Originally Posted by Denis_Allen:
“I used to be the first to champion "The Apprentice" but lately I have noticed to many apparently "entertainment friendly" scenes and firings. For instance how do the cameramen know which premises the team when out on street selling are going to enter, the camera seems always to be in position waiting and the proprietor or assistant appears to be expecting the contestants, this it is not spontaneous but prearranged.”
“I used to be the first to champion "The Apprentice" but lately I have noticed to many apparently "entertainment friendly" scenes and firings. For instance how do the cameramen know which premises the team when out on street selling are going to enter, the camera seems always to be in position waiting and the proprietor or assistant appears to be expecting the contestants, this it is not spontaneous but prearranged.”
That's just a necessity of creating a professional-looking show. If they just followed the contestants around with the cameras all the time and never bothered setting any shots up - not that the set-ups they use involve anything more than a cameraman running into the shop, plonking down a tripod and pressing record on the camera - you'd end up with something looking like The Blair Witch Project.
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“Regarding "You are fired" episode 3 series 10 is a classic example of production interference, the losing team lead by Roisin, yet it was her selling the items to a shop for £8.50 that caused the loss,for had she sold only 2 more to the hotel then her team would have won.And being team leader and making a mistake such as that would have been enough to have her fired in earlier shows.”
“Regarding "You are fired" episode 3 series 10 is a classic example of production interference, the losing team lead by Roisin, yet it was her selling the items to a shop for £8.50 that caused the loss,for had she sold only 2 more to the hotel then her team would have won.And being team leader and making a mistake such as that would have been enough to have her fired in earlier shows.”
By that same token, if Nurun had managed an average sale price of (I think) £1.75 or so higher than she did, the team would have won. This wasn't some utter catastrophe where Roisin had made such disastrous decisions that the team were dead and buried from the start; all three people in the final boardroom (plus the already-fired Lindsay) could have pushed the team to victory by making better decisions than they did, and it fell down to which of them that Sugar felt would have the least to offer going forwards.
