The Apprentice New Zealand | |
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Genre | Reality |
Created by | Mark Burnett |
Starring | Terry Serepisos (CEO) |
Country of origin | New Zealand |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | RedFlame Media Glenn Sims, |
Running time | 60-minute episodes |
Release | |
Original network | TV2 |
Original release | 16 February – 11 May 2010 |
Chronology | |
Related shows | The Apprentice |
External links | |
Website |
The Apprentice New Zealand is a New Zealand reality television series that aired on TV2 16 February to 11 May 2010. It features Terry Serepisos,Wellington based multi-millionaire property developer, as the chief executive officer (CEO). The series' winner, Thomas Ben, received a $200,000 package consisting of a $100,000 salary, A BMW and accommodation. Thomas began work at Terry Serepisos' property development company Century City in July 2010.
There were fourteen candidates taking part in this season and initially they were separated into two teams based on gender. The women chose the name Athena (also used as the female team name in the eighth season of the U.S. show), while the men chose the name Number 8. In the first episode, there is a twist as Nicky (Athena) and Richard (Number 8) are revealed to be already in a relationship. In episode 4, the teams picked project managers for the task Nicky and Chris and then were told that they would swap and lead the other team. In the boardroom in episode 6 Richard was switched to team Athena due to his excellence in the task even though his team lost. In episode 9 Nicky and Linda who had starring roles in the previous task had to select one member from their own team without conferring to switch to the other team, Linda chose Karen and Nicky chose David. In Week 11 Catherine and Karen swapped teams because they had not worked with the other person.