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[FeverDog]

Last page of this week's Entertainment Weekly (Oscar race cover with Jennifer Connelly, Charlize Theron and Naomi Watts). "Stupid Questions" segment features The Donald. It's a fun interview (the reporter mostly makes jokes and Donald plays along well), seems like Donald is going to emit a light-hearted and laidback image for the show. He might even be funny.

edited for grammar

Edited by FeverDog, Jan 7, 2004 @ 1:39 PM.

[Penarol1916]

Slate has an article on the first episode. The only line I like is:

Sixteen contestants from all walks of life—but strikingly similar levels of attractiveness—descend on New York to participate in a reality show that is Survivor for Future Business Leaders of America.

[michellemck99]

Seems as though the ratings were strong: NBC won for the night and a lot of that is credited to the Apprentice (here). Came in second behind CSI over on CBS, but the ratings were deemed "solid" in this article.

Also, did anyone catch David on Today this morning? Seems there's no link on the NBC site, and silly me forgot to Tivo it.

Edited by michellemck99, Jan 9, 2004 @ 5:18 PM.

[skat510]

never mind

Edited by skat510, Jan 10, 2004 @ 8:55 AM.

[FeverDog]

Penarol - From the Slate article, I also like the line:

Finally, a show that captures two of the least savory aspects of having a job: busting your ass for no apparent reason, and sucking up to a boss whose status you can never attain.

[clp]

Interview with Mark Burnett from CNN

There is a minor spoiler about what the challenge is for the next episode so if you like to be surprised, you might want to skip it.

[ByrdGal]

An eh article in the Philly Inquirer quoting some local execs about their take on the show.
Philadelphia Inquirer Article

[pseudostudent]

That Philly article is great. It's nice to get some input from some corporate types. But my favorite part was this:

At the ridiculous apartment, Trump's current girlfriend, Melania Knauss, greeted the eight young women, with, well, less than 100 percent enthusiasm. She looked as if she feared obsolescence.

Heh.

[DariaG]

In the second half of today's column for the Washington Post, Lisa DeMoraes discusses the show and predicts that Trump hires a woman, although that's speculation on her part and not a spoiler. There are a couple of bits that might be a teeny bit spoilerish, such as Trump's comments that the women were better than the men, and he wants to hire 5 next time (there's a next time already?), which implies that he wanted to hire 5 from this round. Is he prohibited from hiring more than one of the contestants? Or is it like American Idol, where there's one winner and multiple recording contracts? Do we know?

[Skycatcher]

The Donald unloads on CBS head-honcho Les Moonves here. No, Donald, tell us what you really think! And MB was onstage with him at the time.

[RhondaGC]

Ouch! But, as the article points out, TD can get by with dumping on a TV exec since he's not really in TV for a living. That and the fact he could buy and sell Moonves, CBS and all the other networks together, I guess.

Edited by RhondaGC, Jan 15, 2004 @ 12:40 PM.

[goobaletta]

Interesting how the Canada Post story got the name of the first person fired completely wrong. Best article of the three was the CSM one.

ETA: The Celebrity Justice website has an article on the show. CLICK HERE Apparently if the contestants reveal anything about the show's outcome it will cost them $5,000,000.

Edited by goobaletta, Jan 16, 2004 @ 6:08 AM.

[DariaG]

Evidently USA Today is going to devote a full page each week to this show. In the business section ("Money") no less. In this week's critique, there's an article, a comment by Trump, and analyses from 12 experts. (You'll have to click on some of the boxes on the right of the link above to get to all this stuff.) My favorite comment was from one of the experts:

The next person fired should be whoever selected the men for this show. . . .  Apparently the guys plan to make up for poor business acumen by just being annoying.

[archer1267]

Article in today's Boston Globe about Marquis Jet, its CEO, and what he thought about the apprentices. For people who are wondering "why Boston?" it's probably because it's based here.

A real winner of "The Apprentice"

[Hilary Dickulous]

I found this in today's Wall Street Journal and scanned it in. Yes, it is a gold mine for Marquis Jet.

[Satchmo2]

According to today's NY Times Link Marquis Jet is actually using one of the commercials filmed by the teams. Doesn't specify which one, while implying it's the womens. At $666 per airing ($100k/150 airings) it's probably being shown on late nite TV and is likely only another way for Marquis to stay in the news!

[LTG]

The Boston Globe article mentions that they are going to run the ad in Colorado, where many potential customers have winter home -- I imagine they will buy the local cable system's share of ad time on networks like CNBC and FNN and on financial shows on all-news networks. Those spots probably do sell pretty cheaply, but they reach a very desirable demographic for these ads.

[A Big Potato]

From The Christian Science Monitor article above

Linda Howell DiMario, CEO of the Arlington Convention & Visitors Bureau in Texas said:

But DiMario doesn't plan to miss a single episode. She wants to see how well the contestants can think on their feet. And she likes comparing Trump's decisions with her own instincts. "The gentleman who was trying to get these people to [pay] $1,000 [for a cup of lemonade] - they call him the maverick - he has some great characteristics," she says.

Sam has "great characteristics"................ am I watching the same show she is?

[RhondaGC]

From one of the aforementioned articles:

Not all viewers are fans. For some, taking business advice from "The Apprentice" is about as wise as taking hairstyle advice from Trump.

Hee!

Also, of the articles I read, two of them got the name of the first person fired wrong. Wasn't his name Dave? One called him Dan and the other Michael. Maybe one of them is another name he goes by, but it was a little weird that the writers wouldn't have referred to him by the name they used on the show. Or that they wouldn't do their research to get the name right. Whatever.

[boilergal]

I just heard on the news this morning that Deutch has been approached to do a reality show of his own, after the big success in ratings on Thursday.

[JoBu]

I just heard on the news this morning that Deutch has been approached to do a reality show of his own, after the big success in ratings on Thursday.

Please let it be sans nipples.

[Skycatcher]

"Return of the Short Fingered Vulgarian" (Trump) - an article chock full of delicious snark.

My favorite line =

......Sam, an unparalleled ass-kisser who must floss with toilet paper....

[Mama Tiger]

Great article, Skycatcher! Thanks for pointing it out. My favorite line is:

Watching Trump fly in his personal helicopter as his long, perverse hair rises like a beaver's tail

[DariaG]

The Washington Post TV Week has a possible spoiler about the next episode:
"an underdog assumes a leadership role and steers the group into the doghouse."
Of course, there could be more than one "underdog" between the two teams.