The Apprentice Australia was an Australian reality television series which aired on the Nine Network. It was based on NBC's The Apprentice. It first aired on 28 September 2009 and last aired on 23 November 2009, and features Mark Bouris, the founder and chairman of Wizard Home Loans and Yellow Brick Road, as the chief executive officer (CEO). It is narrated by Andrew Daddo,[2] and the series' winner received a one-year employment contract worth $200,000 at a job managing Bouris' newest business venture, Yellow Brick Road.
The Apprentice Australia | |
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Genre | Reality |
Created by | Mark Burnett |
Starring | Mark Bouris (CEO) |
Narrated by |
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Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Producer | FremantleMedia Australia |
Running time | 60-minute episodes (90 min. premiere) |
Original release | |
Network | Nine Network |
Release | 28 September 23 November 2009 | –
Related | |
Candidate | Background | Original team | Age | Hometown | Result |
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Andrew "Morello" Morello | Auctioneer | Pinnacle | 23 | Melbourne | Hired by Bouris |
Heather Williams | Advertising Sales Consultant | Eventus | 31 | Maylands, Western Australia | Fired 2nd in Finale |
Gavin McInnes | Lawyer | Pinnacle | 33 | Brisbane, Queensland | Fired 1st in Finale |
Mary-Anne Lowe | Business Owner | Eventus | 30 | Melbourne | Fired in week 9 |
Sabrina Houssami | University Student and Miss World Australia 2006 | Eventus | 23 | Sydney | Fired in week 8 |
Samuel "Sam" Hooper | Law Student | Pinnacle | 19 | Adelaide, South Australia | Fired in week 7 |
Carmen Parnos | Bankrupt. Former Entrepreneur | Eventus | 44 | Melbourne | Fired in week 6 |
John van Yzerloo | Unemployed | Pinnacle | 44 | Romsey, Victoria | Fired in week 5 |
Blake Chandler | Customer Service Manager | Pinnacle | 28 | Central Coast, New South Wales | Fired in week 4 |
Amy Cato | Business Owner | Eventus | 25 | Adelaide, South Australia | Fired in week 3 |
Lynton Pipkorn | Marketing Consultant | Pinnacle | 30 | Melbourne | Fired in week 2 |
Jane Barclay | Unemployed | Eventus | 54 | Sydney | Fired in week 1 |
Candidate | Original team | Week 3 team | Week 4 team | Week 6 team | Week 7 team | Week 9 team | Final task team | Application result | Record as project manager |
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Andrew "Morello" Morello | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Eventus | Pinnacle | Hired by Bouris | 2–0 (win in weeks 1 & 8) |
Heather Williams | Eventus | Eventus | Eventus | Pinnacle | Eventus | Pinnacle | Eventus | Fired 2nd in Finale | 1–1 (win in week 6, loss in week 4) |
Gavin McInnes | Pinnacle | Eventus | Eventus | Eventus | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Fired 1st in Finale | 2–1 (win in weeks 3 & 9, loss in week 7) | |
Mary-Anne Lowe | Eventus | Eventus | Pinnacle | Eventus | Eventus | Eventus | Fired in week 9 | 1–2 (win in week 4, loss in weeks 8 & 9) | |
Sabrina Houssami | Eventus | Eventus | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Eventus | Fired in week 8 | 2–0 (win in weeks 2 & 7) | ||
Samuel "Sam" Hooper | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Eventus | Eventus | Pinnacle | Fired in week 7 | 1–0 (win in week 5) | ||
Carmen Parnos | Eventus | Eventus | Eventus | Eventus | Fired in week 6 | 0–2 (loss in weeks 1 & 6) | |||
John van Yzerloo | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Fired in week 5 | 0–1 (loss in week 5) | ||||
Blake Chandler | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | Eventus | Fired in week 4 | |||||
Amy Cato | Eventus | Pinnacle | Fired in week 3 | 0–1 (loss in week 3) | |||||
Lynton Pipkorn | Pinnacle | Fired in week 2 | 0–1 (loss in week 2) | ||||||
Jane Barclay | Eventus | Fired in week 1 |
Elimination table | |||||||||||||
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No. | Candidate | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
1 | Morello | WIN | IN | BR | IN | IN | IN | BR | WIN | BR | IN | HIRED | |
2 | Heather | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | WIN | IN | BR | IN | IN | FIRED | |
3 | Gavin | IN | IN | WIN | BR | IN | BR | LOSE | IN | WIN | FIRED | ||
4 | Mary-Anne | IN | IN | IN | WIN | BR | IN | IN | LOSE | FIRED | |||
5 | Sabrina | BR | WIN | IN | IN | BR | IN | WIN | FIRED | ||||
6 | Sam | IN | BR | BR | IN | WIN | IN | FIRED | |||||
7 | Carmen | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||
8 | John | IN | BR | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||
9 | Blake | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||
10 | Amy | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||
11 | Lynton | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||
12 | Jane | FIRED |
The premiere episode had 692,000 viewers nationally, rating third in its timeslot.[3] The second episode sank to fourth for the timeslot with 657,000 viewers nationally tuning in.[4] The third episode rated a better with 823,000 viewers and winning the 9.30 pm timeslot.[5] Viewer numbers remained steady for the fourth episode, with the same numbers as the previous week, 823,000.[6] The fifth episode managed 742,000 viewers, which was followed up by an increasing figures of 832,000 and 874,000 viewers for the sixth and seventh episodes respectively.
Episode | Original airdate | Five-city metropolitan figures | Viewers Total (in millions) | Rank | Ref | |||||
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Sydney | Melbourne | Brisbane | Adelaide | Perth | Night | Week | ||||
1 | 28 September 2009 | 223,000 | 263,000 | 87,000 | 60,000 | 53,000 | 0.686 | No. 25 | No. 76 | [7][8] |
30 September 2009[nb 1] | 272,000 | 372,000 | 146,000 | 87,000 | 76,000 | 0.953 | No. 10 | — | [7][nb 2] | |
2 | 5 October 2009 | — | 0.627 | — | ||||||
7 October 2009[nb 3] | 1.677 | |||||||||
3 | 12 October 2009 | 269,000 | 256,000 | 132,000 | 89,000 | 73,000 | 0.819 | No. 19 | No. 68 | [9][10] |
4 | 19 October 2009 | 266,000 | 274,000 | 123,000 | 80,000 | 79,000 | 0.634 | No. 16 | No. 65 | [11][12] |
5 | 26 October 2009 | 241,000 | 233,000 | 105,000 | 87,000 | 76,000 | 0.742 | No. 22 | No. 84 | [13][14] |
6 | 2 November 2009 | 258,000 | 281,000 | 116,000 | 106,000 | 71,000 | 0.832 | No. 16 | No. 66 | [15][16] |
7 | 9 November 2009 | 261,000 | 302,000 | 127,000 | 84,000 | 100,000 | 0.874 | No. 17 | — | [17][nb 2] |
8 | 16 November 2009 | 235,000 | 258,000 | 117,000 | 78,000 | 96,000 | 0.783 | No. 17 | No. 66 | [18][19] |
9 | 215,000 | 267,000 | 69,000 | 82,000 | 75,000 | 0.708 | No. 21 | No. 75 | [18][19] | |
10 | 23 November 2009 | 245,000 | 283,000 | 111,000 | 95,000 | 99,000 | 0.834 | No. 17 | — | [20][nb 2] |
Figures are adjusted from preliminary figures using data from the weekly rankings reports where possible. |
Notes
The Celebrity Apprentice version of the series began to air on the Nine Network on 24 October 2011. A second series aired in 2012 and the third in 2013. After a one year break, the series was renewed for a fourth series, which aired in 2015. The series will return for a fifth season in 2021 after a six year hiatus with new CEO, Alan Sugar.