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Old 25-11-2016, 19:01
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Dillon as a "knight in shining armour"

£60 a head apparently https://www.warwick-castle.com/event...ding-days.aspx
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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Old 26-11-2016, 15:33
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Dillon as a "knight in shining armour"

£60 a head apparently https://www.warwick-castle.com/event...ding-days.aspx
£60 a head? Blow me down! Sugar's missing a trick here - you can go and look at all the amazing tropical fish for free at my local garden centre. Seriously you could spend hours in there (if the wonders of nature are of interest to you). Still, I suppose they need to be seen to be doing something for these 'greatest up and coming entrepreneurs the country has to offer' lol

I'd ask them to just give me £30 and send me to the pub! Much cheaper than that AND transport to Warwick...
Quite!

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.
You're sort of (almost) half right imo. Nothing to do with cutbacks - they could fund much better treats just by cutting back on some of the ridiculous expenses some of their presenters (even minor ones that the 'man on the street' probably hasn't even seen, let alone heard of) are allowed - even a day or two of a slightly less luxurious breakfast over the course of a year, for example, for many (most?) of them could double the price of these 'treats'.

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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Old 01-12-2016, 22:19
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Anyone know where they went tonight for the treat?
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Old 01-12-2016, 22:47
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Anyone know where they went tonight for the treat?
No idea but it looked great
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Old 02-12-2016, 02:33
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Anyone know where they went tonight for the treat?
Chambers of Flavour, as per Lord Sugar.
http://www.chambersofflavour.co.uk/
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Old 02-12-2016, 09:20
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The treat last night looked like a weird experience you might be having during a nightmare.
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Old 02-12-2016, 11:03
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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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Old 03-12-2016, 13:35
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The treat last night looked like a weird experience you might be having during a nightmare.
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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Old 03-12-2016, 19:01
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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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Old 04-12-2016, 13:57
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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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Old 05-12-2016, 09:34
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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.
It was filmed months ago though and I can't see much of an association.
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Old 05-12-2016, 10:30
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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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Old 05-12-2016, 16:18
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apparently £50 each (if you can get tickets)
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Old 05-12-2016, 22:18
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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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Old 05-12-2016, 22:27
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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)
But when they survived that it got much better
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Old 05-12-2016, 23:55
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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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Old 07-12-2016, 02:02
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The fake plane looked shit but who doesn't like ball pools?
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:05
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But when they survived that it got much better
Indeed - they've just been sent to Monaco, business class, for a mini-break in a luxury hotel....
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:07
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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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Old 07-12-2016, 16:12
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the losers get better treats, a nice cup of tea in a cafe
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Old 07-12-2016, 18:10
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the losers get better treats, a nice cup of tea in a cafe
And a bunch of sour grapes.
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Old 07-12-2016, 22:49
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The "treats" are actually laughable. I'd rather see an advantage or immunity given instead.
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Old 07-12-2016, 22:59
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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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Old 08-12-2016, 05:01
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The "treats" are actually laughable. I'd rather see an advantage or immunity given instead.
The treats must stay because they are part of the format licensed from the American producers (as is the way Lord Sugar points and says, "you're fired" -- apparently Sugar had wanted to change it to the more British, "you're sacked," but was not allowed to).

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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