Hi - my first post!
I heard that the pay is made up of prize money and salary and the reason loads of them leave is cos they will take a massive pay cut after the first year - like half.

Did anyone else wonder about the comment the guy from Yahoo made at the end? He said something like, we were expecting a large amount of money to be raised for both charities, but as both failed to do this we are going to donate $100,000 to be split between the two charities.

I found it interesting that he said that *both* candidates hadn't raised the amount of money they were expecting them to. Why wasn't this mentioned by Trump, cos surely that means they both failed the task at hand?

No, Randall and his team raised more than $11,000. I think that is quite good.

Yahoo just had to appear in the final the way they did and donate a huge sum because they already had made an embarrasment of themselves urging Rebecca not to raise any money at the event.

Yeah, Irealise it was a partly save face exercise, but you would normally expect a "they both did well and we appreciate their efforts so much that we're going to add a further..." kind of speech (i.e. everything positive).

Instead he specifically said that neither of them raised as much as they expected them to. Which I can well believe because given the resources they had, $11,000 isn't that great of an amount.

there was a mystery too. There seems to have been a timelag so were we meant to believe that, having been told about the charity, precisely no one used the contribution pack they were given? You wouldn't assume people would be that forgetful or downright mean would you?

Yeah, that was weird too. Trump said he knew how much Rebecca had raised, but never said an amount.

The most sensible answer that Randall could have given was that if he was being asked as the winner of The Apprentice then the answer would be that no, she shouldn't be given the job because the point of the show is to find ONE apprentice. However, if he was being asked as an employee of Trump then the answer was yes, they should employ her because she would be an asset to the company.

Randall was VERY good and I always preferred him to Rebecca, but I honestly felt that moment showed his biggest error of judgement in the series.

He shouldn't have been put in that position at all though so big thumbs down to Trump.

Good news! season 5 of The Apprentice USA is on BBC1 Tuesday 5th January (2010) at 12.10am starting with a double bill.

great news

been doing a proper catch up on you tube of seasons 1-3 in recent days.

So what has happened to season 4?

we just had it on BBC1, lol.

Oh. I thought that was season 3.

So they are putting it on in the middle of the night? Hm...that's big of them, isn't it? Is there something they are afraid of? Such as...that people might actually get to see it.

Is it a celebrity version?

no, this is a normal version.

tbf who cares what time of night they put it on... sky + or V + are your friends

just be grateful they are actually putting it on full stop.

Thanks for the info.

Who cares - presumably the mass audience who would like to see a good programme at a reasonable viewing time of night.

"Friends" unknown to me, my friend!

Why should I be grateful: they have a contract, don't they? And who pays for the BBC? Grateful, my foot.

Are they deliberately and cynically burying it in the depths of night because it would take the shine off our homegrown variety, showing it up as inferior and something of a farce, as far as business goes?

If that's your theory, just wait until it's time for season 6 and they will definitely broadcast it prime time. In that season, the losing team had to live and sleep in TENTS outside, while the winning team could enjoy a luxurious villa.

Almost sounds as if it is mutating into Big Brother with its rich / poor divide.

The fourth season is the last good season, so I hope people enjoyed it.

I just saw the fifth on youtube, its very boring. And the sixth is even worse with the rich/poor thing.

I agree with you, but would like to add that season 7 (The first celebrity season) is great.

I never watched it. I tried to, but the episodes are far too long.

I guess you're talking about season 8 (celebrity 2). Season 7 had episodes of normal length, except for one episode.
Season 8 sucked anyway.

Season 8 was a let down after the surprisingly good season 7. However I would find it better if the celebrities were doing proper tasks without the reliance of personal contacts.

My view is that season 3 was the best season and contained the most entertaining of all the US apprentice episodes, "soap dopes:".