The Apprentice
Reality competitionReal people competing under format rules.This show: 10/10
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The Apprentice Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | ||
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| S1 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.2 | |||
| S2 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.5 | ||||
| S3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 3.4 | |
| S4 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.5 | |||||
| S5 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.8 | ||||
| S6 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.2 | |||||
| S7 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 4.1 | ||||||
| S8 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.4 | ||||||||
| S9 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.2 | ||||||||
| S10 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | ||||||
| S11 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | |||||||
| S12 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.5 | |||||
| S13 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.2 | |||||||
| S14 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.5 | ||||||||||
| S15 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
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About
"Where ambition curdles into pure boardroom theater"
The Apprentice pits a group of ambitious businesspeople against each other in task-based challenges, competing for a coveted job offer from a wealthy tycoon. Contestants form teams, pitch ideas, sell products, and manage projects while navigating alliances and rivalries. Each episode builds to a boardroom showdown where someone is sent home. The tone is brash and competitive, driven by manufactured drama and blunt confrontations rather than nuance. It's fast, formulaic reality television built around workplace one-upmanship, more compelling as a spectacle of ego and strategy than as genuine insight into how business actually works.
Watch it for
the blunt, addictive boardroom confrontations that reward quick thinking and nerve.
Maybe skip if
you dislike manufactured reality-TV conflict and repetitive task-based competition formats.
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All Seasons
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Season 12004
3.62K164h 12m
The Apprentice 1 is the first season of The Apprentice, which aired on NBC in the winter and spring of 2004. It is currently available on DVD. It featured 16 candidates.
The first season was a ratings smash, ranking at #7 in the average weekly Nielsen Rankings, with an average viewership of 20.7 million viewers each week. The final episode of the season was seen by an estimated 28.05 million viewers and ranked as the #1 show of the week, beating out a new episode of CSI. It was the most popular new show of 2004.
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Season 22004
3.41K156h 7m
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Season 32005
3.21K184h 24m
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Season 42005
3.3750143h 28m
The Apprentice 4 is the fourth season of The Apprentice, with Donald Trump as the executive producer and host. The show was aired on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. on NBC and started September 22, 2005.
This was the first season of the show not to place in the Top 20 Nielsen Ratings; it averaged #38 with 11.01 million viewers.
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Season 52006
3.8751153h 52m
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Season 62007
4.1712141h 24m
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Season 72008
4.41K134h
The Celebrity Apprentice is the seventh installment of the reality game show, Celebrity Apprentice. This season features celebrity candidates vying for the title of Donald Trump's, "Best Business Brain," as a way to revitalize the series, with the winner donating their proceeds to charity. The series was designed after Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, a charity special of the British Apprentice series. This installment marks the series' return to New York after spending the previous season in Los Angeles and features abstract paintings by Seattle-based artist Maeve Harris. The series premiered on NBC on January 3, 2008 at 9:00PM.
This is the first season where the candidates did not reside in a communal penthouse of Trump Tower which was more as a meeting vicinity and also the boardroom. The celebrities lived in Trump International Hotel and Tower. There are also no traditionally given rewards to the winning team apart from the winning project manager receiving an amount of $20,000 along with available proceeds from the tasks to be donated to his or her favorite charity. Nevertheless, the firing rule remained. America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan was the winner, beating country music singer Trace Adkins in the finals. Ironically, Morgan was the only celebrity fired during the original British celebrity edition of the show.
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Season 82009
4.5654117h
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Season 92010
4.463511
The Celebrity Apprentice 3 is the ninth installment of the reality game show, Celebrity Apprentice. On April 29, 2009, NBC officially announced the renewal of Celebrity Apprentice for Spring 2010. The show premiered on Sunday, March 14, 2010. The two-hour season finale was on Sunday, May 23, 2010, from 9-11 p.m., ET/PT and the winner was Poison lead singer and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels. The Celebrity Apprentice is auctioning off items to help benefit the Hollyrod Foundation and the American Diabetes Association. Auction items include photos taken by Bret Michaels, clothing, posters, and other rare items signed by the cast. Michaels also returned for All-Star Celebrity Apprentice. Michaels was the only previous winner to return and was ironically fired first, coming in 14th being unable to raise any money.
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Season 102010
4.1570132h 8m
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Season 112011
4.87431214h 52m
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Season 122012
4.6830147h 10m
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Season 132013
4.6716127h 49m
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Season 142015
4.652591h 26m
The Celebrity Apprentice 7 is the seventh installment of the reality game show, Celebrity Apprentice. On July 23, 2013, NBC announced that the show will film the following spring and would be returning for a seventh season in 2014.
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Season 152017
4.282872h 14m
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Donald Trump Self, Self - Host
Kendra Todd Self, Self - The Apprentice
Tana Goertz Self
Ivanka Trump Self - Boardroom Advisor, Self
George Ross Self, Self - Boardroom Advisor, Self - Audience Member
Robin Himmler Self
Donald Trump Jr. Self - Boardroom Advisor, Self
Amanda Miller Self - Boardroom Receptionist
Carolyn Kepcher Self - Boardroom Advisor
Omarosa Manigault Newman Self, Self - Contestant, Self - Reality Star
Crew
Mark Burnett
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