Worth noting Thursday saw the screening of one of two QI episodes which were filmed without a studio audience.
It went surprisingly well. The lack of audience didn't make too big a difference.
I'm intrigued that it's for only two episodes, then Sandi said it would be back to normal.
They taped the shows out of order but in transmission order it is placed differently. Two episodes at the end of the recording block were taped without an audience, the rest had an audience before lockdown. Scheduling is weird.
The Apprentice isn't too surprising as that needs a lot of lead time to be ready for this year.
It's not 'lead time', it's not a sofa!
I've long been a massive fan of The Apprentice but the last couple of years I've been a bit meh about it. Quite glad of a break and it will be good to see some old clips/episodes as it never gets a repeat. One channel, possibly a UKTV one showed an early series but that's it
Dave used to show it but IIRc in the small hours of the mornings or heavily butchered at 10am during the day. I've not seen it repeated on TV since.
The Apprentice isn't too surprising as that needs a lot of lead time to be ready for this year.
It's not 'lead time', it's not a sofa!
I've long been a massive fan of The Apprentice but the last couple of years I've been a bit meh about it. Quite glad of a break and it will be good to see some old clips/episodes as it never gets a repeat. One channel, possibly a UKTV one showed an early series but that's it
Dave used to show it but IIRc in the small hours of the mornings or heavily butchered at 10am during the day. I've not seen it repeated on TV since.
You have to remember as a commercial subsidiary - UKTV channels always tend to edit one hour BBC shows, to ensure they can fit around 15 minutes of commercials and promos into a one hour format. Top Gear was always butchered by this method for years, as were so many great BBC documentaries on Yesterday channel. It seems dramas and sitcoms are the only genres not hacked.
I seem to recall The Apprentice got a repeat somewhere on TV (not Dave), but I can't recall where I saw this (I'm not referring to the slightly delayed catch-up airings that in the last series went out at some late hour a day or two after the Wednesday showing - those used to be on BBC Two at a more reasonable hour anyway).
Indeed a poke through Genome suggests BBC Three did repeat the second series about three days after BBC Two (who would later repeat it themselves on the Tuesday before the next episode the following day) so I'm wondering if its one of these airings I saw..?
Speaking of The Apprentice, I know this is slightly off-topic, but I actually applied for the next series, actually! It came after two candidates from the last series were only 19 at the time, so I decided to apply. When I got the invite, my parents felt I wasn't ready yet, so I decided, upon learning the shady truths of reality TV, to bail out. For the record, my business plan would have been a film production company.
Good question. My film production company's USP would have - or probably will - be focused on scripted film and television projects in varied age groups (live-action and animated), including those based on screenplays I'm planning on writing. To demonstrate my ambition, I wrote a screenplay for an animated feature which I'm trying to pitch to pass that time, which I recently finished after six months and over 200 pages. As an added bonus, Lord Sugar would have served as an executive producer on my film/TV projects.
