Let the Games Begin, Sugar Style

Yesterday saw the start of the new series of the Apprentice, which was already one man down before they got meet Sir Alan. Now as usual the first week is full of manual labour and cleaning, how unoriginal. Anyway, the 12 week slug-fest has started and for the next 12 weeks, the nation will forced to a diet of Sir Sugar and the equally annoying apprentices. And lets be honest, that is part of the show, the whole dynamic and of course there will be people you want to win or want to stab.

Already, after seeing the first week and whats coming up next week, they need some more ideas on tasks, considering they did cooking last series about the same time as well. I'm not here to blast the show, because I like it, it's a good piece of TV, and strangely not the sort of thing you want to watch on box-set, unlike dramas that are done in this long week-by-week style. And also the fact that it is straight after Waterloo Road helps it even more.

It's sister show in America is a smash hit as well with no more than Donald Trump as the Sir Alan figure. But in the end the winners do go to work, but for one of Sugar's sons because he doesn't have anywhere to put them, he doesn't have a real company anymore (but he's still worth A LOT!!!).

It has been reported that the show is a bit, as we all are, struck for cash. For example, the overseas task is no more, they just can't afford it anymore, but don't worry it wasn't coming out of Sir Alan's pocket, it was coming out of the TV licence, in other words they saved half an hour TV for you.

Also the new series means the return of Match of the Day 2, The One Show and so on presenter, Adrian Chiles, the jack of all trades, and his stupid, at times, panel of guests on the BBC Two Show, "The Apprentice: You're Fired". Yesterday, the panel included Carol Vordaman (because she was on the Comic Relief Verison, by the way I was at Comic Relief and she needs to lose some weight or wear less relieving clothing), Rufus Hound and Multi-Millionaire businesswoman Gill Fielding. What?

The only thing I would say against the show is that half of the show is in the "Board Room", a whole half an hour (that's more bitching than ITV's Goldenballs, and I've seen it live, most boring thing ever). And only a half an hour with them actual on the task. But sometimes the early weeks can be not great with so many people, when over half the people can't sit down in the Board Room thats not great.

It should hot up and will be one of the top and most watched shows on TV but the end, also it will be an easy News story for the BBC. Lets be honest, by this time the lady with the calculator who got fired, would have done the rounds on the BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio and might be doing some interviews for Newspapers and so on and until the last week when they all return, no one will remember who she was tomorrow (unless you watch it on BBC iPlayer, they've got it on Series catch up, so the week after its over you can take 12 hours out to watch every single episode).