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NBC's 'Apprentice 2' to premiere September 9, Bill Rancic to guest star... and more spoiler tips roll in
July 18, 2004
Looking to get a jump on the fall television season by rolling out its schedule in the weeks immediately following the conclusion of its August Summer Olympics coverage, NBC has announced that The Apprentice 2, the sequel to its hit reality competition series starring Donald Trump, will premiere Thursday, September 9.
NBC announces nationwide casting tour for 'The Apprentice 3'
July 6, 2004
NBC and Mark Burnett Productions have announced a nationwide casting tour to recruit candidates for this winter's upcoming The Apprentice 3. Once again slated to feature Donald Trump, the show will premiere in Winter 2005, following the Fall 2004 broadcast of The Apprentice 2.
'Apprentice' winner Bill Rancic to write book about business success
June 11, 2004
Before you can write a book about business success, don't you first have to succeed at business? Apparently not.
NBC's 'The Apprentice' nominated for "Program of the Year" by television critics
June 4, 2004
The Hollywood Reporter reports that the Television Critics Association has nominated NBC's reality-competition hit The Apprentice as one of the five finalists for its 2004 "Program of the Year" award. The other four finalists are Fox's Arrested Development and three cable shows: HBO's The Sopranos and Angels in America and Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (the only repeat nominee from 2003).
'Apprentice' runner-up Kwame Jackson axed as 'MIss Universe' judge
June 1, 2004
Maybe Kwame Jackson, the Harvard Business School graduate who was runner-up on NBC's The Apprentice, just isn't meant to work for Donald Trump. First, Kwame lost out to Bill Rancic in the "hiring" on the finale of the show. Then The Donald hired Kwame as a "temp" -- to be a judge at the 2004 Miss Universe beauty pageant, which Trump sponsors and co-owns along with NBC. But, before the pageant even took place, Kwame was once again out of work.
'Apprentice' Bill Rancic no longer dating 'Bachelor 3' finalist Jen Schefft, now seeing Amy Henry
May 31, 2004
The big cross-network romance of Apprentice and Bachelor reality stars is over... only to have been apparently replaced by some Apprentice intra-show romance.
'Apprentice 2' continues NYC filming... and challenge details continue to leak
May 24, 2004
Filming a reality-TV show -- especially a hit like The Apprentice 2 -- in the media capital of the world, New York City, has led to an unprecedented amount of information becoming public during filming ... at least, unprecedented for a Mark Burnett show. In particular, a product placement (a specialty of executive producer Burnett), created a bizarre scene in just the third challenge of the show.
NBC's 'The Apprentice 2' begins filming in NYC... and spoilers begin leaking
May 13, 2004
It looks like NBC and Mark Burnett are discovering that it's a little more difficult to keep the secrets of a smash-hit reality show under wraps when you're filming on the island of Manhattan as opposed to a remote island halfway around the world.
'Apprentice' finalist Nick Warnock denies accepting Oakland Raiders position
May 12, 2004
Someone throw a flag at the Oakland Raiders for a false start -- in a statement released on Tuesday, the NFL team acknowledged that Raiders CEO Amy Trask had been "premature" in previously announcing that former The Apprentice contestant Nick Warnock had been hired by the team as a luxury suite salesperson.
NFL's Oakland Raiders hire 'Apprentice' loser Nick Warnock
May 8, 2004
Looks like finalists Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson weren't the only contestants on NBC's The Apprentice to hear the words, "you're hired" after the show.