Look Busy, Here Comes The Boss

I imagine that the Apprentice is a show that made it to the airwaves 20 years too late, as it would have been a wonder to behold in those later years of Thatcher’s premiership.� A bunch of yuppies being put through their paces in such a way and delivering such abject demonstrations of business acumen that would have shaken the nation’s seemingly, unquestioning belief in capitalism to its very core.� However, here we are in the last vestiges of Blair’s Britain and a more cynical audience are

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Tags: Adrian-Chiles, Alan-Sugar, BBC1, Reality, The-Apprentice

What Not To Cry Over

Today is Comic Relief day… the TV marathon usually comes over as a perfect case study in truly awful television but it becomes oddly watchable the more drink you consume. However, the clips of the less fortunate from home and abroad that are juxtaposed with the cringeworthy celeb scenes throughout the event, demonstrate the power of the medium perfectly and, on a personal level, almost all of these have the same emotional impact of Michael Buerk’s Ethiopian reports

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Tags: Alan-Sugar, Alistair-Campbell, Apprentice, Cheryl-Cole, Comic-Relief, Maureen-Lipman, Piers-Morgan, Reality, Tara-Palmer-Tomkinson, Trinny-Woodall