(From 2004)
Last night I watched the special 3 hour conclusion to this season’s “The
Apprentice,” a “reality” show that pits aggressive, young MBA types
against each other for a job with Donald Trump. Each week the show
concludes with the porcine Trump telling the losers of that episode:
“You’re fired.” The survivors compete in the following week’s contest.
It will come as no surprise that this show has parallels with the hit
show “Survivor,” in which similar contests are mounted on remote desert
islands or the Australian outback, etc.. The ex-paratrooper Mark Burnett
produced both shows.
During a commercial break, there were ads for another NBC show called
“The Biggest Loser,” where obese people compete with each other in a
weight-losing contest. In the final moments of last night’s “The
Apprentice,” another Burnett production scheduled for next season was
hyped. It will feature amateur boxers competing with each other. It is a
rip-off of a show that has already been aired on Rupert Murdoch’s network.
https://louisproyect.org/2004/12/17/the-apprentice/
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