British Expatriate Network

Sean the Brit. Hit or miss? So far he's doing OK and hasn't let us down yet. I wonder how long he's been in the US and I wonder if he's ever found Britnet!

...and using his accent to his advantage with the ladies so it seemed on Monday night!

I like him.

I'll have to wit for this one to make it across the pond....we're a few weeks into ours and the best phrase to date from Alan Sugar is

"How come you've gone from Anchor to W*nker!"....Classic!

Contestants as annoying as in the US, although just not quite the same.......

From the One Episode I watched when I was over in Blighty on Holiday, I would say the UK Apprentice is much closer to the original concept in the first series than where "The Donald" Version is now.

The NBC version is now pretty much an infomercial for whoever is sponsoring that weeks task and the Donald playing to the camera and trying to "shock" with the firings. The first series and to an extent the second, I would plan my Thursday evening round being there to watch it, now I cannot be bothered.

If BBC America, or Fox Reality show the UK version over here, I'm setting the Tivo! but I won't be counting on that happening....

I'd like to see an episode where the bank finally tire of Donald Trump and start liquidating what little assets he has left.

If he's a good example of a sucessful businessman, then I'm a monkey's uncle.

A better show for Trump's talents would be for him to give all his money to a contestant and see if they can do better than he did with his daddy's money. wink

The Apprentice here in Britain has far more fire and a few more chancers blatantly blagging it. The boss is Sir Alan Sugar - Spurs and Arsenal fans can make testament to what a spanner he is. But in good British style the show features oodles of opportunities for Sugar to call the contestants various names too cheeky for US tv. It's both refreshing to hear frank comments, and due to being away 4 years its alos can make you wince. So stuff like "shut your bloody gob - God you are an irrtating twat" to much more vigorous language.

I really didn't like The Apprentice with Donald Trump - clearly a prolonged commerical for a shinky businessman whi inherited his dad's money just as he was going into bankruptcy. Here I haven't decided but it is interesting.

I thought this was just a crap show filling up air space. Apparently I'm entirely wrong.

http//www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1766085,00.html

"The Britons of 2106 would need only gawp at the antics of Syed, Ruth and Paul Tulip, under the gimlet eye of Alan Sugar, and they would know all they needed to know about our national life at the start of the 21st century."

Riiiight.

"During the opening shots and throughout the programme, the images of the Gherkin, Canary Wharf and other skyscrapers dominate the skyline - a priapic reminder of the dominance of man, capitalism and the drive of testosterone to create, build and generate profit. ... Low tax and inflation rates, a flexible, mobile and non-unionised are the ideal conditions for seduction. Plenty of fluffing by politicians, PR companies and the media help to stiffen the economic pecker. The prospect of a profit has a Viagra-like effect. Skilled young people pour in to get a piece of the action and feel the throb of the nation while the economies of their home countries struggle on impotently. ... Each thrust of the body of the City strives to reach the ecstasy of an economic high while it drains the energy of the Earth. A post-coital smog often lingers over London ... One of two words might sum up this predicament to some extent. One is nymphomania like a sex addict, we cannot get enough of capitalism, the lives it enables us to live and everything around us which it produces. The other, however, is more disturbing rape."

Which is why the guardian is the funniest newspaper in Britain.

Sean the Brit won tonight - and deservedly, IMO D Well done Sean!

I was cheering him all the way too!

Congrats Sean!