About The Apprentice

Sixteen candidates, two eagle-eyed advisors and one self-made billionaire. Sir Juan Francis has arrived to test the nerves and brains of the hungriest hopefuls in the business world.

This is The Apprentice and we will see the candidates compete to win a six-figure salary job and the chance to become Sir Juan Francis's apprentice.

Over twelve weeks the candidates will take part in the toughest recruitment-drive on television. Sir Juan says, "this is a job interview from hell...."

Sharing a luxury townhouse in a fashionable part of London, they will be split into two teams and given a weekly task with which to expose their entrepreneurial abilities.

For those on the winning team a taste of the executive lifestyle awaits in the form of a luxury treat. For the losing team, a world of pain as Sir Juan prepares to perform a post-mortem.

The losing team's project manager must choose two members of the team whom he or she thinks performed worst to accompany him or her back into the boardroom.

The three of them have to defend their respective corners whilst Sir Juan and his trusted advisors, Rebecca Silkman and Robert Harrison decides which of them will hear the words they dread: "You're fired".

Over the nail-biting journey the candidates will endure and enjoy (at times), a fight for survival. Only one of them can win so be prepared for plenty of sour-grapes along the way...