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Dillon as a "knight in shining armour"
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Dillon as a "knight in shining armour"
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I'd ask them to just give me £30 and send me to the pub! Much cheaper than that AND transport to Warwick...
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The reason for the poor rewards is obvious - BBC cutbacks. If a winning team received an expensive day out, the anti-Beeb media would be onto it like a shot. Hugely popular BBC quiz shows give away traditional tiny prizes to the winners. Anyone want a Blankety Blank Chequebook and Pen? The Apprentice winner is going to receive a huge amount of money. A prize that makes the task winning rewards irrelevant, at least to the winner.
Much more to do with the BBC following the government's 'austerity' line like the compliant little puppydog it is, i.e. complete propaganda bullshit as per usual. You're right though, folk would be up in arms (quite rightly). A shame folk take what they see on screen as gospel and don't research into what the scam is behind the scenes. |
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Anyone know where they went tonight for the treat?
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Anyone know where they went tonight for the treat?
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Anyone know where they went tonight for the treat?
http://www.chambersofflavour.co.uk/ |
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The treat last night looked like a weird experience you might be having during a nightmare.
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They had the odd rubbish treat in the years before, but not consistently like it is now. My theory about why the teats suck is that in the early days, Apprentice UK was more a direct copy of Apprentice US where Trump was sending his contestants on seriously good and very expensive treats. Back then it would have been ridiculous for the UK version to send the winning team trampolining!
Also the quality of the treats seems to be deteriorating with the quality of the candidates and I don't see that as a coincidence. The producers know as well as we do that these TV wannabees are no way the same caliber as Tim Campbell, etc, so they don't mind treating them like children and taking the piss, basically!
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The treat last night looked like a weird experience you might be having during a nightmare.
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the best treat would be the USA apprentice treat. The winning project manager gets immunity the following week
One of the best USA episodes was when the Don fired a (great) guy who voluntarily surrendered his immunity. They could no doubt arrange free treats anyway. A day looking at West Ham's operation. A business master class with Branson. stuff like that. A day looking at marketing operations with some of the firms who take part in the series. |
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Refusing the treat would most likely result in a dismissal as they're supposed to reflect the corporate team bonding jaunts successful business teams 'enjoy'.
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I thought it was pretty creepy and rather bad timing considering some of the stuff connected to the #pizzagate scandal in the US.
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I've been watching the first series (never saw it at the time) and one of the "treats" was dinner with Sir Alan (as he was then)
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Chambers of Flavour, as per Lord Sugar.
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The treats are terrible this year.
So are the candidates - so why reward incompetence ? When they "won" it's only because the other team were marginally worse. |
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I've been watching the first series (never saw it at the time) and one of the "treats" was dinner with Sir Alan (as he was then)
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It must be linked with the BBC.
you can just Imagine the Daily Fail screaming blue murder about some OTT reward saying how Licence payers money is being used. Its actually bordering on Farce. As I said in the main thread what's next? 99p Mc Donald's? or a KFC 9.99 bucket. |
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The fake plane looked shit but who doesn't like ball pools?
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But when they survived that it got much better
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Only a couple of years ago they went to Rekjavik to a volcanic spa. The quality has fallen off fast.
Only the Parcour (sp?) treat looked good this year. |
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the losers get better treats, a nice cup of tea in a cafe
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the losers get better treats, a nice cup of tea in a cafe
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The "treats" are actually laughable. I'd rather see an advantage or immunity given instead.
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As well as firing someone, he could pick a star performer (not necessarily the winning project manager) and give them immunity the following week.
(Of course, you would then get The Curse of the Star Performer and they would most likely get fired the week after.) |
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The "treats" are actually laughable. I'd rather see an advantage or immunity given instead.
In the American version, it is true that winning project managers were given immunity but that was a late development after it became clear that regardless of what had happened on the task, Donald Trump invariably fired the losing project manager. The treats are probably as good as you can get with a budget of tuppence ha'penny. Some imagination has gone into choosing them, such as booking the celebrity Olympic gold canoeist so at least the winners come back with a story to tell down the pub, but fundamentally, better treats cost more money. And the BBC should put its hand in its pocket because as a viewer, I want to envy the winning team and not the ones enjoying a nice cup of tea in the losers' cafe. |
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