Tom winning!</grr>
Not up to Sugar though is it? Ratings for TYA are not that special (down this week on last apparently) and for the same amount of effort they could have 2 series of TA every year instead and that rates better. They won’t do that obviously but I imagine that’s the sort of justification they’ll toss around internally for them being unable to continue with it.
Sullivan was emphatic and he’s certainly more in the loop than any of us.
Sugar has said he's thinking about taking it to another channel if the BBC pull the plug, so we might get some more series even if the BBC do stop it.
Some dodgy haircuts going on here, as i catch up on iPlayer
To be fair, I think they only went in that direction to avoid the annual embarrassment of the winner parting ways with whichever of Alan's "businesses" they were saddled with.
Still I think it has become boring because the vast majority of candidates have almost completely identical personalities. Full of self-importance and almost pathologically deluded about their own abilities and success.
It's good to have a few bull-****ters for the sake of TV but not almost every candidate which it seems to have been over the last few years.
That's a really good point, which I have to say had not occurred to me. I wonder why he says he can then? I'm sure Lord Sugar didn't get where he is by making empty threats, I would have thought if he threatens to do something, then he's surely done his homework to find out if he can do it.
Tim Campbell, the first Apprentice winner back in 2005, was in that category. He had no business experience behind him, he was just a normal, working-class guy who had worked for London Underground all his life. Then on The Apprentice, he did really well, went on to win the series, and since then has been one of the most successful winners since it started.
I think YA is as enjoyable as the main show btw.