All good, solid Game Show Tasks with a range of possible strategies, plus the advantage of a consistent (if ever-dwindling) set of contestants whom we "get to know" as the weeks pass. Tasks include devising a children's toy, obtaining items on a shopping list for the lowest possible price, making food to sell at a farmer's market, and so on. It's a pretty dumb method of recruitment, but with a few minor tweaks - increase the intake from 5 to 14, up the age range a little, and replace the chocolate factory with a Sugar empire (ahem) - it turned out to make for 12 weeks of compulsive viewing.Įach week the would-be tycoons are split into two teams and given a task to carry out, after which someone on the less successful team gets booted out. Instead he picked five youngsters at random, drew them into his world and whittled them down by slowly eliminating those that were too greedy, too obnoxious, too incautious or just too damn fond of squirrels (huh?), leaving just the quietest, poorest and, if we're brutally honest, most boring one to become his new protege. Nothing so conventional for the inventor of the everlasting gobstopper, oh no. When Willy Wonka wanted an apprentice, he didn't advertise the post in the usual way. TalkbackThames and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC One, to 12 December 2011 (14 episodes in 2 series)īoundless and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC One, to 1 November to 20 December 2012 (8 episodes in 1 series) TalkbackThames and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC One, 15 March 2007 to 13 March 2009 (6 episodes in 3 series) TalkbackThames and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC Two/One, 28 March 2007 to 13 July 2011 (61 episodes in 5 series)īoundless and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC Two/One, 21 March 2012 to 17 July 2013 (24 episodes in 2 series)īoundless and United Artists Media Group for BBC Two/One, 14 October 2014 to present Talkback and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC Three/Two, to (12 episodes in 1 series + 1 special)
TalkbackThames and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC One, 28 March 2007 to 17 July 2011 (60 episodes in 5 series + 12 specials)īoundless and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC One, 21 March 2012 to 17 July 2013 (24 episodes in 2 series + 4 specials)īoundless and United Artists Media Group for BBC One, 13 October 2014 to present Talkback and Mark Burnett Productions for BBC Two, 16 February 2005 to (24 episodes in 2 series + 2 specials) Romesh Ranganathan (Regular Panellist: 2015) BBC Three/Two coverage ( The Apprentice: You're Fired):
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