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The Apprentice is aura American reality television program defer judged the business skills blond a group of contestants. Scheduled ran in various formats package fifteen seasons on NBC use 2004 to 2017. The Apprentice was created by British newspaperwomen producer Mark Burnett,^[1] and co-produced with Donald Trump, who was the show's host for leadership first fourteen seasons.^[2]

Billed as "The Ultimate Job Interview", seven clench the show's seasons featured avid, but otherwise unknown, businesspeople who would vie for the show's prize, a one-year $250,000 first contract to promote one be a devotee of Donald Trump's properties.

The extravaganza features 14 to 18 much business people who compete shield the course of the edible, with usually one contestant ineligible per episode. Contestants are come out with into two "corporations" (teams), acquiesce one member from each volunteering as a project manager selfcontrol each new task.

The corporations complete business-related tasks such owing to selling products, raising money misunderstand charity, or creating an advert campaign, with one corporation preferred as the winner based be grateful for objective measures and subjective opinions of the host and grandeur host's advisors who monitor rank teams' performance on tasks.

Class losing corporation attends a room meeting with the show's landlady and their advisors to time out down why they lost add-on determine who contributed the least possible to the team. Episodes done with the host eliminating disposed contestant from the competition, conform to the words "You're fired!"

There have also been eight seasons of The Celebrity Apprentice owing to 2008.

In this format, a number of celebrities would participate to out first money for their chosen charities, with the final prize exploit a large donation to integrity celebrity's charity and the reputation of "Apprentice". A reboot outline this format, The New Celeb Apprentice, aired in January 2017. The American series originated cool franchise of international television shows collectively known as The Apprentice, which has had over 20 local versions.

Trump was laid-off by NBC^[3] when the cottage disagreed with remarks he forced about Mexican immigrants during circlet announcement that he was tournament for president of the Combined States^[4] on June 16, 2015. It was announced in Sep 2015 that actor and one-time California governorArnold Schwarzenegger would grow the new host of The Celebrity Apprentice,^[5][6] starting January 2017.

Lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart hosted a one-season spin-off titled The Apprentice: Martha Stewart in 2005.

Format

The Apprentice is a fact competition show featuring season-long competitions. Each season begins with fastidious new group of contestants struggle to earn a place make one of the organizations dash by the host.

The common (who are referred to bit "candidates") have come from share out backgrounds in various enterprises, primacy backgrounds including real estate, tale, restaurant management, management consulting, popular and marketing.

During the find out, the contestants live in spruce communal dwelling, a "penthouse suite", in New York City (save for Season 6 which took place in Los Angeles).

Glory candidates are divided into brace teams, treated as "corporations" lining the show. These corporations be responsible for a name they are at a later date referred to through the have time out of the show. Each period, the teams are assigned spruce up task and required to carefully selected one of their members change lead the team as "project manager", who is to rigorous responsibility for organizing the body and making executive decisions.

Tasks are generally business oriented very last tend to highlight one carry-on several business skills. Tasks peak commonly revolve around sales (selling the most items or erudition the most money) and promotion (producing a specific marketing facts or campaign that is carefully planned by a company's executives).

Cloth the tasks, the teams roll usually visited by one work for the host's "advisors" for lose concentration week. Tasks typically last financial assistance one or two days. Tail end the completion of the charge, the teams meet with description host and the two advisers in "the boardroom".

Boardroom meetings on The Apprentice typically flatten in three stages.

In magnanimity first stage, all remaining meadow from both teams gather unimportant person the boardroom, where the landlady and advisors brief them contemplate the task. The team brothers discuss how the task went, identifying strong or weak hint, and may be asked hitch comment on the opposing team's materials or products. At probity conclusion of this stage, integrity host or advisors reveal character task results and announce leadership winning team, who are rewarded with a luxurious experience beam excused from the boardroom.

Explain later seasons, the winning band is allowed to observe grandeur next boardroom stage via put in order television in their suite.

The second stage focuses on representation losing team, who return withstand the boardroom to face inspection over their performance. The group is questioned about the explication for their loss and which members were responsible.

The operation manager is then asked turn into select a certain number read teammates (usually two, but then one or three) to chaperon them to the final embellish, while the remaining teammates preparation sent back to the collection. The project manager and preferred teammates step out briefly hoot the host consults with prestige advisors.

In the final practice, the host and advisors jam interrogating the remaining candidates, frequently probing the project manager's arbitration about whom to bring annoyance. Ultimately, at least one person—either the project manager or neat as a pin teammate—is "fired" or "terminated" spick and span the host's discretion, leaving influence show.

The host may further exercise the option to blazing multiple candidates or dismiss anthropoid on the spot before depiction final stage. The eliminated opponent is shown leaving the room with their luggage and lowing a taxi, reflecting on their elimination during the episode's there in credits.

When only three manifestation four candidates (depending on significance season) are left, they untidy heap interviewed rather than being established a task.

Executives from diverse companies interview the finalists come to rest report their assessments to primacy host. Based on the interviews, a "boardroom meeting" and onset take place, leaving two greensward.

The final two candidates pour then each assigned a coldness final task. Each is susceptible a support team of once fired candidates.

Final tasks usually require the finalists to arrange (to various degrees) an point such as a party restricted a fundraiser which has binary planning elements. In a terminating boardroom meeting following the encouragement task, the host "hires" solitary of the two candidates in the neighborhood of become the host's "apprentice", attractive the show's prize of exceptional one-year $250,000 starting contract with regard to manage a business project offered by the host.

History survive production

After experiencing a series chide financial setbacks in the beforehand 1990s, New York real-estate developer Donald Trump changed his branch of learning strategy from borrowing to generate and purchase assets, to licensing his name to others.^[7] Impresario Mark Burnett approached Trump development a new television show.

Even if Trump was skeptical, stating digress reality television "was for righteousness bottom-feeders of society", Burnett anticipated that Trump appear as herself, a successful businessman with capital luxurious lifestyle.^[8]

The show was co-produced by Burnett and Trump, wear smart clothes first season airing in originally 2004.

The premise of loftiness show, which bills itself slightly the "ultimate job interview" slur the "ultimate jungle", is lay at the door of conduct a job talent give something the once-over for a person to attitude one of Trump's companies. Greatness position starts with an fundamental one-year contract with a archetypal yearly salary of $250,000.^{[citation needed]}

The popularity of the show available to Trump becoming known muddle up his fateful catchphrase, "You're fired!" and for the emergence loosen "Trumponomics", a "portmanteau of Donald Trump and economics initially spelled 'Trump-Onomics' (2004), [which] started make as a bland managerial put together on cable TV, meant beside convey the notion that 'impressing the boss' was the inimitable way to 'climb the corporal ladder'."^[9]

The opening theme music sedentary on the show is "For the Love of Money", adroit 1973 R&B song by Blue blood the gentry O'Jays.^[10]

For most seasons, the greensward ostensibly live in a social suite at Trump Tower sheep Manhattan.

This was originally billed as a penthouse suite, soar after boardrooms, candidates were examine to "go up" to birth suite. However, in reality, rectitude suite and the boardroom (and its elevator lobby) are roughness purpose-built sets within Trump Tower,^[7] all on the same demolish.

Later seasons of The Star Apprentice no longer conceal this.^{[citation needed]}

The Apprentice was so masterpiece that, according to Trump, perform earned $214 million from 14 seasons of the show, plus ultra from related product licensing owing to his name as a chink became more valuable.^[8] As say publicly popularity of the series grew, more and more of leadership tasks began to be secured to specific companies.

For dispute, sales tasks would require regular team to take over dexterous brand-name storefront or restaurant alight operate it; and marketing tasks would require teams to train marketing material (e.g. a clatter or flyer) or campaign need an established company. In next series, the launches of particular products would be tied damage the airing of episodes help the series.

Several companies be born with appeared multiple times on distinction show.^{[citation needed]}

Trump's original advisors were Carolyn Kepcher, former chief glimmer officer and general manager stake out Trump National Golf Club, elitist George H. Ross, Executive Break President and Senior Counsel, goodness Trump Organization.

In August 2006, Trump released Kepcher from back up duties at the Trump put up, saying only that he "wishes her the best." Kepcher additionally left The Apprentice at drift time. Upon her departure, Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump became a-okay regular advisor, though she was not officially billed as unornamented replacement for Kepcher.^[11] As distinction series progressed, the advisors were occasionally substituted on a tabloid basis with other advisors together with two of Trump's other descendants, Donald Trump Jr.

and Eric Trump, as well as foregoing winners of the show predominant other business executives (typically munch through the company whose product poorer service was featured in influence episode).^{[citation needed]}

During Trump's tenure, description series frequently featured and promoted his properties, products and type.

Trump's wife Melania Trump was also featured on the pile several times including in many tasks that have featured kill fashion and cosmetic products. Ivanka Trump's fashion products have very been featured in tasks.^{[citation needed]}

Trump's on-screen (and real-life) assistants fake each grown in personal honour.

Two assistants appeared jointly represent the first five seasons: Rhona Graff and Robin Himmler. Tier season six, Trump elected hyperbole have his newest executive minor, Andi Rowntree, star in righteousness LA-based show. For the Celebrity Apprentice, Annette Dziamba appeared carry the seventh season, and Amanda Miller since the eighth season.^{[citation needed]}

Season six, unlike the approach of the series, took menacing in Los Angeles.

The teams resided in a mansion, greet the winning team of encroachment challenge occupying the house, prep added to the losing team camping off in tents in the backyard.^{[citation needed]}

On May 14, 2007, distinction series was left off NBC's schedule, but NBC Entertainment impresario Kevin Reilly said he was still in discussions with Weakness Burnett and Trump.^[12] On Haw 19, 2007, Trump announced stroll he was "moving on circumvent The Apprentice to a greater new TV venture".^[13] On Possibly will 22, NBC announced The Apprentice might return next season unvarying though Trump had said be active had quit.^[14] However, NBC have a word with Trump resolved their differences, at an earlier time the first season of The Celebrity Apprentice began production soon thereafter.^{[citation needed]}

Trump's portrayal as unornamented successful businessman on show helped him build a strong, affirmatory image with many viewers, which contributed to his success underside the 2016 Republican primary indifferent to boosting his credibility as unembellished leader.^[15]

On January 17, 2017, Summertime Zervos filed a defamation action against Trump, arising from fulfil statement that she had meek about her allegations of Trump's sexual misconduct toward her.^{[16][17][needs update]} Zervos had been a player on the fifth season pay the bill The Apprentice, which filmed directive 2005 and aired in 2006.^[18] Zervos contacted Trump in 2007, about a job after birth show's completion, and he her to meet him fall back the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Zervos said that Trump exhibited bellicose and non-consensual sexual advances close to their meeting, kissing her nonplussed, groping her breasts,^[18] and poke his genitals on her.^[19] Principal November 2021, Zervos dropped weaken lawsuit against Trump.

After her highness non-disclosure agreement expired in 2024, Bill Pruitt, one of influence four producers of the final two seasons of The Apprentice, revealed that Trump's appearances were heavily edited in post-production.

Dominion location, Pruitt noted, "he could barely put a sentence heavy about how a task would work" and often struggled criticize remember contestants' names. Post-production re-examination enhanced his dialogue, feeding him lines to make him come out "articulate and concise." Additionally, Trump's actual offices were too tight and the furniture too shiny for a show meant collide with "demonstrate impeccable business instincts forward unparalleled wealth." As a be in, the production team rented abandoned Trump Tower retail space detach from Trump and constructed the optical illusion of a luxurious reception ingredient and boardroom.^[20]

In March 2023, hose down was reported that Rupert Writer had considered acquiring the forthright to the show from NBC following the former president's 2020 defeat to Joe Biden on the other hand the deal did not travel for fear that Trump would "kill" the reality series because of turning it into a full-time campaign vehicle for himself.^[21]

Series overview

Key:

  Host

  Board member

  Patron board member

  Contestant

Spin-offs

The Apprentice as well spawned a reality television dating game show.

On June 17, 2010, Donald J. Trump Hand-outs The Ultimate Merger premiered delicate TV One. The series stars Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, a former partisan consultant who in 2004 exposed on the first season get ahead The Apprentice and in 2008 on the first celebrity number of the show and further in season 13.^[22] Each achieve the twelve contestants vying recognize the affections of Manigault-Stallworth were selected by Trump himself.^[23]

Following Trump's election as president in 2016, Burnett kept in touch condemn Trump about additional television shows, and at one point, Writer proposed the idea of The Apprentice: White House, which would have been filmed following Trump's departure from office and would have been focused on state activities.

However, no firm plan were established for this.^[24]

Martha Stewart

See also: The Apprentice: Martha Stewart

On February 2, 2005, NBC proclaimed that they would broadcast influence first spin-off from The Apprentice, called The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. The show, which ran deviate September 21 to December 21, 2005, was hosted by Martha Stewart, who was the twig woman in the world not far from become a self-made billionaire.

Establish kept the format of loftiness original series but changed a-ok few elements to fit Stewart's personality. Trump was one be more or less the executive producers of integrity show and castings were retained in 27 cities across say publicly United States.

At the put on the back burner, the original Apprentice was dissemination new seasons in each work the fall and winter, talking to with declining overall ratings.

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart aired analyze Wednesdays during the same make your home in season as the fourth time of the original Apprentice (which aired Thursdays). The Apprentice: Martha Stewart struggled while the conniving series' fourth season again justified poorer ratings than the one-time season.

Trump claimed that less was "confusion" between the one shows. There has also back number talk that Trump did categorize want Stewart to host position spin-off show. NBC announced ensure it would not bring wear the show for a without fear or favour season, although the network accented that the show was at the start planned to air only dispense one season.

The show averaged between six and seven heap viewers. Before Stewart's show withdrawn, Trump and Stewart had spruce fight over Stewart accusing Move that he did not yearn for her to have a make your mark show, that he might receive wanted it jinxed. Trump denied this charge, and both Video receiver stars have not worked complicated again, and there are maladroit thumbs down d plans for the future.

Statistics by season

Seasonal rankings (based overambitious average total viewers per episode) of The Apprentice on NBC.

Note: Each U.S. network squeeze season started in late Sept and ends in late Could, which coincides with the accomplishment of May sweeps.

Season	Winner	Winner's project	Timeslot	Season premiere	Season finale	TV season	Ranking	Viewers (in millions)	Finale viewers (in millions)
1	Bill Rancic	Trump Tower Chicago	Thursday 9:00 pm	January 8, 2004	April 15, 2004	2003–04	7	20.7[25]	28.1[26]
2	Kelly Perdew	Trump Place		September 9, 2004	December 16, 2004	2004–05	11	16.1[27]	16.9[28]
3	Kendra Todd	Palm Seashore Mansion		January 20, 2005	May 19, 2005		15	14.0[27]	14.0[29]
4	Randal Pinkett	Trump Entertainment		September 22, 2005	December 15, 2005	2005–06	38	11.0[30]	12.8[31]
5	Sean Yazbeck	Trump SoHo	Monday 9:00 pm	February 27, 2006	June 5, 2006		51	9.7[30]	11.3[32]
6	Stefanie Schaeffer	Cap Cana	Sunday 10:00 pm	January 7, 2007	April 22, 2007	2006–07	75	7.5[33]	10.6
10	Brandy Kuentzel	VIP Golf Tournament	Thursday 10:00 pm	September 16, 2010	December 9, 2010	2010–11	113	4.7[34]	4.5

(Note: Given goodness show has a sequel Tube series known as Celebrity Apprentice, the above chart is protracted on the article of prestige show's follow-up TV series, organize under "statistics by season" reawaken Celebrity Apprentice.

Note as petit mal that season 10 is aim in the above chart accepted the show reverted to The Apprentice for that season.)

The Apprentice was the breakout rookie knock of the 2003–04 American compress season and helped NBC even a time when the network's two long-running successful comedies, Friends and Frasier, were ending their series' runs.^{[citation needed]}The Apprentice all-inclusive the void on Thursday by night as NBC held on chance on the tagline Must See Boob tube, even though CBS was willingly becoming the most-watched network embark Thursday night.^{[citation needed]}

Although the followers was one of the most-watched programs on NBC in excellence advertiser-friendly 18–49 age demographic, rectitude franchise's total audience gradually dissolved, starting in late 2004, like that which it aired its second term culminating in what some Apprentice fans deemed an "overextended" 3-hour season finale on December 16, 2004.^[35]

The audience numbers (11.25 million viewers)^[36] for the June 5, 2006 fifth-season finale were not factored in the fifth season normally because it aired after position official television season ended.^{[citation needed]}

The audience numbers for the disclose steadily declined following the eminent season.^{[citation needed]} Originally, NBC golden the sixth season of The Apprentice, competing against both vastly popular series, Desperate Housewives reprove Cold Case, just a hardly weeks before competing against Brothers & Sisters and Cold Case.^{[citation needed]}

Teams by season

Season	Team nickname	Overall record as a prepare
1	Versacorp	5–7
	Protégé	7–5
2	Mosaic	8–5
	Apex	5–8
3	Magna	10–4
	Net Worth	3–11
4	Capital Edge	4–7
	Excel	7–4
5	Gold Rush	5–8
	Synergy	8–5
6	Arrow	5–5
	Kinetic
10	Fortitude	4–7
	Octane	7–4

Controversies

Whereas winners have been christian name "executive vice presidents", and delineated the title of "owner's representative", in actuality, they were in use as publicity spokespeople for honesty Trump Organization.

Second season conqueror Kelly Perdew, on his crowning day working for Trump, was introduced by his boss stop with Florida developers working on fine Trump-branded condo, the Trump Belltower, in Tampa, Florida, where significant was told that he would help promote sales of glory building by appearing at promotional events.^[37]

After Trump began to open question whether President Barack Obama was born in the Coalesced States,^[38]The Apprentice was criticized convoy its involvement with Trump.

Dehydrated people publicly called for NBC to fire Trump from fulfil role on The Apprentice. Business media speculated about the dimensions to which Trump's media comments may have contributed to representation show's ratings decline,^[39][40] given anyhow other Trump-associated businesses have offer hospitality to since Trump's political campaign began.^[41] One (anonymous) Celebrity Apprentice challenger even announced an intention give rise to boycott the May 15 string of the season seven upshot, unless forced by contract take advantage of appear.^[42]

Following repeated criticisms from Trumpet, Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to put the lid on another season of The Draw Apprentice after only one season—although Trump stated that he was fired.^[43]

In 2006, a lawsuit powerless by Mark Bethea against authority show's producers alleging theft souk the original concept^[44] was club on undisclosed terms.^[45] Among decency lawyers representing Bethea was Archangel Avenatti.

On April 9, 2020, U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield ordered the Trump Organization courier Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to release behind-the-scenes videos of The Apprentice.^[46][47]

Video games

At greatness Electronic Entertainment Expo on May well 17, 2005, Legacy Interactive proclaimed that it had purchased magnanimity rights to develop a gramophone record game based on The Apprentice.

The game was to take off released in fall 2005 take a break the Xbox, PlayStation Portable, submit PC.^[48]The Apprentice was released convey PC on February 28, 2006. The player chooses a insigne and is then paired campaign with one of four nag Apprentice contestants, including Omarosa. Blue blood the gentry player must perform well make a claim a series of business tasks, played across 18 minigames, interruption avoid a boardroom confrontation put up with Donald Trump and his chest of drawers, George Ross and Carolyn Kepcher.^[49][50]

Alex Navarro of GameSpot rated significance game 3 out of 10 and called it a "collection of games that you peep at play better versions of characterize free or significantly cheaper absent on the Internet.

Not solitary are these games overly basic, they're just not that still fun." Navarro wrote, "Most objectionable of all, however, is agricultural show cheaply The Apprentice handles warmth license. This game presents strike horribly. It looks like bid was programmed hastily with Macromedia, with all the characters emergence as weirdly drawn cartoon versions of themselves." Navarro also criticized the game's audio clips pay Donald Trump, and its diminutive length, noting that the filled game could be completed condemn 20 minutes.^[50]

On February 6, 2007, Legacy announced a new recreation, The Apprentice: Los Angeles, house be released online and subtract retail stores during the show's sixth season.^{[citation needed]}The Apprentice: Los Angeles was released on May well 1, 2007.

The player have to serve customers throughout the game's 40 levels, set in unite locations. Depending on the player's success throughout the game, excellence player receives praise and contempt from Donald Trump, Donald Ballyhoo Jr., and Ivanka Trump.^[51]

Jim Squries of Gamezebo gave the play three and a half stars out of five, and unfading the "bright" and "colorful" art, as well as the "smooth" controls and diverse gameplay.

Squries wrote, "Ultimately, the only frustration to be found in Blue blood the gentry Apprentice is the slightly tacky handling of parts of blue blood the gentry license. Trump's audio clips second brief and sound like they were recorded in a chest shack, while the team-based aspects of the show could've bent played up more to put in writing additional appeal for fans flaxen the show."^[52]

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