Can I just ask people's opinions on something?... Why are there FIVE people at that stall?... Surely that's only one sub-team, and there should be four?

And also, in the second pic I posted, do you think the woman with the black hair standing in front of Nick is a candidate?

My guess is that the task is to sell a coffee or tea experience which includes selling the flowers or plant that it came from. The tweet that the guy shows of flowers looks like coffee plant. I'm not sure why people would buy it though; I'll see in 5 months if I was right.

That sounds a good guess actually! Still quite an odd task though

Another pic, but no candidates... They are at Princes Garden

http://instagram.com/p/nfanakCQgy/#

The Apprentice actually takes a lot less to film than I thought - Series 9 only took six weeks to film! I guess this is a product design task they are filming today...

Boy's team

https://twitter.com/Groundsman_Greg/...408128/photo/1

Well, they certainly look less glamorous and also a bit older then average.

Reminds me a bit of the first two series, where the women were a bit frumpy in general (yes, a bit sexist there ).

It is hard to tell from the photo's, but there don't seem to be many dominating personalities around (which was part of the problem last year, not counting the likes of Sophie, Jason and Jordan).

No picture, but they're definitely filming a task today, according to a tweet which said they were filming near the royal exchange.

Task 3 I presume.

More pics later I hope!

https://twitter.com/dtheophanides/st...641984/photo/1

One I missed on Friday...

The black one looks like Patrick Robinson!

I agree, but it is difficult to tell from the photos who are the dominating personalities!

Aaaah, I wonder if this will be a good series... I have a good feeling about it, ahving seen the candidates. My instinct tells me it'll be better than the last two.

I suppose it depends on your criteria as to what constitutes a 'good' series.

Another.

https://twitter.com/diasm/status/463...623041/photo/1

Looks like mixed teams for Task 3. They're selling something.

https://twitter.com/dantperry/status...185088/photo/1

One I missed from Task 1.

Not sure if the one in red is a candidate...

Meant pink!

Todays filming

@Taner_Akcesme The Apprentice filming outside my office pic.twitter.com/QshCHk5rMN

@alexabbas1 Just seen them filming the Apprentice in London lool!!!!! pic.twitter.com/scYOeOS1Ef

@alej469 Just saw the apprentice filming crew at St Pauls. Nick was there too. Guess there's a new series coming soon! pic.twitter.com/JO6bHtHPr4

More pics for today's filming
http://instagram.com/p/nqByrugcxa/
http://instagram.com/p/np1KyAGRK0/

More tweets from todays filming:

‏@d_ericsson Just passed the new series of The Apprentice being filmed at 1 New Change! Don't want to reveal spoilers but Nick did not look impressed...

@diasm New series of #theapprentice being filmed near work. looking at them for 2 minutes and you can tell they're clueless! http://pic.twitter.com/YLaHni5tiu

@awhood87 The Apprentice being filmed outside work. If anyone says they sold anything, they're lying. #thankyoufortheopportunity

@ses_smith Filmed buying scented candles on The Apprentice in Greenwich Market. Hope they got my good side.

@livvthediv The Apprentice are filming in Greenwich market, cute if they caught us walking through in our dance stuff looking gr8

@Rahala_ Saw the apprentice lot @ Greenwich today, wavy

https://twitter.com/alej469/status/4...599936/photo/1

Sarah Emma Smith ‏@ses_smith 2h
Filmed buying scented candles on The Apprentice in Greenwich Market. Hope they got my good side.

So, at least of the teams are selling scented candles.... Task perhaps? 'Design a range of scented candles...'
Or does that sound too boring?!

https://twitter.com/Rob179m/status/4...852800/photo/1

One candidate I haven't seen before...

I am now actually thinking that there could be 18 candidates... I shall explain:

On pics of the boys them from the first task, we see two subteams... One of four, one of five. Yes, there could have been changes in subteams along the course of the task, but none of the candidates on either of the subteams look like one person from the other photo...
Have a look at these two photos...
https://twitter.com/alexandronov/sta...875392/photo/1
https://twitter.com/Ben_Gorman/statu...541120/photo/1
(For clarity, the man in the cream suit in the first photo is a producer guy)

And then, onto the girls...
In this photo...
https://twitter.com/1tomedge/status/...545344/photo/1
...You can quite clearly see FIVE candidates... Why would they have five on one subteam...? Furthermore, I can easily identify four more possible female candidates...
https://twitter.com/Rob179m/status/4...852800/photo/1 (The mixed race one)
http://instagram.com/p/nqByrugcxa/# (Now in this one you have to look closely, but there is the black haired tall one wearing white-ish shoes, and then the blonde-ish one, who looks a bit like an older Lucy Beauvallet)
https://twitter.com/Rob179m/status/4...852800/photo/1 http://instagram.com/p/np1KyAGRK0/# (In these two photos, you can see a woman with black hair wearing black shoes and a red skirt. Now, some may say she is the same candidate as above, but surely a candidate wouldn't have time to change into a red skirt, and change footwear on the same day?)

Because of these points I've made, I am pretty sure we're getting EIGHTEEN CANDIDATES....

could be the smell what sells task (literally)

Good point The location does look like the kind of place they'd have a smell what sells task.

What are your opinions on my 18-candidate theory?

If there are 18 candidates, do you think there will be more episodes, or just more multiple firings to make up for it?

I think they'd have more multiple firings... I don't think they'd want to change the number of episodes they've had from the start which they know works so well!

They'd certainly need a bigger boardroom table though!

Do you think I have sufficient evidence to assume there will be 18? I want someone elses opinion on the this

i think the tall guy in the cream suit is one of the candidates and not the producer

if that's the case and the two subteams look distinct with no duplicates (haven't had time to really look ) then atm I'm inclined to think that there are 20 candidates

There must be more episodes then. There's no way that they could whittle down 20 candidates in 12 episodes.

more multiple firings incl firing an entire team/subteam for dramatic effect at the later stages?