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Rhiannon12866

(205,161 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:57 PM Oct 2020

NBC Cancels Reboot of "The Apprentice" After One Episode

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In one of the more embarrassing television fiascos in recent memory, NBC has announced that it will cancel its reboot of “The Apprentice” after only one episode.

The reboot, which attempted to revive the flagging career of its star, was widely panned by critics and audience members, who seemed baffled by the network’s decision to air it in the first place.

Even more puzzling, the producers of the “Apprentice” reboot tinkered with the original’s winning format, transforming its star from a successful, nearly omniscient business mogul to a hapless incompetent beset by failure.

While a press release from NBC indicated that the network would be scheduling “no further episodes” of the reboot, a permanent cancellation could come on November 3rd, insiders say.


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nbc-cancels-reboot-of-the-apprentice-after-one-episode



Photograph by Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty

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NBC Cancels Reboot of "The Apprentice" After One Episode (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2020 OP
Borowitz! FakeNoose Oct 2020 #1
Yup! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2020 #2
Man that host has really let himself go! Initech Oct 2020 #3
I wish I wrote that! Dem2theMax Oct 2020 #4
He knows how to hit a Home Run. True Blue American Oct 2020 #5
chuckle. riversedge Oct 2020 #6
Took me a minute Karma13612 Oct 2020 #7
proud to say i never watched any of the original Apprentice... samnsara Oct 2020 #8
I never saw it, either - never even knew it existed Rhiannon12866 Oct 2020 #9

Rhiannon12866

(205,161 posts)
9. I never saw it, either - never even knew it existed
Sat Oct 17, 2020, 08:22 AM
Oct 2020

My first sight of Trump - though I vaguely knew he existed - was as a guest on with David Letterman. I almost changed the channel since he appeared to be kind of a jerk - but it turned out that Dave, who always claimed to know nothing about politics, put him in his place. He brought some ties with him that he was selling - and Dave turned them over to reveal they were made in China. And Trump was all bent out of shape about the proposed "mosque at Ground Zero," if you remember that controversy. And Dave put him in his place over that bit of nasty bigotry as well...

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