The Apprentice is back! Kicking off with the various sassy walks of this year's contestants sashaying down the unrealistically empty(and clean) London streets. We are treated to a selection of cringe-inducing quotes. London based lifestyle brand owner Daniel quotes a...
So after twelve cringe inducing weeks it came down to James and Sarah veying for Lord Sugar's life-changing investment. The Apprentice finals have an all too familiar rhythm: The two finalists pick from the previous candidates who are keen to help/hinder them. They...
When watching The Apprentice it's easy to forget these are real people who outside of Sugar's boardrooms run their own businesses and have successes all of their own. This series in particular the candidates have proved themselves so inept it's often hard to believe...
This week the remaining candidates had to take over a ‘doggy day care centre’. Once again, team vitality snubbed Anisa and chose Charles for project manager. Team graphene chose James once again, but after a disaster last week this was a risky choice. Anisa being...
This week the 12 remaining candidates had to create an advertising campaign for a brand new out of the factory car. Lord Sugar asked for a cohesive TV advertisement and digital advertising screens. However, from the get go tensions arise, as Anisa who works in...
Cushions have always been a necessity during episode of The Apprentice. A nearby cushion can help shield the eyes during those more cringe inducing moments. This series the cushion has proved more of a must-have than in previous years. The current crop of candidates...
You know The Apprentice is working when you have to reach for the nearest cushion to shield your face from the lunacy on screen. The best stroke worst example of this occurred a few years ago when the teams had to organise a coach trip. This seemed a...
After thirteen series The Apprentice can't help but feel a little stale. There are elements of how each hour is put together that have started to grate on me in recent years. Their continued instance on showing the sixteen of them racing around at some godforsaken...
It’s week two and this week’s task was ’making money from interior design’. The two groups had to create a bedroom that the Stoke Park hotel could sell to to their guests for a ‘premium price’. They had two days to design, decorate and furnish their rooms with each...
Lord Sugar did something a bit different at the start of this series of The Apprentice. He welcomed back previous winners of the process into the boardroom in an attempt to inspire the fresh faced candidates who sat eager to impress him. As a viewer it was our chance...
Welcome to the latest Matt on the Box in which we look back at the TV highlights from the last week or so. First up is the return of Idris Elba's bonkers cop drama Luther; a show that I'm personally a big fan of. The show's return is supposedly due to the fact...
For the second week in a row, The Apprentice has produced a series-first as all six candidates found themselves in the firing line after neither team received any orders for their atrocious healthy snacks. As somebody who actually eats quite a few of these items on a...
Well that was a turn up for the books wasn't it? For the first time in Apprentice history somebody from the winning team decided to take it upon themselves to leave the process after realising they weren't long for the show. While I do feel for Scott I think his...
I'm sure we all have memories of our childhood birthday parties and how we all looked forward to getting our friends together to spend the day together. However I certainly don't remember any of my parties being as horrendous that the ones the remaining Apprentice...
Supply and demand was the name of the game this week with the contestants setting up budget shops in Manchester and primarily stocking it with non-branded items from wholesalers. In my opinion this was the first time in the process where nobody came off looking...
Well that made my job a lot easier. After tolling away ranking lists of fourteen or fifteen candidates Lord Sugar has saved me the agony of deciding who to put in twelfth place by removing three prospective business partners. This is only the second time that we've...
I do sometimes wonder if Lord Sugar realises how much he's actually asking the candidates on The Apprentice to actually do on a weekly basis. For example this week he tasked them with not only selling a children's book but writing it as well not to mention providing...
It does seem that we're rattling through the classic Apprentice tasks early this year as we've come to another of my favourites in which the candidates have to barter with vendors and sell their wares at a trade show. This was the first time in which I felt the teams...
This week The Apprentice combined two of my favourite tasks which involved the teams both going abroad and at the same time trying to haggle for certain items. Lord Sugar, who appeared via a video screen at the beginning of the episode, only had enough cash to send...
After a rather fishy first task, last night's episode of The Apprentice featured the candidates at their prickliest. This was mainly due to the fact that the task was centred around the promotion and marketing of a cactus based shampoo. The teams were asked to design...
With The Apprentice now in its eleventh series I often wonder if anybody who's grown up watching the business reality show thinks the best way to impress in a job interview is by making and selling a load of fishfingers. Certainly judging from the first episode of the...
It's time once again to step back into the boardroom as Lord Sugar and his cohorts are back to intimidate eighteen new candidates all hoping to be his new business partner. As we know this year marks the first time Nick Hewer will not be aiding Lord Sugar with his...
So we're compiling the best shows of the 2000's. Initially I'd planned on a countdown (I'm a bit of a countdown nerd) but to deter a mutiny on social media, I've chickened out and I'll be presenting the shows in alphabetical order. It's important to say it can't...
The BBC have announced that Claude Littner will be replacing Nick Hewer when The Apprentice returns later this year. You may recognize Claude as one of the terrifying people who puts the final few candidates under scrutiny during the interview process. It has been...