am i the only one watching?

it seems that the apprentice: martha stewart has failed to to make the TV-viewing public watch the donald trump-produced show. it's on its 4th (or 5th?) episode and yet, the ratings are still not substantial. in fact, reports say that the premiere of this show posted the lowest ever rating for the apprentice franchise. ouch. to make matters worse, the donald now says that martha's show is dragging his own ratings down. double ouch.

come on, mr. trump. blaming good ol' martha for your miseries?

anyway, despite the low ratings of martha's apprentice, i still am hooked. why oh why? i have no idea. maybe i am curious about martha post-prison, and about the projects she would make these constestants do.

since i had stuff to do last wednesday, i had the episode taped. a revamp had to be done because one of the teams has been on a losing streak and they have ben decimated. for tonight, they were tasked to make a new flavor for wish-bone, a brand of salad-dressing.

bottomline: martha fired one of my favorites - jennifer, a DA from the OC over jim, a graphic artist who has proven in the past weeks that he is a pain in the ass.

what i like about martha's version is that she herself "breaks" the rules when she deems fit. normally, the project manager of the losing team brings in two of the team's weakest performers. in one episode, martha felt that the person she wanted to fire (the cause of the team's loss) was not in the three people who came back so she asked her secretary to ask the "safe" contestants to come back. in the last one, she felt that the choice on who to fire was on two contestants only: jim and jennifer. and she fired jennifer. damn. makes me not wanna watch until jim is still there.

hahaha. affected!