I kinda preferred the junior apprentice to the normal version.

The thing that annoys me is that the candidates, usually a bunch of regional sales people/managers, are at an age that they should be getting along on their own as business people if they are the business behemoths we are encouraged to believe they are.

But the juniors have far more credibility as future business people who genuinely can learn from their experience.


Maybe its just me?

Compare the bottled water task to the breakfast cereal one in the grown up Apprentice. The Juniors were more creative, more polished and seemed a lot more savvy.

Junior Apprentice was a guilty pleasure perhaps helped by Sugar being less interested in delivering his pre-scripted put downs.

I really enjoyed it. As posted elsewhere, I thought the youngsters, especially the finalists, really were exceptional, and far more focussed on winning the tasks rather than running down others than on the man show. It was pleasant to see SirAlan being more supportive and nurturing than the posturing of the main show.

I still prefer the normal one, but I enjoyed the Junior version much more than I'd thought I would.

I prefer the normal one, simply because it runs for longer, and the contestants are generally much more immature, which makes for good tv.

I liked that there were fewer candidates. 10 rather than 16; it makes it easier to get to know them. I didn't like the short run that resulted.

What I didn't like is that it seemed hard to criticise them. Every mistake seems forgiveable because they were only 16 (or 17).

Still prefer the adult one if mainly for the longer run. I'm an addict The junior one was a LOT better than expected. Sugar wasn't posturing so much and was even likeable. It still avoided being patronising though. You also really got that the candidates were on a learning curve and it felt like they will benefit from greatly.

The candidates on the main TA used to be far more experienced and higher flying (and older) than recently. On S5 only Yasmina had started her own business, on S1 it's half of them. The average age has dropped from early 30's to 27. Years to accomplish more. With that comes more baggage and attitude too however i.e less willingless to learn. The program does still hype them to us though. It does so to set up the comedy.

I think it's hard to compare. Each individual series of The Apprentice is different. While this Junior Apprentice was excellent, another series might not be. They might not get a Zoe next time, and like her or hate her, it has to be acknowledged she was a big part of the success of this series.

How about a Junior versus Senior match up for something like Comic Relief? My money would be on the juniors to give the seniors a right good kicking!

Great idea. I prefer the Seniors. I think everyone treats the young people with more kid gloves and rightly so, but I prefer to see a show with the seniors with the gloves off

Normal for me as good as junior was i still prefer the adult version

On similar tasks the juniors have been much better in my opinion. Would any of the juniors come up with anything as crass as pantsman?

No. But on the other hand, Zoe, Hannah, Arjun, Kirsty and Emma should, if they are exam enabled, turn up on the adult show with first class or high 2.1 degrees and Tim and Jordan will have something too. Would his Lordship keep them in over Adams on the adult one? Would the producers let them in?

I enjoyed the Junior one, I thought they all did better than I expected. I also love the adult apprentice! No particular preference.

Yes, 'A bottle of water'

I was just looking at wikipedia to see how the juniors compared with the seniors from series three on the art task. The winning team of Emma, Zoe and Arjun knocked the spots off either adult team.

Normal, anyday.

Junior was really beginning to do my head in, it was so pathetic when Arjun was announced Junior Apprentice, he was just like 'Erm... Cool'.

There's no comparison. 'A bottle of water' was a fantastic idea - I'm in their target market and would definitely buy it. Their campaign was incredibly coherent, compared to the mess that was Pantsman.

I agree.

I'm no marketing guru and have never bought a bottle of water in my life but I think Tim's idea was a good one. However, my buttocks have only just unclinched themselves after seeing the pantsman ad!

We now know that the team had been running with a different idea, and were told to drop it at the last minute, and they had to revert to pantsman because it was the only other idea they had and no time to come up with new ones.

The cardboard camping cupboard was similar. When Emma suggested it they'd already used up most of the time available. It was any port in a storm. Both, for me, are examples of mistakes induced by the show's artificial time pressure.

They'd had two ideas - the camping cupboard and the board games. They could have gone with either one, but Adam made the decision to combine them. In fairness, either idea on its own would probably have done little better. No time pressure can really account for the decision to use cardboard; it would have been the work of two seconds to discard that and decide on plastic instead.

This certainly has to be the worst idea ever in the history of Apprentice. You can tell none of them had ever been to Glastonbury over a wet weekend. The size of it alone would prohibit anyone from trying to pack it into any bag.