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Junior Apprentice
Anyone remember JA? I thought it was good fun.
It was nice to see kids using their brains in a money making way. Shame it was scrapped. |
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Funnily enough I am dealing with Apprentice withdrawal by watching the first series of Junior Apprentice. I do vaguely remember it at the time but I don't think I watched all of it.
Some of them are just as annoying as the adults but Alan's a bit nicer to them. |
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I just have memories of the show, but I think it was shown in summer months. Like to see its return.
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Does anyone remember the little Somalian Kanye wannabe who had a watch that was bigger than he was?
Junior Apprentice was comedy gold at times, and I wish they'd bring it back as well. |
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another vote here for its return I loved watching it through November and December, I wonder since they filmed JA in the summer holiday if they used to shoot both series back to back?
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Does anyone remember the little Somalian Kanye wannabe who had a watch that was bigger than he was?
The BBC, as part of its duty of care, should have insisted the producers give candidates proper advice and help with their appearance, even to the point of buying clothes and applying make-up. |
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Bad idea, correctly dropped immediately.
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One big problem was the prize was ostensibly to support the winners launching companies but in fact they all went off to university. Most of us in our 20s do not end up doing what we expected or hoped to do in our mid-teens.
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One big problem was the prize was ostensibly to support the winners launching companies but in fact they all went off to university. Most of us in our 20s do not end up doing what we expected or hoped to do in our mid-teens.
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One big problem was the prize was ostensibly to support the winners launching companies but in fact they all went off to university. Most of us in our 20s do not end up doing what we expected or hoped to do in our mid-teens.
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It was probably dropped because the media view prevailing nowadays seems to be that young people deserve what they get - "who do they think they are?" kind of attitude.
I work at a university and it's depressing to see that kind of attitude in the media to such talented folks, just because their generation might do things a little differently. |
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I've only seen the first series, but I was under the impression that the prize money was to support their future career in some way - nor necessarily to launch a business.
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I've only seen the first series, but I was under the impression that the prize money was to support their future career in some way - nor necessarily to launch a business.
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Lord Sugar's book, Unscripted: My Ten Years in Telly, devotes chapter 20 to the Young Apprentice and it looks like the BBC did not want to continue with it for a mixture of cost reasons and to avoid having The Apprentice on for most of the year.
Lord Sugar also talks about Ashleigh, who won the third series of YA, and who did not go to university. It looks like the main value of the prize is being able to phone Lord Sugar for advice, and he talked her out of what looked like a shady commission-only arrangement selling flats in Dubai. |
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One big problem was the prize was ostensibly to support the winners launching companies but in fact they all went off to university. Most of us in our 20s do not end up doing what we expected or hoped to do in our mid-teens.
If you recall that series's final James was arguing for the importance of education, and talking about his GCSE success, and going on to study economics. Zara demolished him by arguing that she at least was trying to move beyond the theoretical and setting up a business. . She didn't mention her GCSEs were better. In the future world , if Linked in is to be believed, James didn't continue to university , but moved into advertising with Saatchi and Saatchi .if I recall. Which, if you remember some of his sales tricks ...... https://twitter.com/JamesMc_Cullagh Zara is still doing her 4 year course at Oxford, and branching out into business activities in her spare time. https://thestorystudent.com/2016/07/29/the-real-fake/ https://twitter.com/thestorystudent?lang=en James isn't likely to be a future First minister of Northern Ireland either. Watch Maria Doran - now a business woman, law graduate, and past President of the Queens University Law Society , if she ever takes an interest in politics. |
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It was probably dropped because the media view prevailing nowadays seems to be that young people deserve what they get - "who do they think they are?" kind of attitude.
I work at a university and it's depressing to see that kind of attitude in the media to such talented folks, just because their generation might do things a little differently. Which may be partly why the Young Apprentices, often did so much better on tasks. |
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