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The Apprentice (UK) - General Information
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Status: Airing Season 8
Premiere: February 16, 2005
Classification: Reality-TV
Genre: Drama | Financial/Business
Network: BBC One (United Kingdom)
Airs: Wednesdays
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Season 8 -- 12 episodes -- Mar 21, 2012 to May 30? 2012
8x01 -- Mar 21, 2012 -- Blank Canvas
8x02 -- Mar 28, 2012 -- Household Gadget
8x07 -- May 02, 2012 -- Flip it in Essex
8x08 -- May 09, 2012 -- Street Art
8x09 -- May 16, 2012 -- English Bubbles
8x10 -- May 23, 2012 -- Discount Dealing
8x11 -- May 29, 2012 -- The Final Five
8x12 -- May 30, 2012 -- Affordable Luxury
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About the show
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The Apprentice is a British reality television series in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a 100,000 GBP ($157,410 USD) a-year job as an apprentice to the British business magnate Lord Sugar (previously known as "Sir Alan Sugar").
In series one through six the winners went on to work at Amstrad, an electronics manufacturing company founded by Sugar (but since sold to BSkyB) or one of Sugar's other companies, Viglen, Amsprop, or Amshold.
In series seven, the prize changed to a 250,000 GBP ($393,525 USD) investment in a business of the candidate's creation, with Lord Sugar as a 50% owner. The Apprentice, billed as a "job interview from hell", is very similar in format to the American series of the same name, which stars entrepreneur Donald Trump.
