The Apprentice

Al Vallario · 27 Apr 2006 at 18:24

CaptainCook said:
One big advantage of having things filmed in the UK is you can spot exactly when it was filmed by the seasons.

To all those who think the outcome hasn't happaned, its TV - it was
filmed Aug, Sep and October 2005. If you look at the filming you
will see its summer, and the last few weeks when they have been in London,
you can see all the leaves falling from the trees, and everything looks warm,
late summer, early autumn weather.

Definately not Feb, March and April weather, so they are lieing when they say it hasnt happaned yet.

TV - its a big con.

I'm sorry, but your leaf analysis was a waste of time.

The outcome hasn't been decided yet. As of right now two final candidates have been chosen, and we will find out who the winner is (live, perhaps?) pretty much as soon as he/she is chosen. All the other episodes are pre-recorded, obviously, but not the final one

Mr Blonde · 27 Apr 2006 at 18:33

Al Vallario said:
I'm sorry, but your leaf analysis was a waste of time.

The outcome hasn't been decided yet. As of right now two final candidates have been chosen, and we will find out who the winner is (live, perhaps?) pretty much as soon as he/she is chosen. All the other episodes are pre-recorded, obviously, but not the final one

I'm pretty sure the show has finished and it is ALL pre recorded.
My GF played the lawyer woman at tennis two odd months a go and she said then it had ALL been decided back then. Also the house where they've been living has been up for rent £6,000 a week for a while now and as of a month a go gone up for sale - The Gables, Bishops Ave, London. £6 million anyone?

CaneyJ · 27 Apr 2006 at 20:54

I share margarets pain

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sunama · 27 Apr 2006 at 22:37

Mr Blonde said:
I'm pretty sure the show has finished and it is ALL pre recorded.
My GF played the lawyer woman at tennis two odd months a go and she said then it had ALL been decided back then. Also the house where they've been living has been up for rent £6,000 a week for a while now and as of a month a go gone up for sale - The Gables, Bishops Ave, London. £6 million anyone?

That sounds pretty conclusive.

kitten_caboodle · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:02

sunama said:
That sounds pretty conclusive.

hhmmm. Well surely Karen was booted out far too early to know what else went on after she left...and if there is only 2 people left, the house would be back up for sale/rent anyway, as first of all, it's far too big for 2 people, and secondly, the press would be camping outside to see who was still in there!

kitten_caboodle · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:05

hatrick said:
Does anyone know what happened to last years winner, and whether he was still working for SAS or what he did in the year?

It would be interesting to know, I know that the annoying Saira is now a TV presenter or something.

yes he is, it's all in SAS's book

Last I heard he was the director of Amstrad’s new health and beauty division and in charge of this

There was a doco on about it a few weeks ago when the apprentice series 2 started. And here's a story about it (sorry about the source, it's the first one I found) The Scum Article

Feek · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:16

Mr Blonde said:
I'm pretty sure the show has finished and it is ALL pre recorded.

Most of the show has been recorded. Around late summer/early autumn last year I watched the filming of the candidates walking out of Brentwood House and getting in the taxi. Those doors don't actually have security guards standing there, btw

If it has ALL been pre recorded, why would some of the candidates have been seen in a coffee shop right opposite Brentwood House within the last couple of weeks?

All the walk-outs were recorded over a couple of weekends last year. I would suggest that the last task may have just recently been recorded (hence us seeing them) and the final outcome not actually decided yet.

I'm not going to say who was seen in here as it's potentially a huge spoiler.

K.

decmatt · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:26

yep its all pre recorded except the live final iirc

daz · 2 May 2006 at 19:52

I think this latest episode really showed up the lack of Ruth's creativity. Whilst she is strong in a lot of areas, creativity is not one of them.

Edit: I keep forgetting to mention, the sound editor/producer on this series has been absolutely superb throughout.

qwerty · 2 May 2006 at 20:23

daz said:
I think this latest episode really showed up the lack of Ruth's creativity. Whilst she is strong in a lot of areas, creativity is not one of them.

You're quick. I think she told Sir Alan "Creativity is not one of my strong points" and it's only taken you 6 days to get it.

Sorry, I'm in a seriously bad mood because I just fell up the stairs while carrying a full bucket of water. I'm very wet. Now I know why you should always use warm soapy water

daz · 2 May 2006 at 20:40

qwerty said:
You're quick. I think she told Sir Alan "Creativity is not one of my strong points" and it's only taken you 6 days to get it.

Just watched the show on BBC online thingy a few minutes ago, and posted that about half way through.

spirit · 2 May 2006 at 20:41

daz said:
Just watched the show on BBC online thingy a few minutes ago, and posted that about half way through.

even though im on 10meg, that bbc thing was rubbish, it never played smoothly for me.

Joe42 · 2 May 2006 at 20:59

BBC requires 256k to run smoothly. Their servers are a joke.
They had better get some decent servers before they start doing IPTV. If they ever bother with it...

spirit · 2 May 2006 at 21:46

lol im on 10meg, and in london and bbc are peered with my isp, hence it SHOULD be really good for me, its still utter rubbish

Joe42 · 2 May 2006 at 22:16

spirit said:
lol im on 10meg, and in london and bbc are peered with my isp, hence it SHOULD be really good for me, its still utter rubbish

The reason is simple. They have far more users than bandwidth.
IPTV is the future of tv. Broadcasting is dead, everyone has a phone cable, why bother with the cost of satelites and broadcasting facilities.
Sadly the BBC don't fully understand this. The American broadcasters do.

It doesn't supprise me tho when i look at the tecnhology section of the BBC.
Not long ago they had a guy at ces in hannover and he was confusing his megapixels with megabytes. Clearly hadn't got a clue.

HEADRAT · 2 May 2006 at 22:18

I think it may have more to do that there current network is really designed for "website based" content delivery rather than streamed content, the BBC is excellent when it comes to deliverying news.bbc.co.uk etc, seems they may have a way to go with streaming content.

Unicast can only scale so far, the only future for IPTV is proper multicast.

HEADRAT

Al Vallario · 3 May 2006 at 21:00

BBC2 now for this weeks installment of t' Apprentice

Unconditional · 3 May 2006 at 21:02

Place your bets now.

I say Michelle and Ansell are about to go.

SideWinder · 3 May 2006 at 21:06

I say Ansell and Ruth in the final.

Joe42 · 3 May 2006 at 21:16

SideWinder said:
I say Ansell and Ruth in the final.

Same.
I think Ansell will win it.

BBC website seems to be down atm.