The Apprentice: the Final, review: dessert parlours or dog pyjamas? Lord Sugar didn’t seem to want either
Do dogs wear pyjamas? The Apprentice (BBC One) is a programme that sticks so closely to a formula, and contains so few surprises, that only occasionally do…
The Apprentice’s long-suffering designers tell all: ‘That wasn’t a reflection of my work’
What should a designer do when their client wants to create a product that looks almost exactly – no, exactly exactly – like excrement? When Ben Shutler…
Wham! Squelch! P’tang! Welcome to the funniest slapstick comedy on TV
And the prize is not a job with Alan Sugar! I don’t blame him. Instead, Lord Sugar informs this hilarious batch of self-deluded bumblers, “One of you…
Unless it fires Lord Sugar, The Apprentice is destined for the scrapheap
From the excruciating bungles to the boss’s belligerent reaction, it could have all come from any series over the past 17 years. Bar Sugar’s pre-scripted put-downs, which…
The Apprentice, review: cheer up, telly’s festival of idiocy is back
Somewhere in Britain there is a factory assembling candidates for The Apprentice (BBC One). The women are banded together in their block-colour dresses, like a packet of…
The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den are betrayals of true British enterprise
In 2022, the CBI director-general Tony Danker warns, “the challenge… is now very clear for the UK economy. Significant headwinds and rising costs-of-living threaten the extent of…