• NBC announces 'Apprentice 3' finale to air May 19, Trump's "rehiring" of Bill Rancic

  April 13, 2005
  Reacting to criticism to the extremely padded 3-hour finale of The Apprentice 2, NBC announced Tuesday that the finale for The Apprentice 3 would be scaled back to one hour. Airing Thursday, May 19 in the show's regular 9PM ET/PT time slot, the The Apprentice 3 broadcast will be followed by the season finale of ER.

• Will Martha Stewart's 'The Apprentice' edition air as the franchise's next installment?

  April 11, 2005
  Martha Stewart's "battle of the anklet" may have revealed a major shift in strategy by NBC with regard to its The Apprentice reality show franchise. Although NBC refuses to confirm its Fall 2005 schedule at this point, it appears that the Martha Stewart version of the show may be the only one to air in the fall of 2005, with the next edition of the Donald Trump version delayed until Spring 2006.
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  'Apprentice 3' hothead Chris Shelton arrested for disorderly conduct

  April 11, 2005
  The Apprentice master Donald Trump may have convinced Apprentice 3 contestant Chris Shelton to attempt to quit chewing tobacco, but clearly he was to unable to help the 22-year-old real estate investor resolve his anger management issues.
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  Angie Harper becomes the eleventh 'Apprentice 3' contestant to be fired

  April 8, 2005
  The Apprentice 3's Team Networth lost its sixth straight task during last night's NBC broadcast of the show's eleventh episode, making Angie Harper, a 41-year-old gym franchise owner from Lake Balboa, California, the latest Apprentice candidate to be fired.

• Report: BET planning 'Apprentice'-like reality series with Damon Dash

  April 4, 2005
  BET is developing the first original series in its 25-year history, The Hollywood Reporter said Monday.
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  Stephanie Myers becomes the tenth 'Apprentice 3' contestant to be fired

  April 1, 2005
  Despite fresh faces and new team members, The Apprentice's Networth team lost its fifth consecutive task on Thursday evening's NBC broadcast of the show's tenth episode. As a result, yet another its losing project managers was fired, in this case Stephanie Myers, the 29-year-old supply chain consultant from San Diego, California.

• Survey: 'Desperate Housewives' may be out of touch

  March 13, 2005
  The highly rated U.S. ABC television show, "Desperate Housewives" may be out of touch with America, a survey suggests.

• John Gafford negotiates self into firing on eighth episode of 'The Appentice 3'

  March 11, 2005
  The teams might have been shaken up ahead of time, but the "street-smart" NetWorth team still couldn't stop its three-challenge losing streak, leading to the dismissal of Florida entrepreneur John Gafford in the eighth episode of NBC's The Apprentice 3. Nine candidates have now been eliminated (including one that "quit"), leaving nine still striving for future employment by Donald Trump.
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  Audrey Evans becomes the seventh ‘The Apprentice 3’ contestant to be fired

  March 4, 2005
  For the second week in a row The Apprentice's high school-educated Networth team failed to execute on its assigned task -- and in what has been a very common occurrence, its losing project manager, Audrey Evans, later found herself being fired from The Apprentice 3.
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  Tara Dowdell becomes the sixth 'Apprentice 3' contestant to be fired

  February 25, 2005
  In a task that seemed tailor-made for The Apprentice 3's street smart Networth team, project manager Tara Dowdell's insistence at accomplishing her own goals rather than those of the client cost her team the victory -- and herself a shot at becoming the next apprentice.

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