"The Apprentice" (2004) TV series 2004-????

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Creator:

Mark Burnett

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

Release Date:

8 January 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Game-Show | Reality-TV

Tagline:

The ultimate job interview

Plot:

A reality-tv based show in which contestants compete for a job as an apprentice to billionaire American Donald Trump.

Plot Keywords:

Task | Team | Boardroom | Competition | Business

Awards:

Nominated for 9 Primetime Emmys. Another 10 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

Donald Trump	...	Himself / ... (115 episodes, 2004-2009)
Robin Himmler	...	Herself / ... (74 episodes, 2004-2006)
Carolyn Kepcher	...	Herself (68 episodes, 2004-2006)
George Ross	...	Himself / ... (65 episodes, 2004-2009)

Also Known As:

Celebrity Apprentice (USA) (seventh season title)
The Apprentice 2 (USA) (second season title)
The Apprentice Los Angeles (USA) (sixth season title)
The Apprentice USA (UK)
The Celebrity Apprentice (USA) (eighth season title)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Argentina:Atp | Malaysia:U | Australia:PG | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Company:

Trump Productions LLC

Trivia:

The contestants had to keep their cell phones in "walkie-talkie" mode to make sure they weren't cheating by using connections made prior to the show or by making private phone calls.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the episode where Audrey is fired, she is seen in the boardroom and lobby wearing a dress. When she walks out onto the street and into the taxi, she is clearly wearing pants.

Quotes:

Donald Trump: Now, everybody assumed that I was gonna be picking a really beautiful woman, like Amy. And, hey, I'm stuck with two guys.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Saturday Night Live: Tina Fey/Carrie Underwood (#33.5)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

For The Love Of Money

An ongoing masquerade

I am at present following the series in the British version on BBC 2. It's exciting and fun but once one starts to realize that this is the reflection of the real world out there it tends to make one despair. Those guys "in the fast lane" who or what are they really? Very shallow people who are extremely insecure in the sense that they are always trapped in the game of sucking-up to their superiors and/or treading on their inferiors. Their main concern is that nobody sees through their fake approach and this attitude alone consumes an enormous amount of personal energy.These are the guys and ladies whom when you catch them on one of those rare occasions when they're off-guard, will convince you that there is essentially nothing truly exceptional about their personality and that they are basically constantly frustrated by the nagging thought that the price they pay for their ongoing masquerade, might not be worthwhile at all. As to the concept of this "reality" game itself, one can remark that there are obvious shortcomings as to its effectiveness: granted that the idea of opposing two different teams in order to achieve maximum results is acceptable, one has to take into account that the "ego" competition between each member of both groups is so predominantly present that it is without any doubt detrimental to the concept of team-building in general and consequently also to the achievement of the preliminary defined objectives.On another level, one wonders if it isn't precisely this form of "work ethic" that has also contributed to the collapse of the financial urban jungle we are witnessing at present (previous sentence added April 2009)