I have been watching the Apprentice on BBC1 this year – I think its in its 4th series. I watched some of the first series and then little bits of the 2nd and 3rd but not really catching it as I always forgot it was on!
However now there is the BBC iPlayer which means I can watch it whenever I want (well as long as its within about 7 days since its been on). Its brilliant!! Some of the other channels have got similar things but it doesnt seem to have taken off quite as much as the iPlayer (Channel 4 have 4OD which is not too bad but it seems sometimes part of the software crashes so it doesnt work for me properly. ITV have a service called Catch Up but it doesnt seem to work very well either).
Anyway, back to the reason I decided to post. I have come to realise that the Apprentice now is not really about picking the creme de la creme of the business world to work for Sir Alan Sugar. I think most are just trying to get on TV and get some career as some reality TV star. Based on the episodes so far such as running a pub, a dry cleaning business and a photo service they are mostly (if not all) rubbish!! In the dry cleaning one for example one idea they came up with was to charge £4.99 per item, no matter if its a pillowcase or a duvet. It meant an order for a hotel was £4999. The hotel normally paid about £200. She tried to make it sound even better by saying it included a 24 hr hotline. WHAT!!!! Do you normally drop off your laundry and then want to call them up a midnight to see how they are washing!?!? This week in the photo task one team had a David Beckham looklike and you could take photos with him and then have it on things like cups and mouse-mats. However they had problems with the printing and eventually managed it – somehow!!
They had given Lucinda the task to get the photos from the memory card to the computer and then print it but she couldnt do it and said was not technical at all etc – however they gave her that job The project manager Helene wasnt much better just going on about she had been given a job and get on with it and she was even less technical. However it was just copying files from a flash key to a computer!!
One other thing: The photos were being printed on normal A4 paper and people were being charged £15!!!! They didnt seem to complain either!! (Although apparently online there is some un-seen footage of some woman complaining). Dear me!!!
Joe Calzaghe beat Hopkins early on Sunday morning in his first match in US. He won by a split decision. I didnt watch the match but have seen highlights. Hopkins didnt take the result too well – typical bad loser going on about how he took Calzaghe “to school”.
