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Is Prime Video rebooting The Apprentice?
Amazon’s Head of Unscripted and Documentary Television Jenn Levy remained rather coy while answering this mobility astatine Deadline’s Reality TV Summit connected Friday, opting only to corroborate that nan bid “is not successful progressive development” astatine nan moment.
Apprentice revival talk began acknowledgment to a Wall Street Journal report precocious Wednesday. Per nan report, executives astatine nan streamer person been toying pinch nan thought of bringing nan bid backmost pinch Donald Trump Jr. arsenic host, but it quickly became clear that these discussions were successful nan early stages aft Don Jr. said he learned astir it from nan press.
During a property convention Thursday, President Donald Trump weighed successful connected whether he’d for illustration to spot his boy revive nan title bid he hosted for 14 seasons.
“He’d beryllium astir apt good,” Trump said. “He’s sewage a small charisma going. You request a small charisma for that sucker.”
“Yeah, they told maine astir it, we’ll see,” nan elder Trump concluded astir a imaginable caller life for nan now-MGM TV-owned spot created successful 2004 by Mark Burnett.
While news of a new Apprentice seemed to drawback almost everyone extracurricular nan Rupert Murdoch-owned WSJ by surprise, sources adjacent to Amazon person cautioned astir reference excessively overmuch into immoderate return to nan boardroom immoderate clip soon. Levy’s nationalist comments Friday only reaffirmed what a spokesperson told Deadline earlier this week.
“Since our acquisition of MGM, we person had preliminary soul discussions astir what’s adjacent for The Apprentice as a property,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “The show is not successful progressive development, and immoderate reporting connected specifications of nan show aliases names of imaginable hosts would beryllium purely speculative.”
That said, conscionable because nan reboot isn’t presently successful progressive improvement doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Never opportunity never.
