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Once the candidates are selected, they are divided into teams and given a series of business-themed tasks – every series focuses on ten team-oriented tasks, with the exception of the seventh and eighth series where it was eleven. The number of candidates who appear in a series has varied over the show's history, though the general arrangement is that each series always consists of a balanced number of men and women when it begins.

Following this, between 20 and 30 applicants are chosen and given an assessment by a psychologist, receiving further checks by the production team and providing them with references, before the final line-up is selected from this group and filming can begin. A second round will usually be held in London for a small percentage of applicants, who divide into groups and are asked to do various exercises to test their business skills and to gauge how they work as a team. The show's initial stage, which is not filmed, focuses on open auditions and interviews held across the country this stage searches for the candidates for a series before filming of it begins, which often attracts thousands of applicants. After the first series of the British version proved to be a success, Sugar signed on for subsequent series. On 19 May, Alan Sugar agreed to present the twelve episodes of the programme that had been commissioned. The BBC made offers promising a potentially lucrative business opportunity to several business individuals, including Philip Green, Felix Dennis and Michael O'Leary, but each of their initial choices declined when approached. This left the BBC with the task of finding a business personality to front The Apprentice. Negotiations finished on the 1 April, when the BBC was announced as the new owner of the future programme after outbidding their rival. The company offered any British broadcaster the chance to secure the rights to the new programme, the most significant bids coming from the BBC and Channel 4.


In March 2004, following the success of the first season of NBC's The Apprentice, FremantleMedia saw the possibility for creating an international franchise, and announced its intentions to create a British version of the programme under the same name and format.
