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Synopsis: The Apprentice is a 15-episode unscripted drama in
which 16 candidates from all walks of life, including both Ivy League
MBA graduates and street entrepreneurs with no college education, will
endure rigorous tasks each week while living together in a hip Manhattan
loft apartment. The tasks will test their intelligence, chutzpah and
street-smarts. They will face the challenges of living in close quarters
and must complete sometimes humorous, but always difficult, job assignments
and will be forced to think outside the box in order to outshine each
other to get to the top.
Upon their arrival in New York City (some for the very first time),
the 16 candidates will be rushed over to Trump Tower to meet with Donald
Trump, the centerpiece and driving force of this series. After splitting
the group into two teams of eight, Trump then issues the first task.
Teams will be given time constraints for each task and they will be
observed by either Trump himself or members of his staff at every moment
along the way. At the conclusion of each task, the winning team will
be granted a lavish reward, but the losing team must report immediately
to Trump's boardroom where one of them will be fired.
Tasks each week will incorporate various aspects of business: sales,
marketing, promotions, charities, real estate deals, finance, advertising
pitches and facilities management. Most of them will be assignments
that executives face in their daily lives. The twist is that these teams
are thrown out to the wolves of the New York business world with only
a few days to complete incredibly difficult tasks, many of which have
hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake.
This is the ultimate corporate jungle where staying alive means using
both street smarts and book smarts. The winner of the competition, the
true "apprentice" will be granted the dream job of a lifetime
with The Trump Organization and a salary of $250,000.
The Contestants:
Production Credits:
The Apprentice is produced by Mark Burnett Productions in association
with Trump Productions LLC. Mark Burnett and Donald Trump are executive
producers. Burnett is represented by Conrad Riggs who will also serve
as a producer on the project.
The Episodes:
1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5
1-6
1-7
1-8
1-9 --03/04/2004
1-10 --03/11/2004
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