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…

Lord Sugar left ‘extremely scared’ from hate mail over Labour anti-Semitism

Lord Sugar said he was left “extremely scared” after a self-confessed “Jew hater” attacked him over comments about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Patrick Gomes denied sending…

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…