The Apprentice (American TV series) season 6

Season 6 changes

• Candidates must earn the right to live in the provided Beverly Hills mansion by simply winning the weekly task. Otherwise, the candidates will live in "Tent City", a location across the hedge from the mansion's swimming pool.
• *Tent City will not have any access to electricity for common living tasks and will sleep in tents, outdoors.
• *Tent City does have access to two tents, private showers, fresh water, alcoholic drinks, and food.
• *Tent City also appears to have access to an indoor "business center" adjunct to the mansion, with computers and Internet service, though the use of this room has only been shown during one task.
• *Candidates appear to be able to communicate to each other over the hedge separating Tent City from the mansion's pool, based on footage from week five.
• *This season at the request of Trump is a battle between the "haves" and the "have nots".
• The candidates will be living next door to Trump's Los Angeles office mansion for this season.
• *The scenery and the elevation allows Trump to watch the teams in the top floor of his office mansion and observe the teams.
• *Trump, at his discretion, may also visit the teams while they are at the mansion to see some of the dynamics on the teams directly.
• The project manager from the winning team will continue to be the project manager for that team until the team loses.
• The project manager from the winning team will be allowed to attend and participate in the boardroom firings for the losing team.
• The final task was not between the final two candidates like in the previous five seasons. The final task involved the final four candidates instead. Stefani and James competed against Nicole and Frank, and neither team was fired during the episode. All four were invited back for the live season finale, where Frank and Nicole were ultimately fired first because they lost the final task. This was also different as four candidates had a chance to win on the final day, opposed to just two the first five seasons and all subsequent seasons.
• This season is the only season to feature eight men and ten women competing instead of the usual nine men and nine women.

  Candidates

Olympic candidates

Team picks

• Using feedback from the candidates, Donald Trump picked the first project managers for the first task.
• Heidi and Frank were selected and picked their respective teams using alternate selections, one at a time.

Weekly results

Episodes

Episode 1 – To Have and Have Not

• Airdate: January 7, 2007
• Prologue: The applicants were required to construct a tent as so they could determine how they worked along; this also served to determine which two candidates were to be the first project managers. During this period, Frank was so loud that Trump heard him from his own mansion and told him to keep it down, while Martin irked the others by standing on a rock and not doing any of the work. Heidi and Frank subsequently picked their respective team members using alternate selections, one at a time.
• Task scope: Each team was assigned a car wash to run for a day. The teams could use any method to try earning the most sales.
• Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump
• Kinetic project manager: Heidi
• Arrow project manager: Frank
• Winning team: Kinetic
• *Reasons for win: The team immediately got to work, using signs on cardboard boxes and arranging for a free lunch with every car wash. They also took advantage of the demographics of West Hollywood, hiring shirtless guys to hold the signs and to attract customers.
• *Reward: Dinner at Spago with Wolfgang Puck, Donald, Melania, and Ivanka.
• Losing team: Arrow
• *Reasons for loss: Frank ran off early with Tim to attempt to make signs, and then Aaron to carry out promotions, leaving the rest of the team short on manpower. The price point of $10 for a basic wash, set by Frank after a brief discussion at the start of the task, may have been too low, as the team only lost by less than $120. Martin was shown to not contribute as much as other members of the team.
• *Sent to boardroom: Frank, Martin, and Tim
• *Firing verdict:
• **Tim was told to go back to the losers' tent after Frank quickly conceded that he was not responsible for the loss.
• **Most of the team felt that Frank did not make some smart decisions but agreed he had the drive and the passion for the show.
• **Martin was found to be the weakest contributor by most of his team. When Heidi and Ivanka were asked as to who should be fired, both of them agreed to eliminate Martin.
• ***Ivanka was a heavy contributor to his decision to fire Martin, pointing out his inability to work well with others and her not seeing him ever being able to fit into a business like structure that the job would require in addition to a couple of unprofessional flaws Ivanka spotted during the first 5–15 minutes of the show. Trump agreed and proceeded to Fire Martin due to this.
• Fired: Martin Clarke – for not having a stronger fight or passion, having an unprofessional attitude towards Trump and his teammates, not working well with others, and for less contributions on this task. Trump determined that both Frank and Martin performed poorly and contributed to the loss with their fatal mistakes, but Trump stated that Martin would fit better within the fields of a professor or lawyer as opposed to a business executive for the Trump organization.
• Notes
• *The season premiere aired for 90 minutes.
• *Although the teams at the time the episode aired were identified by names of their inaugural project manager, the team names were identified throughout the opening credits.
• **Kinetic, at the time the episode aired, was called "Team Heidi."
• **Arrow, at the time the episode aired, was called "Team Frank."
• *"Team Frank" had to set up a second tent after their loss was announced.
• *After firing Martin, Trump remarked that this was one of his toughest decisions in the history of the show - while Frank was primarily responsible for the loss due to setting the car wash price arguably low, Trump noted that he had a certain "tremendous fire" that Martin lacked.
• *Nicole strained her voice while shouting out her team's promotional slogans, which was exacerbated by a throat infection she picked up during the night after the task, leaving her barely even able to speak in the boardroom, and resulting in her voice being rather hoarse for the rest of the season.