New Apprentice taps celebs By Tim Surette - TV.com July 17, 2007 at 05:19:00 PM | more stories by this author The Donald's reality show is back, and this time Trump will be firing, hiring celebrities. Fans of The Apprentice thought they had heard Donald Trump's last utterance of "You're fired!" when NBC left the show off its fall schedule last May, forcing Trump to claim he was done with the reality program. However, just one week ago, rumors were stirring that NBC and Donald Trump were back in business together, and the business-minded reality show would be back. "Tell Flavor Flav to clean out his desk!" The rumors turned out to be true, as NBC has announced that the show will be back...with a new twist. Instead of rat-race wannabe corporate button-ups competing for Trump's favor, celebrities will be battling one another. "We looked overseas and saw how phenomenally well the British version of The Apprentice did with the celebrity version," said NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios co-chairman Ben Silverman at the Television Critics Association press tour, currently under way in Los Angeles. "So we're thrilled to have Donald back, and we really believe in The Apprentice as a perennial NBC reality franchise. And with [the celebrity twist], we think we have a hook that's going to draw in the audience." The celebrities won't be getting a paycheck from Trump, though. The show will all be done for charity, though details on how that will work still have yet to be revealed. NBC is targeting a midseason run for The Apprentice, and the celebrity participants will be "announced at a later date." 原文網址 http://www.tv.com/the-apprentice/show/20528/story/9885.html?tag=story_list;title;0 -- http://blog.pixnet.net/ericroom --

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