It's unrealistic, it's overformulated and scripted, and it doesn't really reward the most able people. But despite that many of us love it - yes, The Apprentice returned last night for a new series.
I'm a fully paid up member of the fan club and as such have decided to dedicate half an hour each week for the next three months to providing my thoughts on each episode.
To kick-off with, a few key observations from this week's 'meaty' opening episode are below, but I'd also recommend reading The Guardian's wonderfully critical live blog from each show night:
Early frontrunner - Shibby, the surgeon with the dapper tie seemed to be fairly level-headed and pulled off a big deal. Then again, you'd half hope that was the case given his day job
Who the hell are they? A split award this week shared between Christopher and Sandeesh - seriously, did either of them say anything at all for the entire 60 minutes?
On thin ice - again a split award here between Alex (the PR man, oh the shame of it) and the blondest of the blonde, Melissa. She's got talent but just seems to have that Lucinda quality for winding just about everyone up
The All Balls Award - otherwise known as the Claire Young award (remember her?), this one goes to the just-out-of-preschool Stuart who seems to have a mouth quicker than Usain Bolt's legs. Bound to be entertaining going forwards
Best dressed - as noted above, hats off to Shibby for a cracking red, white and blue tie number
Worst dressed - Joanna. Come on girl, first week and the best you can pull out is a plain grey effort? Doesn't bode well
Line of the week - absolutely no contest here. Raleigh's (what a great name) emotional outburst towards the soon to be departed Dan that his leadership "was shameful" complete with trembling finger point contained all the power and presence of a nine year old with a broken ice cream cone. I for one am eager to see what the 'BMX' comes up with next
So there we go. One week down, eleven or so to go
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