The Apprentice 1 News
- January 22, 2004
What a difference a week, and one show, can make. After watching the third night of FOX's American Idol third season premiere destroy NBC's previously dominant The Apprentice series in the ratings, NBC immediately concluded that the only action to take when facing an unstoppable force is to quickly get out of the way -- and moved Apprentice off to Thursdays at 9 PM ET/PT (via CBS' CSI) for the duration of its fifteen episode run. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- January 22, 2004
So much for those reality show ratings records that the second episode of NBC's The Apprentice set last week.
- January 20, 2004
"Swingers and Sleepers," our episode summary for the second episode of NBC's The Apprentice, written by Bebo, is now available.
- January 17, 2004
It's official -- Survivor producer Mark Burnett and NBC appear to have a new breakout smash hit reality television show on their hands as the second episode of The Apprentice set several "all-time" reality programming ratings records.
- January 17, 2004
"Trumped Again," our episode summary for the premiere episode of NBC's The Apprentice, written by AyaK, is now available.
- January 16, 2004
Never let there be any doubt that NBC, the broadcast kings of "repurposing," know how to milk a good thing for all they can.
- January 12, 2004
NBC has announced that due to the incredible ratings that The Apprentice premiere drew last Thursday when airing after Friends, the second episode of the hit reality show will now air Thursday, January 15 (8:30-9:30 PM ET) followed by “Will & Grace” at 9:30 PM.
- January 9, 2004
It turns out Kristi Frank, one of the contestants of NBC's hit new The Apprentice reality show, has a more interesting past than NBC has been letting on. According to Friday's Inside Edition entertainment news show broadcast, Frank also has a soft-core pornography past.
- January 9, 2004
NBC's special Thursday premiere of the new The Apprentice reality series scored the highest adult 18-49 rating for any preview or premiere of any new television series in a year.
- January 9, 2004
NBC has announced that it will air a special encore broadcast of the premiere episode of its new hit The Apprentice series on Saturday, January 10 at 9 PM ET.