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Apprentice Week 2 – Live Blog tonight
Posted by: | CommentsDon’t forget the Apprentice Live Blog tonight at 9pm on Deborah’s blog.
I’ll have the popcorn on anyway 
Hope you will join in!
Apprentice bits ahead of Week 2
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The first show in the season pulled in 237,000 for TV3. The Herald said on Thursday that:
“New figures show that the Bill Cullen-fronted show, which is expected to be the station’s greatest success story, only scored half as many viewers as Who Do You Think You Are? on RTE.”
The RTE1 programme took 471,000 viewers. A comment during the live blog last week pointed out that RTE shifted the start of Raw from 9.00 to 9.55 and showed an old CSI instead. They are repeating that this week, which is perhaps a sign that RTE know they won’t win on ratings in a head to head with The Apprentice. No doubt the viewing figure will be watched closely to see if the interest is sustained over the remaing 11 weeks.
Live Blog of this weeks episode is happenig over at Deborah’s place, so keep an eye out there and join in the discussion.
The house where the Apprentice Candidates were holed up for the duration of the filming is a closely guarded secret. The Herald (again). got a good look at the plush surrounding.
Local newspapers report on their Apprentice hopefuls. Orla McAdam, Ronan Whitty.
Andrea Roche will make a guest appearance and the show bosses hope she will add “some glamour” to the mix.
Bill’s lookee-likee, Mark O’Rourke is getting great encouragement from his mates on his Bebo page. Latest comment is classic – reproduced verbatim below.
“alright mark seen that you where on the apprentice thingy you’ve come a long way from selling crack to kids to selling 5 banana’s for 50 on moore street you should of fit right in with the big gay head on ya lol.(maybe not since the place is flooded with them imports and tiddley winks)
Sure I’m only jokin about the big gay head thing but them kids will never be right after that dodgy batch.
Anywho a big congrats from the Kelly’s in Oz and we hope ya do well”
There’s no mistaking, this version of the Apprentice is uniquely Irish
Irish Apprentice Watch – Week 1 – The one with the bananas
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Week one review by Ian Walsh
So here we have it then, the adventures of Ireland’s answer to Sir Alan Sugar. The search for his apprentice has begun. Week one, task one and naturally when you have 7 men and 7 women, its Boys vs Girls.
Where better to start than the place Bill grew up; on Moore Street selling fruit. €350 for each team, and profit is expected to be made ‘and I am not talking about Moses’ quips Bill.
Ooooh hello? This is new, ahh its Ireland & its TV3….the ad-breaks, no less than 3 of course, but it gives anyone who can’t sit still for an hour a chance to pop the kettle on, which I didn’t do.
Right, team names & project managers are what we need now. The boys go for Dynamo & it is Mark (who sounds like he smokes 40-a-day) from Dublin to lead the lads. Brave man! The ladies come up with Pheonix and its a very confident Joanna who leads them. Lads being lads try to get one up on the girls by raiding the house of all the fruit, a little bit sneaky, but thats the cut throat world of business for ya !
Something that made me chuckle was the sign the boys had for their stand ‘fruits from the suits’ - these boys are well up for it !!
Mark certainly sounded at home on Moore Street while the rest of the troops went off selling to hairdressers. Got fruit to sell? I know, let’s go to the hairdressers!
The task forced me to ask the question ‘what is the price of fruit today?’ €20 to €30 for a box sounds a bit Irish (excuse the pun).
4.30pm, boardroom time, and who do we see? Bill’s very own Francis. Its the girls who win the task, be it by only €15.03, leaving the lads feeling dejected and one of them to be fired. Like the UK show, three people aren’t safe and they are Mark, David & Ronan.
David was without doubt the weakest during the task for me was told by Cullen ‘he lost the plot’ and became the first candidate to hear the famous words ” YOU’RE FIRED”
Joanna stood out as someone who is very strong leader and a good candidate for the job, I also like Mark’s spirit through the task giving it 110%.
I can see Bill is going to be great with the quotes and we will probably fill a blog with his wise words by the end of the series.
So, 13 candidates remain, Bill Cullen’s search for his apprentice has begun. Cue the bitchiness next week!
Live blogging of the Apprentice was fun
Posted by: | CommentsPhew, the technology worked to make the Apprentice Live Blog earlier this evening a great way to watch the show. Live blogs are normally not interactive, but this one certainly was! Tricky to keep up with the show, write some comments and click the “publish” button for all the other comments coming.
Ian is going to have a review of the show for tomorrow so be sure to drop back to check it out.
A good idea came at the end of the live blog to rotate the hosting of it each week, so next week the torch is passed to Deborah, followed by Lottie and then Gav.
Want to host the live blog ? just raise yer hand I’ll give you a free training course in using Cover it Live.
Apprentice Ireland Week 1 – Live Blog
Posted by: | CommentsI will be live blogging the Apprentice Ireland this evening and it will appear right here!
