• 'The Apprentice' to kick off nationwide casting tour on March 18 in New York

  March 17, 2004
  With its previously announced mail-in application deadline now past, NBC has announced that the network and Mark Burnett Productions are coming to a city near you to recruit candidates for the upcoming second season of The Apprentice.

• Average Joe: Adam Returns - Episode 1 summary

  March 17, 2004
  "They shall come back, come back again..," our episode summary for the premiere episode of NBC's Average Joe: Adam Returns, written by Estee, is now available.

• 'Average Joe: Adam Returns' premiere outperforms 'Hawaii', draws 10.7 million viewers

  March 17, 2004
  Who would have thought that the idea of watching a husky big toothed everyman search for love would prove more appealing to viewers than watching a beautiful raven haired bikini model and Miss USA runner-up do the same?

• Tenth 'Apprentice' episode draws 19.2 million viewers, closes Adults 18-49 gap with 'CSI'

  March 16, 2004
  The Apprentice's most controversial contestant might have been booted the previous week, but according to the final Nielsen ratings, NBC's new hit reality show remained strong as it narrowed the field to only six contestants by booting Philadelphia resident Heidi Bressler.

• Sugar Ray Leonard joins NBC's upcoming 'The Contender' series, first audition dates announced

  March 15, 2004
  NBC announced Saturday that five-time world champion fighter Sugar Ray Leonard has signed on to star in The Contender, the network's new upcoming unscripted series that will launch a competitive search for the next boxing superstar. Additionally the network also announced the program's first audition dates.
• 

  Ongoing 'Apprentice' catfight gets uglier as Omarosa makes unsupported racial slur allegation

  March 12, 2004
  The ongoing media tussle between former The Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth and her fellow former contestants rocketed up several notches in the past two days as Omarosa alleged to have been the victim of an on-camera racial slur by an "unnamed contestant" which she alluded to be Ereka Vetrini -- an allegation that NBC, the show's producer, Ereka, and even Donald Trump himself all quickly refuted.

• 'Apprentice' foursome turn down $1,000,000 'Playboy' offer, instead pose for 'FHM' -- for free

  March 12, 2004
  They might have been repeatedly accused of using their bodies to sell while competing on NBC's The Apprentice, but four of the program's female contestants are saying that they do draw the line somewhere -- and have reportedly rejected a $1,000,000 joint offer to pose nude for Playboy magazine while instead agreeing to do a scantily clad pictorial for young men's magazine FHM... for free.

• Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth hopes to cash in on 'Apprentice' appearance with clothing line and talk show

  March 11, 2004
  Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth might have been booted from last week's The Apprentice episode, but apparently all that's done is allow the NBC series' most controversial contestant an opportunity to begin heavily exploiting her fifteen minutes of show... with an eye toward extending it to be much more than that.

• The Apprentice - Episode 9 summary

  March 11, 2004
  "(You Ain't Nothing But) Whine, Whine, Whine," our episode summary for the ninth episode of NBC's The Apprentice, written by AyaK, is now available.

• NBC reveals the identities of Adam Mesh's 'Average Joe: Adam Returns' suitors

  March 11, 2004
  NBC has revealed the names and photos of the nineteen women who will be competing for the heart of original Average Joe series runner-up Adam Mesh in his upcoming Average Joe: Adam Returns series.

MORE NBC REALITY SHOWS NEWS