The Apprentice moves to BBC One

 

 

Hit TV show The Apprentice is to move to BBC One when it returns for a third series in the New Year.

 

The show, starring tycoon Sir Alan Sugar, has been a ratings winner for BBC Two, with 5.7m people tuning in to watch the final of the second series.

 

Michelle Dewberry beat "gutted" rival Ruth Badger to earn a £100,000-a-year job working for Sir Alan.

 

The Apprentice: You're Fired - presented by Adrian Chiles - will also move to BBC Two from BBC Three.

 

"It's made an unlikely but utterly watchable star out of Sir Alan Sugar.

Peter Fincham, BBC One controller"

 

The Apprentice follows shows like Have I Got News for You, What Not to Wear and Who Do You Think You Are?, which all made the jump to BBC One, which attracts a larger, more mainstream audience.

 

BBC Two controller Roly Keating said the move was a "natural evolution" for the show.

 

"This move reinforces BBC Two's reputation as the home of great hits.

 

"We've been proud to help build The Apprentice into one of the most talked-about and successful series of recent years.

 

"We look forward to continuing to be part of The Apprentice experience with You're Fired and to nurturing other powerful business entertainment formats such as Dragons' Den."

 

Peter Fincham, controller of BBC One, said: "I'm delighted that The Apprentice is coming to BBC One.

 

"It's a strikingly modern and highly compelling series which audiences love, and it's made an unlikely but utterly watchable star out of Sir Alan Sugar.

 

"It'll be a real treat for BBC One viewers."

 

The BBC's director of television Jana Bennett said: "With creativity and flair, BBC Two has successfully grown The Apprentice into a show with mass reach and appeal.

 

"I now believe that it is time for it to fully flourish on the main stage of BBC One."

 

The first series of The Apprentice, broadcast in early 2005, drew an average audience of 2.5m and a 11% share of the available audience, peaking at 3.8m and a 17% share for the final programme.

 

Series two gained an average audience of 4.4m and a 19% share.

 

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Yay :D

more money for sugar

more money for sugar

 

Sweet!:rolleyes:

Puntastic

Puntastic

 

You're fired!!:rolleyes:

i think this is the only reality tv show i watch

Apprentice gets two more series

 

Apprentice gets two more series

Hit BBC One show The Apprentice has been signed up for two more series.

 

The programme, currently in its third series, follows contestants as they compete for a job with business tycoon Sir Alan Sugar.

 

"We're delighted we're doing another two series. The show is fantastic and proving popular with young audiences, too," said a BBC spokeswoman.

 

The format is based on the US show of the same name but it was recently dropped from NBC's autumn schedule.

 

New pastures

 

Donald Trump stars in the US version, which began in 2004.

 

The Bafta-winning UK version has been a ratings success since it began in 2005, moving from BBC Two to BBC One for the third series.

 

Both winners from the first two series have since moved on to other jobs. Tim Campbell, who was kept on after his 12-month contract with Sir Alan's company Amstrad ended, is planning to start a male grooming business.

 

Series two winner Michelle Dewsbury left Amstrad after only a few months in the job.

 

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Excellent news

Eh i'm sick of the US version.i wish they would show the Uk one here!!

You're fired - AND unemployable!!

 

Sir Alan's blast to disgraced Apprentice Katie Hopkins: 'You're unemployable!'

 

Last updated at 12:35pm on 14th June 2007 Comments (7)

Sir Alan Sugar told disgraced Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins she was unemployable on the show, The Apprentice - You're Fired!.

After seeing footage of Katie's back-stabbing on the BBC2 show hosted by Adrian Chiles Sir Alan blasted: "There's no way I could see how anyone could employ someone like that. There's something very sad there."

 

He added: "If I would have seen that kind of stuff, there's no way in this earth I could employ someone like that."

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Unemployable: Katie Hopkins was blasted by Sir Alan Sugar who said 'there is no way I can see that anybody can employ someone like that'

 

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Sir Alan with winner Simon Ambrose: The business tycoon branded disgraced Katie Hopkins unemployable after seeing footage of her backstabbing about the other contestants

 

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Sir Alan appeared on the programme with the surprise winner of the £100,000 job to work with the millionaire businessman, 27-year old Cambridge graduate Simon Ambrose.

When asked by host Adrian Chiles to comment on Katie's back-stabbing and bitching about the other contestant's, including her comment about finalist Kristina Grimes's 'orange fake tan', he said: "I don't know what she's thinking.

"Katie's a clever girl, a very, very clever girl. Why she needs to do that type of thing I don't know. She doesn't need to do that at all."

The former contestant was booed by the audience when she walked into the west London studio.

 

Pantomime villain: The self-dubbed 'alpha female's vitriolic comments have won her no friends during her appearance on show The Apprentice

 

 

She squeezed the knee of ex-army lieutenant Paul Callaghan, - the man with whom she had an affair with on the show but whose relationship ended when he caught her with a married man - in support as she made her entrance.

The 32-year-old mother-of-two sensationally took herself out of the competition when challenged by Sir Alan Sugar about her willingness to relocate her two young children from Exeter to Brentwood.

Hopkins, was told she was through to next week's final, only to quit a few moments later.

She has boasted of affairs with three married men, of being "10 out of 10" in bed and was even photographed naked making love in a cornfield with colleague, Mark Cross.

However, the resultant publicity has seen the self-styled 'alpha-female' sacked from her day job as a brand consultant at the Meteorological Office for bringing the organisation into disrepute.

Ms Hopkins confirmed she was planning to take her former employers, the Met Office, to an employment tribunal, over the sacking.

Sir Alan said: "I just don't understand her really, she is a very, very intelligent person and I only hope that one day she will start directing that intelligence of hers in a more productive way.

"I think she will reflect back in a few years time and realise that she may have wasted some time in doing what she is doing now."

Katie's response to Sir Alan's criticisms were: "The pantomime villain lives on."

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Loser: Kristina Grimes reaction to seeing the horrible comments made about her by Katie was 'not to even go there'

 

 

The controversy surrounding this year's Apprentice continued as 27-year-old Simon Ambrose stole a controversial victory off hot favourite Kristina Grimes to bag the £100,000 job working for Sir Alan Sugar.

The decision shocked many viewers, and some of the other Apprentice candidates were said to be angry with the outcome and considered walking off the Adrian Chiles spin-off show in protest.

Mr Ambrose, whose father and grandfather are both self-made millionaires, will now train as a chartered surveyor while working on a £70 million hotel and golf course development.

The ex-public schoolboy revealed he planned to celebrate by splashing out on a luxury Aston Martin sports car.

Katie is one evil bitch.

Katie is one evil bitch.

 

She sure is! Rumour has it she's now set to carve out a career as the female "Simon Cowell"!!:rolleyes:

Apparently she's being lined up for a new reality show called "Husband Snatch"!!

*screams in horror*

 

She is ugly!

*screams in horror*

 

She is ugly!

 

You'll get no argument from me on that front.............................. :rolleyes:

She's not nice to the eye BUT all those men she shagged weren't complaining

 

what i hated most about her was when she told Adam to return to his ''northern chums''

 

i was so infuriated

She's not nice to the eye BUT all those men she shagged weren't complaining

 

Maybe they have a thing for horses!:rolleyes:

 

what i hated most about her was when she told Adam to return to his ''northern chums''

 

i was so infuriated

 

Maybe, but you have to admit he was incredibly dull!:P

Maybe, but you have to admit he was incredibly dull!:P

I thought he was funny! Right miserable but in a funny way.

I thought he was funny! Right miserable but in a funny way.

 

But completely unintentional!!:P

Adam was great, they were mean to him :(

 

my favourite was christina from the start

 

she should have won, not that dopey Simon (rap star in the making)

She might have won on another day, but for what Sir Alan wanted the winner to do, he thought Simon would be a better person.

 

Adam was one of the better people

Piers Morgan tells Alan Sugar to fire himself!!

 

Piers Morgan: The Insider

 

By PIERS MORGAN - More by this author » Last updated at 16:29pm on 23rd June 2007 Comments

Piers Morgan: looking forward to the newspapers' verdict on 'Britain's Got Talent'

 

This week, Piers Morgan writes: 'Amanda Holden says I dress like a City banker - this from the woman who sticks her ambitious little breasts into Cowell's face every chance she gets'

 

 

 

MONDAY JUNE 11

 

Britain's Got Talent started on Saturday, and the thing I've been most looking forward to is not so much the show itself finally going to air, but the verdicts of that wonderful band of vermin – the newspaper critics.

Now I'm at a slight advantage over most "celebredees" in that I know all these guys personally.

Which means if they rip me to pieces, I can reveal where all the coke-snorting, alcoholic, philandering bodies are buried (allegedly). But that would be churlish... for now, anyway. The boys didn't disappoint: the Star's Garry Bushell said: "Having your performance skills judged by Piers Morgan is like asking Shane MacGowan to check out your teeth."

This from a man so ugly that if our piano-playing pig Rupert looked like him, he'd demand plastic surgery.

The News Of The World's Ian Hyland stuck the boot in, too, saying: "Speaking of dollops, a big hello to Piers Morgan, a man who's always loved his variety (two salt 'n' vinegar, two ready salted and two cheese and onion)."

 

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Now, I may not be exactly size zero, but at least I don't look (and write) like Darren Day's gurning, older, dumber brother.

But who needs enemies when your own colleagues pile in? Amanda "Tear Time" Holden told the Mirror: "Isn't there a leisurewear company that could help Piers lighten up his dress sense? He's always dressed like a City banker. He should get some air round his pasty white legs."

The cheeky little bint. Mind you, this is from a woman who thinks high fashion involves wearing criminally low-cut dresses and sticking her ambitious little breasts into Simon Cowell's face every chance she gets.

TUESDAY, JUNE 12

 

Rather worryingly, the general feeling among the public and reviewers is that I am being surprisingly "nice".

This is obviously deeply damaging to my personal brand, and I intend to correct this cruel misrepresentation as a matter of urgency. Fortunately, someone sent me a Facebook entry on a tribute page charmingly entitled: "I f***ing hate Piers Morgan."

"Piers is the 'nice guy?'". Wrote one fan. "Who else have they got chairing – Pol Pot and Gary Glitter?"

 

Piers Morgan is chuffed that 'Britain's Got Talent' beat Sir Alan Sugar's The Apprentice, in the television ratings

 

Talking of nice guys, Tony Blair called journalists a bunch of "feral beasts" today, which made me laugh out loud.

I remember having tea with Blair when he first got into No 10, and asking him why he was sucking up to Rupert Murdoch so much, as he was at the time.

"Piers," he replied. "It is better to ride the tiger's back, than having it rip your throat out."

The trouble with this theory, as he has discovered, is that tigers tend to get rather irritated with being "ridden" and rip your throat out anyway.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13

 

I never normally get nervous before a TV appearance, but Parkinson is no ordinary show.

As I sat in the small waiting room by the side of the stage tonight, and gazed up at the framed photos of Parky with Tom Cruise, Billy Connolly, James Cagney and Madonna, I suddenly felt rather queasy.

Then Sir David Attenborough walked in, and my nausea worsened. He is not only the cleverest man on TV, he is also the most popular. I felt like Frank Sinatra's warm-up man before a big night at the Sands.

 

Piers Morgan calls Sir David Attenborough 'the cleverest and the most popular man on television'

 

I always like to ask legends what career experience they would relive if they had only an hour left on Earth.

I met Andrew Lloyd Webber at a party recently and he replied instantly: "Elaine Paige, first night of Evita, London."

Sir David was just as quick and adamant: "The bird of paradise. Quite amazing."

THURSDAY, JUNE 14

 

The first live Britain's Got Talent show, and I knew things were going to be tense when I saw Simon patrolling the corridors silently, chain-smoking, his brow furrowed.

"Don't tell me you get nervous, too?" I asked him.

"God, yes," he replied. "This is where you really earn your money."

Amanda was no better. "I'm shaking," she said, and by way of confirmation she grabbed my hand and shoved it to her heaving breast.

If this is what happens when she's nervous, I hope she spends the rest of the week quaking in her sexy little boots.

The coolest kids on the block were Ant and Dec, who glided around backstage cracking jokes and looking as relaxed as a pair of tortoises in mid-hibernation. They didn't make a single mistake in any of the four live shows, which is why they're worth £40 million.

SATURDAY, JUNE 16

 

Simon had a migraine today, which meant we all got a headache. His mood wasn't helped by news that three of the Kit Kat Dolls, the fabulously exotic group of drag queens from Soho, are being exposed in the papers tomorrow as hookers.

Which follows this morning's "BRITAIN'S GOT PERVERTS" splashes about Richard Bates, the George Formby impersonator, who is apparently on the sex offenders list for tickling a 14-year-old boy's feet.

"Well," I said to Simon. "We did promise this show would be unpredictable." He just grimaced and popped more paracetamol.

SUNDAY, JUNE 17

 

The final was brilliant, with Paul Potts deservedly winning for his stunning Nessun Dorma.

Paul potts, winner of 'Britain's Got Talent

 

He sums up the essence of the show so well – an ordinary guy doing an ordinary job, but with an extraordinary talent. Later, I was jumped on during the ITV2 follow-up show by my "biggest fan" (in every sense), called Jodie, who to the delight of Simon, Amanda and Ant and Dec, read a poem to me live on air:

"With all my heart I love you Piers, I've been a fan of yours for years, I've heard Mr Morgan, that the size of your organ, can reduce a young girl to tears."

Suddenly my co-stars, especially Mr Cowell, didn't seem quite so jubilant.

Simon threw a small party at the Dorchester afterwards, where we cracked open the champagne and reflected on a quite amazing week.

"That was the best show I've ever worked on," he said. Which, when you think what he has worked on, is quite an accolade.

 

MONDAY, JUNE 18

I don't want to bang on about the sensational ratings, obviously, but Britain's Got Talent was watched by 13.5 million people last night, making it comfortably the country's No 1 TV show.

Meanwhile, America's Got Talent has also stormed to No 1 with an audience of 25 million. By contrast, Ian Hislop's BBC documentary, Scouting For Boys, got 1.6 million viewers. Who's the "Moron" now, Gnomey?

PS: Oh, and in case you're wondering, Sir Alan Sugar got 6.9 million for his Apprentice final – half our final audience. Time to fire yourself, mate.

*Yawn*

Oh my God I just can't believe it!

I thought the treatment that Sara got the other night was sick to watch and someone from the production team should have stepped in and calmed a few of those t**ts down. Thank god Raef saved her, I felt really sorry for her.

All the people I liked have been fired already :(