Had enough of The Don? Well too bad, you're getting more. NBC is letting Donald Trump take over its Sunday nights with the next season of his reality show The Apprentice.
Each episode will be boosted to two hours, says TV Week, and will help NBC save some money (by not having to produce something else, like something worth watching) in these penny-pinching times.
"Donald has always felt the boardrooms were too short, and I think he's right," producer Mark Burnett said. "Right now, there's really only about nine minutes of footage that we use and the boardroom [scenes] go on for hours sometimes. The problem has been trying to squeeze it all in. Every season we go through the struggle of cutting the show down."
However, according to one source, NBC only recently asked Burnett for double the time--a problem since the show had already wrapped filming. Burnett, on the other hand, says NBC has been toying with the idea for some time now and they're well prepared to fill two hours. If they do have trouble going long, they can always just add an hour of dramatic music and soap-opera-style zooms before Trump cans someone.
This year's version of the show will once-again be celeb-injected, with model Kathy Ireland, former Superman Dean Cain, rocker Gene Simmons, 90210's Jennie Garth, The View's Star Jones, and boxer Sugar Ray Leonard among those who will be competing against one another.
Two hours of The Apprentice? Is this a victory or your worst nightmare?
