The Apprentice - Series 4 + Specials (2008) PDTV (XviD)

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Series 4 Episodes

1/12
Here we go again. That music, those aerial views of London, the pumped-up young loudmouths towing their little cases behind them and looking like they'd eat their own arms for a sniff of victory. Ah, it's good to have them back. One of the new intake promises she'll "not only beat the other candidates, but thrash them". Lovely. Another declares: "As a salesperson, I rate myself as probably the best in Europe." If it were a bragging contest, they'd take on the world. But it's not; instead they've got Alan Sugar to contend with. First, he puts them straight on a common misconception: "Mary Poppins I am not." No, indeed; far from being a flying Edwardian nanny, they soon gather he's a fuzzy old grump whose main aim in life is to terrify them. He succeeds. His first instrument of torture is a task where the two teams have to sell 600 pounds' worth of fish on the streets of London. The girls embark on a turbot-charged selling frenzy, while class war erupts in the boys' team. It's a flying start. The Apprentice - You're Fired! follows at 10pm on BBC2.

2/12
Sir Alan Sugar puts 16 applicants through the job interview from hell. After an exhausting first task, the applicants are challenged to set up an overnight laundry business. They persuade customers to part with their washing (including hundreds of sheets from a hotel chain) then clean into the early hours. The following morning, following Sir Alan's warning not to lose a single sock, they return the clothes. Sir Alan's aides Nick and Margaret watch, and a second applicant will be fired.

3/12
Four series in and The Apprentice is still finding new ways to crush the life out of its candidates. This week Sir Alan Sugar sets them the challenge of taking over a pub and turning it into a themed restaurant.

4/12
This week the candidates are finding new depths of loathing for each other. Their task is to take and sell portrait photos of people in Bluewater shopping centre, but a simple job soon turns into something poisonously ugly, like watching scorpions fight in a jar. Brilliant.

5/12
Is Sir Alan angrier than ever with his browbeaten candidates? You get the feeling that this year his fuse is so short that even the mildest of mess-ups makes him snap like a dry twig, as if he genuinely despises the young people queuing up to work for him. I can't imagine why, when they're such a glittering bunch of charmers. It still feels hard to pick out the potential winners at this stage, though when he was fired, Ian pointed to Lee and Lucinda as possibles, which gives you an idea of how unpredictable the race is. This week, the teams head off to the country where they have to devise new ice cream flavours to launch into the London market. Humble pie flavour, anyone?

6/12
Prepare for another priceless episode tonight as the candidates nearly drown in their own waves of misplaced confidence. The task is to create an original greetings card. A cosmetic surgery card is one idea, a green "love your planet" card another. Incredibly, the latter takes off and the bile rises in our throats as we listen to passionate eco-prattle from a man who boasted about the Porsche he bought, aged 23. There are lighter moments, too, such as the Great Three-Hour Apostrophe Debate. Agony, but wonderful.

7/12
The reality show that knocks others into a little wheelie suitcase and puts them in a taxi to oblivion continues. Tragic at best, insanely petty at worst, this series has arguably had fewer out-and-out caricatures than previous years. I've even heard the candidates called dull, which is daft: OK, there's nobody as intense as Syed Ahmed or Jo Cameron but the likes of blinky Lucinda and plummy Raef haven't done badly on the nuts front. The trouble is, who knows if either of them will have made it this far? Let's hope so, because I'd love to see them haggling for deals at market stalls in Marrakesh. Yes, this year, in a brilliant move, the purchasing task is transposed to Morocco (sadly, there was no preview DVD). The shopping list of ten items, to be bought as cheaply as possible, includes a kosher chicken and a Green Mosque alarm clock. And remember, last year the two teams' results were separated by just 97p.

8/12
It's time for a breather. After last week's boardroom blitz ("I'll fire the 'ole bloody five of you if I have to - it don't bother me at all!"), tonight the stress levels drop. But only a little. The task looks a doddle after haggling with Marrakesh street traders: sell dresses and accessories at a wedding show. But first the two teams have to select their wares and decide whether punters at Birmingham NEC will plump for wedding dresses costing hundreds of pounds - or designer outfits costing thousands. Things are going smoothly until the episode's laugh-out-loud highlight when one of the candidates decides to don a fluffy bear outfit to help sales along. But there's real emotion in the boardroom: you know it matters to these poor souls whether they win or not when you see the tears brimming in their eyes as Sir Alan prepares to point the finger. Heaven help them.

9/12
This week it's the always comical advertising task, where the remaining candidates find out that even if TV ads seem childishly simple, creating them from scratch is not quite the doddle they imagined. It's a task calculated to inflate the candidates' egos as they play at being directors (the boys generally love this bit, swanning around the studio barking "Action!" like little Cecil B DeMilles), before puncturing their dreams as they see their finished results and look with horror on the amateur-hour cobblers they've created. And to help the comedy along, Sir Alan has chosen a nicely unglamorous brief: create a campaign for an exciting new brand . . . of tissues.

10/12
With just six candidates remaining, the pressure is on to win and make it through to the penultimate task. Sir Alan gives the teams a choice of supercars and challenges them to rent them out to members of the public. It's not hard to turn heads with such high-end merchandise, but interest soon dries up when the teams reveal the price tag to passers-by.

11/12
Sir Alan likes to say his series is "the job interview from hell", but mostly it's nothing of the sort - it's commercial capers followed by tortuous postmortems. Tonight, however, very much is the job interview from hell. It's the penultimate episode, where the remaining candidates get a one-on-one grilling from some of Sir Alan's trusted friends and business associates. As a rule, the interviewers are as warm and cuddly as you'd expect of Sugar's mates. In other words, they're snarling attack dogs, whose aim is to maul the interviewees until they're little more than scraps of meat in fashionable businesswear. Obviously, this is entertaining to watch, though look out for the moment when your least favourite candidate is so brutally done over, you feel for the first time in 11 weeks an actual spark of sympathy. Despite being all talk, it's a gripping edition, not least because it turns out we may not know the candidates as well as we thought. And because, as one puts it, "If you nail this, you're in the final."

12/12
Who wins this series tends to be, in the great scheme of things, an irrelevance. Saira Khan and Ruth Badger have done just as well out of being mouthy runners-up as Tim Campbell or Michelle Dewberry ever did as winners, and arguably better. But for tonight's final, at least, it matters terribly. And if there's one thing this series knows, it's how to crank up tension to the point of weeping agony, so we can expect world-class foot-dragging as Sir Alan puts on his wincing face and tries to decide which candidate to hire. But before we get to the boardroom, there's a final task to negotiate, one that gets the finalists to dream up an original male fragrance and launch it to an audience of industry experts. Best of all, they can choose from a parade of fired ex-candidates to help them.


Series 4 Specials


1/5
The Apprentice: The Worst Decisions Ever
Thursday 03 April
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2

It's the toughest job on television and has given us some of the funniest TV moments ever ? remember last year's winner Simon Ambrose and that trampoline? From taking cheese to France and ordering too many chickens to designing calendars and selling art, we love it when it all goes wrong. In this hilarious clip show, former candidates and celebrity fans relive some of the best moments to come out of the worst decisions ever made on the Apprentice.


2/5
The Apprentice: The Final Five
Monday 2 Jun
10:45pm - 11:40pm

As this year's series of The Apprentice draws to a close, BBC ONE profiles the remaining five candidates, revealing the stories behind their super-confident egos. What really makes these budding businessmen and businesswomen tick?

Parents, friends and former bosses, along with Sir Alan's trusted aides Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the final five personalities. Strong language.


3/5
The Apprentice: Why I Fired Them
Sun 8 Jun
10:20pm - 11:20pm

With just days to go before Sir Alan Sugar chooses his Apprentice, a chance to remember the candidates who didn't quite make it.

From selling fish and buying kosher chickens, to advertising tissues and designing eco-cards, this year's budding business men and women have been tested to destruction. Reliving their worst decisons, Sir Alan reveals how, each week, he decided who would hear his famous phrase, 'You're fired'. Contains strong language.


4/5
The Apprentice: You're Hired
Wednesday 11 June
10:40pm - 11:15pm
BBC 1

Having started 12 weeks ago, Sir Alan Sugar's search for his apprentice is over for another year and he is joined by
the winner and runner-up to discuss why he made his decision. Sir Alan also looks back over the series and shares his
opinions on some of the other candidates which have caught his eye throughout Britain's most gruelling job interview.


5/5
BBC Breakfast Interviews with Fired Candidates

A compilation of interviews conducted with the recently fired Apprentice candidates the following day on BBC Breakfast. The interviews tend to last approx. 10 mins.

**SPOILER alert**
Please note, this special contains interviews with fired Apprentice candidates, the day after they have been fired. The filenames in this torrent contain names of each fired candidate. All the specials are in a seperate folder, so no peaking!

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