The Apprentice: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Apprentice is an Irish reality television series, in which a group of 14 aspiring businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a job as "apprentice" to businessman Bill Cullen. Each week the candidates take part in a task set by Bill. Each team will have a Project Manager who managers that group for that task. The team that performs the best will win a reward and avoid the boardroom. The losing team will be summoned to the boardroom where their project manager will be forced to pick two people in their team tol join them in the boardroom where one of them will be fired.

Series details

• Title: The Apprentice
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2008-09-22
• Final broadcast date listed: 2011-12-19
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Virgin Media One
• Network country: Ireland
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 35504
• IMDb ID: tt1313542
• TVDB ID: 132641

Cast and credited roles

• Bill Cullen — Bill Cullen

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2008-09-22; final listed air date 2008-12-08; episode order: 12.
• Season 2: premiered 2009-09-21; final listed air date 2009-12-14; episode order: 13.
• Season 3: premiered 2010-09-20; final listed air date 2010-12-13; episode order: 13.
• Season 4: premiered 2011-10-03; final listed air date 2011-12-19; episode order: 12.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Apprentice on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.