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Young Apprentice Series 4?
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I was just wondering what people think of the chances of Young Apprentice being renewed for a fourth series? I know it hasn't been commissioned as of yet... The consensus seems to be that there won't, as some news articles have reported that - I think it's definitely on the BBC's agenda to cancel it, but I don't believe that they have actually made an official statement regarding that. Lord Sugar has also implied in his Twitter feeds that it might be cancelled, but has said that if the BBC do that he will be furious and is considering taking the show to another channel - which he apparently can do, as he is on a non-exclusive contract. I really hope Young Apprentice survives in some shape or form, I like it more than the adult show. The series was a bit weaker than the last two, but it was still enjoyable and you can't expect every series of a show that has run as long as The Apprentice to be amazing. I think it has every chance to pick up, and is a great opportunity for young people trying to do something with their lives. I found this article where Ashleigh, Lucy, Maria and Patrick defend the show from critics: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s108/...w-critics.html |
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The prize needs tweaking, or candidate selection does because currently they are not well-matched. For most bright young people, the school-leaving age has been raised to 21, so for many of the candidates, their immediate aim is to go to university rather than found or expand a business.
Now, you could recognise this and turn the prize into a sort of university sponsorship scheme with holidays spent working for Lord Sugar. Ironically, this would be very close to the spirit of the original prize for the adult series. Or you could acknowledge the problem and recruit youngsters who'd prefer to graft than study, although that might open the BBC to criticism from the education lobby. The adult series is more of a problem in this regard because when you see candidates pulling down upwards of £80,000 in office jobs declaring they'd really like to go it alone, it is hard not to yell at the screen: "well, why the flip don't you?" And the answer is that they really want to be television presenters. So I'd keep Young Apprentice and replace the adult version with Graduate Apprentice, restricted to 21-year-olds who have run businesses part-time while at university. |
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The prize needs tweaking, or candidate selection does because currently they are not well-matched. For most bright young people, the school-leaving age has been raised to 21, so for many of the candidates, their immediate aim is to go to university rather than found or expand a business.
Now, you could recognise this and turn the prize into a sort of university sponsorship scheme with holidays spent working for Lord Sugar. Ironically, this would be very close to the spirit of the original prize for the adult series. Or you could acknowledge the problem and recruit youngsters who'd prefer to graft than study, although that might open the BBC to criticism from the education lobby. The adult series is more of a problem in this regard because when you see candidates pulling down upwards of £80,000 in office jobs declaring they'd really like to go it alone, it is hard not to yell at the screen: "well, why the flip don't you?" And the answer is that they really want to be television presenters. So I'd keep Young Apprentice and replace the adult version with Graduate Apprentice, restricted to 21-year-olds who have run businesses part-time while at university. |
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So I'd keep Young Apprentice and replace the adult version with Graduate Apprentice, restricted to 21-year-olds who have run businesses part-time while at university.
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The prize needs tweaking, or candidate selection does because currently they are not well-matched. For most bright young people, the school-leaving age has been raised to 21, so for many of the candidates, their immediate aim is to go to university rather than found or expand a business.
Now, you could recognise this and turn the prize into a sort of university sponsorship scheme with holidays spent working for Lord Sugar. Ironically, this would be very close to the spirit of the original prize for the adult series. Or you could acknowledge the problem and recruit youngsters who'd prefer to graft than study, although that might open the BBC to criticism from the education lobby. The adult series is more of a problem in this regard because when you see candidates pulling down upwards of £80,000 in office jobs declaring they'd really like to go it alone, it is hard not to yell at the screen: "well, why the flip don't you?" And the answer is that they really want to be television presenters. So I'd keep Young Apprentice and replace the adult version with Graduate Apprentice, restricted to 21-year-olds who have run businesses part-time while at university. I don't think you can limit the adult one to graduates or people with a part-time business. You would miss the Sugar again as well as the Ruths , Michelle's and Rickys. You would also miss out on the people who do really well on the show because they are high flyers (Helen, Kate, Liz) and, at the other end of the spectrum, the hopeless, and the spivs, who provide the comedy. The show worked when he had a job to offer that was worthwhile getting . It might be better if he found some jobs somewhere else . The problem would be anyone else trusting him to make the choice. It can't work though with the proposal deciding who wins, or with only one safe sensible proposal on offer in the final and, seemingly, no way to find people with better ideas. |
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I really hope it does, I prefer it to the normal version nowadays. I think it's just because the format works a lot better for me and seems to make a lot more sense, I don't like the new format of the normal apprentice as I think the addition of the business plans make the rest of the process seem utterly pointless, and the way they do the final now is really anti climatic. Although I agree with you OP, that this series of YA was probably worse than the first two.
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Really enjoyed this series, but the final needs tweaking, even though the task was enjoyable. We should have seen the losing team have to battle it out, with one going through to the final decision.
Also, a sales task would have been more nail-biting than LS hearing some opinions, and then making his own decision. |
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