After much waiting and excitement the new series of the Apprentice started on the BBC last night. The apprentice takes a mix of 16 people from diferent backgrounds i.e. sales people to lawyers and divides them in to two teams. These teams are then sent tasks each week to compete.

The task this week was to sell fish out of a van at one of 4 london markets where the ‘all girls’ team took victory after making a pitiful £160 (as opposed to the boys £50 or so). They started of with £600 of fish, so when you take in to account the hours involved (about 8 hours) and the amount of people (8 per team) it works out that the boys made about £1 per hour.

In the end Alan Sugar fired ‘Nicholas de Lacy-Brown’ a rather snobbish stuck up lawyer whos claims to be best suited for the job merely because he has a degree and a posh name. Which as any apprentice viewer would know Alan Sugar just doesn’t care about, after all Alan Sugar started of Driving delivery vans and has no degre.

All in all it’s a very interesting mix of people on the new series, with clashes of personality almost straight away. This was mainly down to the fact that the boys couldn’t price their fish properly despite having pictures and names of all the fish.

Thankfully it hasn’t quite gone the way of the American series which was so incredibly over the top, as you would expect (I seem to remember several segments where Donald Trump would enter the rooms with several trumpets playing for him like some sort of royal event)

Next weeks episode looks to be promising with each team having to start and run their own laundry business.  - BBC2 pm wednesday.

What I’m drinking now: Can of Lech beer (from poland I believe)

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