Hi,

Apologies if this is not in the correct forum.

I'm just wondering the the US version of The Apprentice is broadcast on UK television and if so, what station?

I watched season 1 on YouTube recently, but ended up finding out who won the rest of the seasons, so I wouldn't mind keeping up with this week-by-week on TV to go along with the UK Apprentice.

Thanks.

Sometimes it's on BBC1 quite late at night.

Thanks.

Just had a quick look and it appears it's on at 00:50am on BBC One on Tuesday nights, but the last episode broadcast was season 10 (3 behind real time as it was broadcast first in 2010, but the last regular Apprentice season) finale in March.

It also reverted to a celebrity format ever since season 6 (with the exception of season 10).

Hopefully they'll go back to the normal style for season 14, although ratings were down to 4.7 million for the last regular Apprentice season they had (compared to 20.7 at its peak) so I doubt that will happen.

Trump's said he's never doing another civilian edition because the last one got such poor ratings. He didn't even bother to give the winner a pretend job like he did most of the others.

They show them on BBC but very late at the night and only one a year, which is very annoying. Earlier this year they showed the 3rd Celebrity edition and then the last normal edition that followed it, so I assume they'll show the 4th Celebrity series at the beginning of next year. I find it easier to just watch online, there's a youtube channel that has all of them

Maybe that had something to do with his constant changing and messing with the format. I'll concede I've never seen it, but the format for Series 6 sounded utterly ridiculous.

Are any more series of the Apprentice USA going to be shown on the BBC, the last one I think was the Bret Michaels series (Celebrity 3)

I'm not sure, but if you want my advice, just go on YouTube. All the American series are there. I've watched Series 1-4 plus 7 and I'm planning on watching the Martha Stewart Series soon. In fact I usually make a thread whilst the UK series is on every year asking for people's opinions on the US show, but I may watch MS first.

Is the USA edition any good, Jack? Would be interesting to hear your opinion on it. At one point I tried to get into it, but I didn't find it very enjoyable. When someone thought it would be a great idea to charge £1,000 for a glass of lemonade, I decided it wasn't for me. Also, from what I've heard, I don't think I'd respect Trump in the way I respect Lord Sugar.

I've found it hard to get into any of the international ones actually, the only one that has spoken to me was The Apprentice Australia with Mark Bouris, which I don't believe is currently available online.

Oh, you will not respect Trump the same way you respect Sugar, I guarantee it. His decisions are largely OK in Season 1, but he makes some utterly ridiculous ones in Seasons 2 and 3. He's nowhere as fair as Sugar; he isn't as smart and he feels the need to play himself up in every episode (There's a Trump business lesson in every episode which usually relates to the success or failure of the task, which is a deliberate attempt to make him seem all-knowing) and the self-promotion can grate a bit. There is tons of product placement as well. Whilst the UK version very rarely mentions company names, Trump will base entire tasks around companies (So you have to create a bottle for Pepsi or create an advertisement for Sony)
He randomly makes crazy decisions, like in one episode, he fires a candidate for winking at him, whilst in another, he fires another candidate for speaking at the wrong time. In the second episode of Season 2, he fires someone for reasons completely unrelated to the task; they just seem ridiculous.

In the later series, twists are introduced for no real reason (Immunity for the winning PM, teams split into College Grads vs High School Grads, Teams split by random selection at the start etc) and around Series 4, Trump starts making certain crazy decisions to (IMO) try and improve ratings (There are two double firings and a quadruple firing in Series 4, so if you didn't like them in this series, you won't like them in the US version!). There are 18 candidates in Series 2 onwards, so if you struggled with the 20 in this series, it'll be difficult for you in the US one, especially Season 3 which doesn't even start with gender teams.

The one thing I don't think you'll like is it's a lot more dramatic and grandstanding - there's a lot more flashy stuff (Just look at Trump Tower's extravagance compared to the simplistic boardroom in the UK version) The boardroom always has dramatic music playing during it, candidates will often be more loud and outspoken in general. Overall, the standard of candidates is better in the UK version, imo, BUT there are a few candidates in the US version that are utterly outstanding and could compete with the top UK candidates, but they are very few and far between. For example, in Season 1, the Top 5 were all fantastic, imo, but virtually all the rest felt like they were deadwood or there for ratings. My favourite ever candidate (From any version anywhere) is in Season 3 of the US version.

This all makes it sound like I think its rubbish. I don't think that; in fact Season 1 is very, very good (And I personally like Season 3), but I don't think that you'd be able to get through all of the seasons for example. It got very stale quite quickly.
If I were you, I'd give Season 1 a go, because it is a very good season of television and its the closest to the UK format (16 candidates, no stupid twists, two cut at interviews etc) Not only that, but the standard is very very high when it gets to the end and its fun seeing certain candidates succeed. What I would say is if you get through to about ep 6 and decide it isn't for you, then fair enough, but I would give it a go.

EDIT: One thing I forgot to say is that I LOVE his Nick & Margaret (Called George and Carolyn). Both are very likeable, very intelligent and astute and are quite fair on the candidates. I think one of the flaws in the later series is that he doesn't listen to them enough in comparison to earlier.

Funnily enough I've just started watching the US civillian seasons in order (I am currently up to ep 3) and I much prefer it to the UK one. I also like Trump alot more than I do Sugar.

You won't

As I say, he's pretty good in Season 1 (I showed S1 to my friend who said his respect for Trump rose after watching it) but he really gets worse in later seasons.

Plus the self-promotion isn't too annoying at first, but after watching five seasons about how right and amazing Trump is (Such as always having a great round of golf etc) it does start to grate.

I loved season 2 and 3 tbh

Kendra is my all time favourite <3

But I see what you mean, trump makes strange decisions and him saying how great he is does get tiring. Plus they tried to turn season 6 into a survivor spin off lol.

I might do that, but there is always fun in watching the show along with other people on here, and while the following isn't the same as UK Apprentice by a long way, it still is fun getting other people's reactions.

However if the next series doesn't start on BBC by February, as they normally start in January I think I will go on You Tube.

Maybe sometime I'll give Season 1 a try - not any time soon though, I'm too busy at the moment. I think you've hit the nail on the head when you point out the drama, because I don't really like overly dramatic television. I think if something is dramatic, it should be dramatic because of the people involved and what actually happens, not because someone is trying to make it dramatic with music and lighting etc. It's a big turn-off for me, and I think I was quite prejudiced against the US version right from the start.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever managed to get the better of Trump? What would happen if someone like Katie Hopkins or Luisa was on it?

One thing I noticed about the American edition is that if someone was singled out by the team, usually that led to them being kicked out even if they did nothing wrong, of course that could then be used as a tactic to remove potential threats.

Another issue with the celebrity seasons was that it was often about celebrity donations, one edition featured pop up restaurants for a day, and they were getting celebrity guests to pay thousands of a dollars for a burger, making a mockery of the task.

US Season 1 is quite good IMO. Like other people have said, it was before Trump became seriously unlikeable and starting making crazy decisions left and right.

The first season is also a bit more raw, like the UK version. Later on, they started having product placements and tasks related to marketing/creativity every single episode. Season 6 (The L.A. season) is mostly an unintentional comedy. One guy got fired on the spot solely because he referred to himself as "white trash" in a joking manner.

Celebrity Apprentice 1 (Season 7) is also great, although it's really a different show. Top entertainment with Gene Simmons, Piers Morgan etc.

If people have the chance, they should also check out the Australian version (the season with regular candidates). It's closer to the UK version than any other international version, and the boss (Mark Bouris) is very good.

Yeah, that was funny

Mind you, that person probably also got fired because they weren't that good.



That was a twist that I actually liked very much. It gave the series a very unique feel to it imho.



Think that the dramatic (boardroom) music actually suited that version, just like it would seem very odd if the UK version did that.




Wouldn't be one of the finalists, would it



Have personally only seen the first 3 seasons (and the first few episodes of season 4, late at night) and I would largely agree with that. Both season 1 and season 3 have some real characters (Heidi, Tammy, the Big O, Bren, Tana, Chris) , while season 2 reminds me very much of series 9 of the UK (the women in that season were nicknamed "the coven" on certain forums).




And they were later replaced with others (amongst the replacements were his children).


Anyway, here are the intro's for both season 1 and season 3 (see if you can spot the potential winners, george , think that the episodes themselves can also be found there somewhere:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9paNJJqMn3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZzoxFheKz0

Woops, I meant Season 3, not ep 3

I find it much better than the UK one and I prefer Trump over Sugar - Trump seems a lot nicer and less rude than Sugar. Tbh they feel like two different shows.

I agree about The Apprentice Australia - as I have said above, it's the only international version that I've been able to get into. I've watched the first one or two episodes of many, but besides that one I have always gone off it. Unfortunately there was only one civilian series, and then just celebrity editions after that. I'm not a big fan of celebrity editions of anything.

I've just seen that it has been re-uploaded on YouTube, so recommended to anyone who hasn't seen it. However, Episode 1 seems to be missing.

Well to lower the tone as usual, one thing that struck me about the US Apprentice episodes that I've seen is the fact that compared to most of the UK cast the lady candidates are smoking hot.

https://www.google.com/search?q=stef...2&ved=0CBwQsAQ

I remember Trump fired a candidate for referring to himself as "white trash" once.

And then was fired in the celebrity version because Trump found out that they'd received a DUI in the past, completely and utterly unrelared to their time on the show. If he's morally against having someone on the show who's received a DUI, perhaps he should do his research beforehand.

I am whizzing through these seasons! Almost finished with Season 3 now!

I can see what people are saying about Trump getting more cocky/arrogant as the seasons progress, but I still prefer him over Sugar at the moment.

All bow down to the bedazzler

Have you seen Episode 11 of Season 3? Hands down one of the worst firings of all time, IMO. The firing in Season 2, Episode 2 was utterly stupid as well. I certainly don't prefer him over Sugar. Trump clearly has his favouritewhilst Sugar is fair and judges things on a task basis when necessary and on an overall basis when required. Of course Sugar's made some shockers, as has Trump, but he's generally far more intelligent than Trump, who often ignores the task as (IMO) he isn't given enough information as Sugar is.

Doesn't the self-promotion grate on you? By Season 3, when trumpets start playing whenever he arrives, it really began to wind me up.

I'm actually whizzing through TA: Martha Stewart atm. I was halfway through Episode 7 before leaving for work earlier. Its fun, but one candidate dominates the airtime and has survived four boardroom (None of which he was the PM!) so far. The changes they make are just dumb though. Martha not actually saying You're Fired just makes the exits when they happen pretty boring, whilst she goes to great pains to prove she's nicer than Trump, which just makes her seem comparatively weak in many ways. She's messed with the boardroom format three times which has annoyed the hell out of me (It defeats the purpose of the regular format IMO) and it seems to be very female orientated (in the first three tasks, they had to write a children's story, set up a floristry business and bake a wedding cake) She seems to be deliberately favouring women at the start (10-6 split at the start and down to 7-3 now) and there's a lot of deadwood. The teams were divided by the candidates themselves at the start, but one team dominated the early tasks, meaning there are only 3 candidates left from one of the original teams, whilst there's 7 left from the other. I don't know why she changed so much of the show, it seems just to be done for her own effect.