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The Apprentice (2005)

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British version of the reality competitions series that sees young entrepreneurs compete in several business tasks, attempting to survive the weekly firings in order to become the business partner of one of the most successful businessmen.

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  • Lord Alan SugarLord Alan Sugarรับบท Self - The Boss
  • Mark HallileyMark Hallileyรับบท Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Karren BradyKarren Bradyรับบท Herself - Lord Sugar's Aide
  • Nick HewerNick Hewerรับบท Himself - Lord Sugar's Aide
  • Claude LittnerClaude Littnerรับบท Self - Lord Sugar's aide
  • Samantha Moonรับบท Frances
  • Tim CampbellTim Campbellรับบท Himself - Lord Sugar's Aide
  • Margaret Mountfordรับบท Herself - Lord Sugar's Aide
  • Thomas SkinnerThomas Skinnerรับบท Self - Candidate
  • Adenike Ogundoyinรับบท Self
  • Lindsay Bogaardรับบท Self
  • Miranda Roseรับบท Self

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The Apprentice is a British business-based reality television series created by Mark Burnett, distributed by Fremantle and broadcast by the BBC since 16 February 2005.

Devised after the success of the American original and part of the international franchise of the same name, the programme focusses on a group of businesspeople competing in a series of business-related challenges set by British business magnate Alan Sugar, with the aim of winning a business investment.

In order to observe candidates as they undertake these tasks, Sugar is aided by two close business associates who act as observers – these roles are currently performed by Karren Brady and Tim Campbell.

Originally aired on BBC Two, its first series generated favourable viewing figures that led to the creation of a companion discussion programme in 2007, The Apprentice: You're Fired!, with further increasing figures after the second series leading to the programme being aired on BBC One. The success of The Apprentice has led to it receiving its own merchandising, including a magazine and official books, along with one-off celebrity episodes for charity, and a spin-off, Young Apprentice, which ran between 2010 and 2012.

The programme is a staple of the BBC's television schedule, with the programme being the basis of several comedic parodies and imitations, as well as influencing the concepts of other British business-based programmes, such as Tycoon, and Beat the Boss.

History

In March 2004, following the success of the first season of NBC's The Apprentice, FremantleMedia announced its intentions to create a British version of the programme under the same name and format. The company released a request for tender, with the most significant bids coming from the BBC and Channel 4. Negotiations finished on 1 April, when the BBC was announced as the new home of the programme.

In search for a host, the BBC made offers to several businesspeople, including Philip Green, Felix Dennis and Michael O'Leary, but each declined when approached. On 19 May, Alan Sugar agreed to helm the twelve episodes of the programme that had been commissioned. After the success of the first series, Sugar signed on for subsequent series.

Candidate selection

The programme's initial stage, which is not filmed, comprises auditions and interviews held across the United Kingdom.

The second stage, usually held in London, comprises group activities designed to test potential candidates' business skills and team work. Following this, between 20 and 30 applicants are chosen and given a psychological assessment and asked to provide references, before the final line-up is selected from this cohort. The number of candidates who appear in a series has varied over the programme's history, though the general arrangement sees a balanced number of men and women.

Tasks

Once the candidates are selected, they are divided into two teams (typically men versus women for the first couple of episodes) and adopt a team name for the duration of the series. Each series focusses on ten team-oriented tasks, with the exception of the seventh and eighth series which featured eleven.

Each episode covers a single task, which is designed to test candidates on important business skills, such salesmanship, negotiation, requisitioning, strategy, leadership, teamwork and organisation. Before each task is given, the teams are briefed by Sugar over what kind of challenge they will be conducting, what rules they must adhere to during the timespan of the task, and the conditions for winning – examples include procuring items on a limited budget; food production and sales; inventing toys, gym equipment, or furniture; marketing and PR tasks; and tourism tasks. The winner of a task is generally decided by the amount of profit made.

Before a task begins, each team must assign a project manager (PM) to lead them, whose role involves role delegation, making key decisions and managing team members carefully in order to minimise or avoid potential friction and disruptions.

PM selection is usually the result of a team vote: individuals may nominate themselves to stand as PM for the task, or other team members may recommend who would be best placed to be PM for that task. In both instances, reasons are given as to why any individual(s) would be suitable for the role, such as a candidate's business background, expertise or interest in the subject matter, the nature of the task, prior success in previous tasks and the level of confidence the other team members have in them. The PM is then voted upon by the team by the team members.

However, at times, Sugar himself may appoint someone into the role, based upon criteria such as his opinion of their performance in the process, their background or, since the seventh series, their business plan. The pre-task briefing is often used to rearrange teams as candidates are whittled down in the process, and is mainly done to either balance out team numbers, ensure a fair distribution of skills for a specific task, or to give less vocal candidates a chance to demonstrate their abilities.

Each team is provided with two vehicles to use as transport during tasks and they often split into further sub-teams. In some tasks, the candidates are given additional items to use to assist them, such as a shop space or a workshop. Although the teams are expected to work together, the competitive nature of the show means that candidates often focus on their individual roles and needs rather than the greater good of the team. During the execution of their task, each team is followed by one of Sugar's aides, who notes down their opinions, observations and thoughts for later reference in the boardroom, mostly on any noteworthy matters, such as performance, mistakes, and issues, minor or serious; while it is rare for them to intervene, they may do so if an issue gets severe enough.

Boardroom

Once a task is finished, the candidates report back to Sugar in the "boardroom" – either following the task's completion, or on the following day – to hear about feedback on their performance and learn the results of their endeavours. During team-based tasks, the process is played out in three stages in the following order – Results, Task Review, and Final Boardroom. Each stage is conducted in a different fashion, but follows a general format:

Result – Sugar and his advisers conduct an initial discussion with teams about their performance, and review what they did on the task – in tasks where a product, video marketing promotion, or branding is created, such items are provided in the boardroom for examination. During this stage, team members are invited to share feedback on each other's performances, whether praise or criticism. After this initial review, the results of the task are revealed, after which the winning team advances to the next stage and, until the nineteenth series, receives a reward for their performance. After they leave, the losing team are dispatched to the "Losers' Cafe" to discuss the factors that contributed to their loss, before they must return to the boardroom for an in-depth review of their performance.

Task review – The losing team are subjected to an extensive review of their performance in the boardroom, including open criticism of performance and/or contribution on the task. Candidates are granted the freedom to argue their cases for their respective performance and contributions, voice opinions about other members, and counter criticism if they feel it to be unjustified. After a period of discussion with each member, the appointed PM must then select two members of the team to return with them for a final boardroom discussion; a choice is not required if the team has only three members left in it. The choice made by the PM can be influenced by several factors, including responsibility for the team's loss, inexcusable mistakes, lack of contribution, and clash of personalities. Those not picked are free to return to the candidates' accommodation (the "House"), while remaining members are sent outside to allow Sugar and his aides time to privately discuss their observations and doubts about the "bottom three".

Final boardroom – The "bottom three" face a final debrief with Sugar and his advisers that involves further in-depth analysis and criticism of their actions in a task, their performance throughout the process so far, their relationship with other candidates, and any criticism raised against them. The candidates argue their cases and also suggest who amongst them should be fired from the process. Sugar makes a final summary when he calls discussions to an end, relaying his personal thoughts on each member, before eventually making his decision on who is fired – the selected candidate, to whom he gives his reasons for their removal, is pointed at and proclaimed eliminated with the words "You're fired!", a process that may be repeated if another candidate is also fired in the same week. The surviving candidate(s) return to the "House", while the fired candidate(s) depart via a waiting taxi and are taken "home", conducting a brief interview to reflect on their elimination.

While the boardroom scenes differ for the Interviews and Final (see sections below), there are a number of exceptions in regard to the standard boardroom format:

Candidate firing – Sugar can choose to fire a candidate at any time in the boardroom if he deems it noteworthy. Thus a candidate could be fired during the first or second stage of the boardroom, rather than as a part of the bottom three.

Reward – Sugar may withdraw the reward, if the winning team's performance on the task is considered to be too inadequate. In this case, they simply return to the "House" after the results. In later series, rewards were withdrawn completely.

"Bottom three" selection – Sugar may opt to choose who returns for the final boardroom discussion, rather than let the PM make this choice themselves, while he can freely send someone back to the "House" if he feels they do not deserve to return to the boardroom.

Interviews

The Interviews are the penultimate stage of the competition, in which the five remaining candidates undergo interviews with a selection of trusted aides of Sugar; for the seventh and eighth series, this stage was the final step and featured four remaining candidates, instead of five.

In this stage, each interviewer questions the candidates over various topics, from their performance in the process, why they applied for the show, the content of their CVs, their business plans, and any concerns about their personalities. Discussions often focus around brash or controversial statements that candidates have made on their CVs and application forms, with the interviewers determining whether such claims are truthful, exaggerated or deceitful. Since the seventh series, following the change of prize, the interviewers also question the candidates about their business plans, discussing the feasibility of the idea, how the candidate would go about setting up the business, and whether they have the temperament and skills to deliver the plan.

After the interviews, Sugar invites the candidates back to the boardroom to discuss the feedback from the interviewers. He usually fires three candidates at this stage of the competition, leaving two finalists, with the exception of the fourth series that saw him only fire one candidate at this stage. For Series 7 and 8, where the Interviews was the final task, his decision determined the competition winner.

Key:

Interviewer

Final

The final stage of the competition sees the finalists compete against each other in one final task, with the outcome influencing Sugar's decision on who wins the series overall. The final decision is often influenced by not only how successful a candidate is in the final task, but also their overall performance in the competition.

For Series 1–6, the final stage was a business-based task, as a final test of a candidate's skill set and their suitability to the job being offered as a prize. The tasks sees former candidates return to aid the finalists in their task. For Series 7–8, the final stage was the Interviews. Since the ninth series, the finalists' task is to promote their business idea, presenting their proposed plan along with its brand identity to a group of industry experts. In all versions, the finalists reconvene in the boardroom to discuss the results with Sugar. Eventually, he declares his choice by pointing to the winner and proclaiming "You're hired!", or "You're gonna be my business partner!", at which point the winner departs in Lord Sugar's limousine and conducts a brief victory interview, reflecting on their success in the competition.

While only two finalists ever reach the final stage, Series 4 featured four finalists, who were divided up into pairs, working as joint project managers respectively, with Sugar firing the pair with the poorest performance and hiring an individual from the remaining pair.

The Board

Each boardroom session featured in the show consists of the same setup for "The Board", in the form of a panel that evaluates candidates' performances. Along with Sugar (the "boss"), the panel consists of his two personal advisers, who observe the candidates during each task. To date, five people have acted as Sugar's advisers. The following details each member of the board:

Alan Sugar – The central figure of the show its conception. Outside the boardroom, he arranges the tasks the candidates undertake, including arranging the location for the task briefing, which he may give either in person or indirectly via a recorded message, and in some circumstances may attend a task primarily to observe a team while they pitch a product or host a live television task. Inside the boardroom, he makes choices based on feedback from his aides and industry experts, can overturn a result if he deems it wrong or unfair, withdraw a reward if the winning team is not deserving, and ultimately determines which candidates are fired from the process.

For the first four series, the show made frequent references to his connection with Amstrad, the electronics company he founded in 1968, and candidates originally referred to him "Sir Alan" in reference to his knighthood. From the fifth series onwards, he has been referred to as "Lord Sugar", owing to his ascendency into the House of Lords. Since the fifth series, he has been billed in the opening credits as controlling a "vast business empire".. Since its inception, Sugar has appeared on every final episode of You're Hired.

Nick Hewer (series 1–10) – After Alan Sugar signed up for the programme, Hewer was brought in as one of his advisers, as he had closely worked with Sugar since 1983. He also appeared on the spin-off series Young Apprentice, and acted as a penultimate-stage interviewer during the first series of the programme. He has also appeared as a guest panellist on You're Fired. On 18 December 2014 he revealed that the tenth series would be his last, believing it to be "the appropriate time". His decision to leave was fully confirmed on the show's sister discussion programme, You're Hired!, following the broadcast of the final episode of Series 10.

Margaret Mountford (series 1–5) – Mountford was brought on board as Sugar's second adviser, the two of them having worked together previously. On 1 June 2009, she announced in her column for the Daily Telegraph that the fifth series would be her last, citing that her departure would allow her to devote more time to her studies, with the decision fully confirmed during her appearance on You're Hired, after the final episode of Series 5. Despite departing from the aide role, she remained with the show for Series 6–9, acting as an interviewer for the Interviews stage of the competition.

Karren Brady (series 6–present) – Following Margaret Mountford's departure from the role, Alan Sugar assigned Brady as his new adviser. A notable businesswoman in her own right, she had previously appeared on the show as an interviewer in the fourth and fifth series, and as a team leader for Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2007, where she led the team of celebrity women to victory while raising over £1,000,000 for charity. Her first appearance in the role was on Young Apprentice before the sixth series of the main show, and she regularly appears as a guest panellist on You're Fired!.

Claude Littner (series 11–15, 17) – Primarily an interviewer on the show since its conception, he was appointed by Sugar as Nick Hewer's replacement following Hewer's departure, with his appointment being confirmed prior to the broadcast of the eleventh series. Although he operates in this role throughout the competition, he retains his position as an interviewer in the Interviews Stage, and appeared as a guest panellist on You're Fired since 2012.

Tim Campbell (series 16–present) – The winner of the first series, he replaced Claude Littner as Sugar's aide for the sixteenth series, following Littner suffering an injury while cycling. Mike Soutar, a regular of the interview stage, filled in for Campbell in the tenth episode of the sixteenth series. Campbell returned for Series 17 on a permanent basis, again stepping in for Littner, who only appears in the first and eleventh episode.

Notes

Series overview

Note: the episodes are put as number of actual episodes + special episodes.

Series 1 (2005)

The first series began in February 2005, with the opening theme being "Montagues and Capulets". The viewer ratings climbed to almost 4 million viewers for the final episode on 4 May 2005. The winner of the first series was Tim Campbell, (Saira Khan finished as finalist) who had previously worked as a Senior Planner within the Marketing and Planning Department of London Underground. After his victory he went on to become Project Director of Amstrad's new Health and Beauty division at the time, but left the company to pursue other interests the following year, starting up the Bright Ideas Trust in 2008 which offers funding and support for young people wishing to start their own business.

In August 2008, the American cable channel CNBC began to air the first series on Monday nights, but it was ultimately either aired in disparate time slots or not at all due to the network's abrupt coverage of the 2008 financial crisis, leading to the series not being broadcast in full. With CNBC deciding to focus their prime time schedule on financial news programming, the programme's rights were moved to BBC America, where it started transmission on 5 May 2009.

Series 2 (2006)

The second series began on 22 February 2006, with a spin-off programme introduced on BBC Three to air alongside it called The Apprentice: You're Fired!. The second series finished with a record of 5.7 million viewers watching the final being won by Michelle Dewberry. Dewberry briefly took up a post under Sugar following the series, but left in September 2006 after a series of personal problems.

Series 3 (2007)

For the third series, 10,000 applications were received by the production staff, with a promise made to incorporate "tougher tasks and better people", after Sugar expressed concerns that the show was becoming similar in format to that of Big Brother. Alongside this, the BBC also revealed that the programme was being moved over to BBC One and aimed at a more "mainstream audience", with the broadcaster subsequently moving The Apprentice: You're Fired! to BBC Two as a direct result.

The third series started on 28 March 2007 with viewing figures of 4.5 million, climbing throughout the run to a peak of 6.8 million people, all watching the final being won by Simon Ambrose.

Series 4 (2008)

Candidates applying for the fourth series were invited to do so through the programme's official website, leading to 20,000 applications being submitted for the series, and 16 of them making it through to take part in the show. Its first episode aired on 26 March 2008, with its debut attracting 6.4 million viewers. This climbed to around 8.9 million viewers for the final episode, with an additional 800,000 viewers tuning in for the episode's final 15 minutes, to catch Lee McQueen winning the fourth series. Lee went on to initially work for Sugar's company AMSHOLD, where he phoned in sick on his first day.

Series 5 (2009)

Prior to the start of filming for the series, Adam Freeman, one of the lucky sixteen that had made it onto the fifth series, was forced to pull out; it was stated that his reasons for doing so were due to "family matters". This meant that when the series began on 25 March 2009, viewers got to see fifteen candidates vying for the prize, with Margaret Mountford announcing her decision to stand down as a participant of the show during its broadcast, officially confirming it on You're Fired. The fifth series was won by Yasmina Siadatan.

Series 6 (2010)

Following Mountford's departure, Karren Brady was officially revealed as her replacement on 30 August 2009, later revealing in a newspaper interview on 28 February 2010 that the contestants would no longer refer to Alan Sugar as "Sir Alan"', but instead must call him "Lord Sugar", following his elevation to the House of Lords as a life peer. Because of the 2010 general election being held in the United Kingdom, the BBC opted to delay the sixth series until after it had been held, as Alan Sugar had ties to the government at the time; although he stated his intention of maintaining his position in the show, the running of The Apprentice during the general election could have been a "risk to impartiality". Advertising of the series commenced after it was held, throughout the Summer, with the opening episode eventually broadcast on 6 October 2010. This series was the first to feature a two-hour crossover special between the main programme and its spin-off, You're Fired, a format that would be used in the series finals of both in subsequent years.

The sixth series was won by Stella English, who was placed into Sugar's company Viglen. In May 2011, she requested a new role after saying that she was just a "glorified PA", and retained this for a year before it was decided not to renew her contract. The decision drew considerable media attention, after she attempted to sue Sugar for wrongful dismissal in February 2012, only for the legal action to be ultimately unsuccessful.

Series 7 (2011)

Applications for the seventh series began in April 2010. Between the applicants being processed, to the filming of the first task, Sugar announced that the prize had been changed, and that now participants of the show were competing for an investment from him of £250,000, with Sugar becoming their business partner, owning a 50% share, but also providing guidance and support from himself and a team of experts to help develop the winning candidate's plan. Those applying prior to this announcement, were not aware of the prize change until later on. The change was due to the issue involving English and that Sugar was finding it difficult to find roles for the winners. The sixteen candidates who eventually secured a place on the series were revealed on 3 May 2011, via the official website and in a press launch, with the opening episode aired a week later on 10 May.

In a change to format, the final involved the Interviews that candidates undertook, though these included a scrutinising of the candidates' business plans as well. After winning the seventh series, Thomas Pellereau became Sugar's first business partner, whereupon he used his prize to launch a range of manicure products with assistance from Sugar, including a line of curved nail files – the S-file, the S-Buffer and the Emergency File, two curved nail clippers, the S-Clipper and S-Clipper mini and a curved foot exfoliator, and the S-Ped – which were made available with major retailers in the country. While Susan Ma failed to win the series, Sugar said that he liked her plan, later investing into her skincare company Tropic in 2012.

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