How To Save Celebrity Apprentice

Let's all get real for a second.  Of the people who read this blog, a fair number are going to say they don't watch the Celebrity Apprentice, or didn't realize it was still on tv.  I get that, but it's time we did something about it.
Mr. Trump - I'm talking to you!
This show was one of my favorites, but the past few seasons have been horrible.  All they've amounted to is a weekly yell-fest.  I started watching because I wanted to see smart people doing smart things.  This season, especially, all I've been seeing is 2 hours of editing to show all of the screw ups or preludes to the board room. There is nothing ingenious about this.  After what I saw this weekend, I made the comment that this show has officially jumped the shark.  I want it to be about the smartest person and not the person who screams the loudest or who drops the most F-bombs.

My Plan To Save Celebrity Apprentice

1. Make something fresh out of the show.

     A.  Start the season with 4 teams instead of 2 and have the winning team get immunity while the other 3 battle it out.  Simple logic here, when 2 teams do a great job, #2 shouldn't always lose.  Plus, there are usually plenty of train wrecks that can be eliminated on smaller teams, rather than hiding on larger teams.  The show is 2 hours long, so there is plenty of time for this.  The current format drags on forever with almost nothing that is compelling to watch.

     B.  Have a team of regular joes against a team of celebrities.  The tasks could not be about money, but it would be really interesting to see regular people trying to out-hustle celebrities.  Later on in the season, you could mix the teams to include both together.

     C.  Switch up the teams after each task to eliminate the gang mentality that ultimately takes over the show each season.  It's as predictable as the ball dropping on New Years.  If someone doesn't like another person, they rally up all of their friends to try to gang up and bring down that person in the board room.  Mr. Trump reacts by exclaiming that no one likes that person.  That's because the well has been poisoned, so to speak.  Switch up the teams so that you're playing with a fresh set of partners each week.  This avoids the "Salem Witch Trial" mentality where they pick on someone and eventually gang up on them until Mr. Trump has no choice but to fire them.

     D.  Make a secret camera that Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric, etc. can look in on the teams with, rather than walking into see each team in person.  Right now, it's so predictable.  When the person responsible for being Mr. Trump's eyes and ears on a task come in, people run to them and suck up.  Put a secret camera in their war rooms so that the teams can be observed as they really are performing and not some artificial suck up moment.

2. Invite people who actually want to be on the show.

This isn't entirely fair, because many people on the show do take advantage of the opportunity.  It is disgusting to me the amount of celebrities that have simply given up or quit when they can't take it any longer.  Find people who really want to be in it for the long haul.  If they don't know that they are going to be in a bickering environment, then they haven't been watching reality tv for the past 10 years.  When they are called on the carpet in the board room, they should not want to "fall on the sword" or give up.  What is that all about?  Bring the celebrities that don't have to leave every time you turn around.  I heard that Teresa Giudice goes home after each show to care for her family.  She is there for every minute of every task though.  That is what is should be about.  

3.  Improve the Editing

All we see after the show is edited are preludes to the board room.  Show more of the creative portion of the task, or how it is executed.  Currently, it seems like the flaws are the main parts that are edited in, thus making the board room all the more predictable.  Why not leave some suspense by showing a more well rounded version of the task so that the board room is not so predictable.  I remember when I never knew what was going to come out of people's mouths.  Now, I can often speak for them because of the crappy editing job.  I don't need to see Aubrey crying to Don Jr. or Ivanka or whoever is looking in on their tasks.  Save that mess for the board room.

4.  More Mr. Trump

During the first few seasons, there would be clips of Mr. Trump passing along some advice about a topic that the show seemed to center around.  I found this interesting.  No matter how many celebrities you have on the show, the biggest celebrity is always Mr. Trump.  I loved the rewards that the winning teams received, also.  Many times, the rewards were dinner with the Trumps, or going to do something really exciting.  I would think, even the celebrities would work harder if they received certain rewards.