So.
As you may or may not have gathered, this is the first time I’m watching The Apprentice properly – I’ve always enjoyed the odd episodes I’ve watched, but I’ve never bothered watching it as a series before. I’m enjoying it very much.
But I feel I should make up for lost time – happily most of it appears to be on Youtube, and so I thought I’d start at the very beginning (warning, contains swearing):
Blimey, Alan Sugar used to be a lot more terrifying didn’t he? He’s just Dr Fun these days. His autobiography is a decent read, especially the bits about The Apprentice (two other people were considered for the job, one didn’t want it, the other suggested Alan do it, and he wasn’t best pleased with how the first Celebrity Apprentice turned out).
I love seeing how shows develop over a period.
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=22443&_t=Italy+applied+for+2011+Eurovision+Song+Contest!
Italy applied for 2011 Eurvision Song Contest!
Probably represented by Nathalie Giannitrapani, the winner of the latest XFactor
I can’t help but wonder if this has anything to do with Lena proving that western countries can win the thing after all?
Austria are back in too.
Slovakia are back out.
Quite possibly. They did withdraw with the parting shot “The cost is too high for small and mediocre rewards”, after all.
Although in their last one they came third.
Also legendary legend Tom O’Connor is on Hairy Bikers Cook Off.
Love the editing of this weeks The Apprentice – to make it look like the teams were racing back before the deadline to somewhere in the Docklands – when in reality they were heading back to a grotty looking industrial unit next door to Park Royal tube station in west London.
I was probably the only shouting at the tv, saying to one of the teams that as it was a Friday evening and the deadline was 6.30pm and had to run with the very slow crawl up A40 and the usual backlog upto the Hangar Lane Gyratory, being in the West End at 5.45pm was not a good idea.
In other news – apparently according to the one sentence ‘free-read’ on the Broadcast Now website, Deal Or No Deal will still be recorded in Bristol, but edited at Television Centre. EndemolUK have signed a multi-million pound deal with BBC S&PP to post-produce the show. I guess we can now expect more awkward very tight shot cuts to the audience, with laughter on the soundtrack but no-one in the shot is actually laughing (for examples, see Pointless)
Do I win a bonus point on “Whose Leak is it Anyway” as I can identify the girl standing next to the answer in #6?