Mastermind

The World At War

Old episodes of Steptoe and Son, Are You Being Served, Rising Damp, The Prisoner, Randall and Hopkirk, The Professionals.

Sky News

Rogue Traders

Most documentaries.

Coronation Street

Dickenson's Real Deal

Antiques Roadshow...

*Loads of stuff. But not The Apprentice.

Out of that lot I only watch the world at war

I find most of the stuff on that list boring beyond belief, particually Antiques Roadshow and Dickinson's real deal.. but I don't start a thread on it in their forums. (Possibly because they aren't popular to have one ) ...

A bunch of clones I wouldn't let manage a School tuck shop.

Bring Lucinda Ledgerwood back, at least she had a pretty smile, this years bunch seem as useful as a chocolate tea pot

...and this from somebody who enjoys Big Brother (if his posts in the Big Brother Forum are to be believed).

The apprentice gives people with over inflated egos the opportunity to appear on the show and say things like "I'm the best salesperson in Europe" and then fail at simple tasks, it also gives people who say "it's about making money, making money, making money" the opportunity to show the Great British public that they can't sell to save their life. This year we've got candidates saying that they think business or making money is better than sex. How can you not want to see that person fail fantastically? Sir Alan is also very entertaining, last year he said this about Clair who was one of the candidates "Clair will get her 500 rounds of Bull*hit, stick it in an AK47 and deafen us all" If falling over laughing at that remark is wrong, i don't want to be right. As many people have also said it gets very bitch in the show and more than half of them make fools of themselves while trying their best to manipulate their way out of stupidity.

I don't mean to be rude or judge people on the basis of appearance but this year's candidates are UGLY I mean, I’m no Brad Pitt lookalike but come on, those people fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

I have to agree. They all claim to be experts of some sort or other but cannot even really manage a simple task.

The cleaning ideas they come up with were far from inventive but pretty basic ideas a two year old cold come up with.

The whole program like so many of them are is pretty much fake.

Dunno, Mona is pretty drop dead georgeous and the red haired girl shows promise.

Calling a show 'trash' on the forum that's dedicated to it is like waving a red flag to a bull. Someone wants to start something.

Although I do sometimes wonder why I spend my spare time watching a programme about work.

Especially after only seeing the first episode. Give it another chance, OP!

You're right you know as this series has been very bad so far. Last year was brilliant and funny, with a load of characters you could get your teeth into, but with this series there aren't any characters at all, and I'm wondering why I got up out of bed to watch the food Task, as it was dismal in the extreme.

So, your two episodes into your first series. What do you think of it?

Firstly 2 episodes is nowhere near enough to get in to it, characters don't start developing till four or five weeks in. We only get little glimpses till episode 3.

You've missed out by not watching the first 3 and missing most of the last two. I sincerely recommend you watch tonight's episode on iplayer and try and follow it for a few weeks, I can guarantee that you won't feel the same by week 5 or 6.

Secondly, don't you mean you missed 3 series? Last year's was series 4, not 3.

The first episode this series wasn't great (too little task time, I had no idea who anyone was by the firing, I always know at least the firee by the end of even the first episode) but tonight's was a lot better, not brilliant but it's bubbling along nicely.

The togas (especially on maj) had me in stitches. And who's for an outsize basil leaf or a cut price tuna bruschetta?

I would be interested to see a programme where teams of intelligent business people compete on proper business challenges. Perhaps I could learn a couple of things and it would be interesting.

Participants would be intelligent achievers (not celeb wannabes), they don't get to live together and there is no actress secretary or 'firing' from a job that hasn't even been given.


Would never be shown in this country though. Only dumbed down stuff gets shown so we get 'Big Brother outside'

The only thing im really not enjoying is the Big brother factor the producers have made the foundation on.
We know from series 1 theres words conflicts etc but it seems the show is now based firmly on the personal conflicts when tbh I found the serious lack of common sense a lot more cringing than the bad words.
Im hoping its going to settle down a bit but some of those people are clearly only there to make trouble which is sad the show is strong enough without that.