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While playing with my new digital camera, I was half watching "The Apprentice" on BBC2. For those who don't know, it's a format imported from the United States, where a bunch of people are in a '12 week interview' to get a job with a high-powered business (in the British case, with Sir Alan Sugar).

Is it me or is everyone on that tv programme thorougly unpleasant? Not unpleasant in an Adolf Hitler kind of way, but unpleasant in a Blur "Charmless Man" kind of way? The sort of people who'd make you claw your own eyes out if you were forced to spend half an hour with them at a party? The women were by far the worst - agressive and bitchy and most of them pretty unpleasant to each other.

Sir Alan is probably the most pleasant of the lot. In fact, although Sir Alan is pretty abrupt and belligerent (as he admits) unlike his contestents, he's not a weasel. I would buy a beer for Sir Alan, but the rest of them? Feh!

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  • ...but here in the U.S. a show about likeable people having a civilized competition whilst always being good sports about it would probably not pull a lot of viewers. They want treachery.

    • It's not like the contestents are trecherous - they are just...well...utterly charmless weasels. You know Dilbert's PHB? Imagine 12 people with the PHB's personality bypass and you probably have a pretty good picture. None of them have the imagination to be treacherous...they are sort of typical the-worst-of-middle-management material.

      • No trachery? Well, forget it then! Do they at least lie? Even the utterly grokless lie.

        I've noted that most TV shows that cross the Atlantic don't do well. The U.S. version of "Cracker," for instance, lacked Robbie Coltrane's brilliant performance, and also a certain subtle edginess. The Office is doing OK, partly because it has been pretty thoroughly Americanized, and partly because it is superbly cast.

  • You're fired!! :)

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