Tycoon 9PM Today....

All of the ideas were an absolute load of nonsense, and furthermore none of the contestants appeared to have any business skills either.

Why Peter was so impressed with the two women with the 'Girlie Garden' stuff, well...I shake my head in dismay...and the guy with the helicopters???

Perhaps I should have had a go with my own invention/business.

Pilfo
 
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I've just watched it and wasn't very impressed. I enjoy Dragon's Den and I usually like PJ - I like his no-nonsense, serious style. But I think Tycoon isn't going to do much for his credibility now, he came across as bolshy and just seemed to breeze in and out giving out orders and getting in a strop when something wasn't done on the day it should have been. That bit where he ordered someone out into the street to tell them off and then strutted off to his waiting car was a laugh :rolleyes:

The programme didn't seem to have much of a format - what was all that 'meet me on the pier in 5 mins' stuff? It was all a bit mixed up and you never really got a feel for each person. As for the ideas - were they really the best out of all those that applied? Surely even some that get rejected on Dragon's Den are better.

Not sure why he liked the gardening thing the best either. I love gardening but I certainly wouldn't dress up to do it - it's a mucky place my garden so I wear the oldest clothes I've got. Why would I need a pocket for my lipgloss? Do they really think women will buy these items? It's just a gimmick surely.

Can't think of one idea I liked really - maybe the hair extensions but as someone else said I'm sure I could buy some on the market if I really felt the urge for long hair :cool:

I'd give it another week but can't see me lasting the whole series. It reminds me of something else I watched not that long ago very similar. Can't remember what it was called but it had some guys with an online diet thing, and two girls with some kind of beauty products - one from Ireland who had a little kid but kept having childcare problems. It was just the same kind of programme, not very original.
 
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Personally while watching the only person who looked at all like a business minded person was the helicopter dude, and if he can get a high quality product that will sell for £45 i would probably even buy one.

But as someone said, if it was the one on his desk, they already sell those at firebox.com.
 
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Malcolm Cooper

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Until I read this thread I thought it might be just me that found this programme unmissable for all the wrong reasons.

We all know that The Apprentice is "making telly" rather than a serious business programme but at least it's done well and Alan Sugar has fantastic charisma.

To say that Tycoon is a cheap rip off is generous in my opinion. Tycoon looked to me to be just a very cynical vehicle to make someone who is very uncomfortable on camera into a big celebrity.

Compare Sugar's new'ish Rolls Royce Phantom with Jone's £20k'ish second hand Bentley and that about sums up the production values.

What sticks in my mind was his comment to Steve Wright on Radio 2. "I've visualised myself picking up a BAFTA"
You're not gonna get one for this load of tosh matey!

Alan Sugar is probably still laughing!

As for the business ideas it's all been said here earlier. Nothing protectable and sustainable amongst any of it. Peter Jones should stick to Dragon's Den, he does OK on there but now he's out of his depth.
 
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It was entertaining but I find it very hard to believe that these were the best out of everyone that applied, the ideas were very poor! (but then again I didnt think the applicants of the apprentice were some of the best business brains in the UK)

I think Peter could have done with some sort of sidekick, he just hasnt got the right personality to present the whole thing. Alan Sugar has Nick and Margaret to provide a few one liners and set him up for some funnies and cutting remarks, (and give him a leg up into that chair which is clearly too big for him ;) )
 
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2 WEEKS to come up with a flamin name for an alco pop!!!?? what world is she on, didnt do much else either did she?
Anyway, thought Tycoon was gonna be a factual fast paced info loaded series with some real genius ideas and businesses with determination and prescence to make a ton of cash, not a bunch of limp, bored procrastinators.
Anyone see Syed Ahmed - Hot Air on sky one after? that was just as useless....
 
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Business Angel

These reality business shows are just that - shows! I see 30 business plans a week looking for funding and even most of those on Dragon's Den (let alone this show) wouldn't get past my initial filtering - although 3 of the ones that have been offered funding have been my clients.

All good fun TV all the same!

John
 
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Well i thought tom did better managing to get access to the latest pictures etc would have been great plus a free celeb gossip magazine would have gotten thousands of readers, yet he failed to mention this partnership and he blew it with paying someone else to make the mag.

Hair woman is useless.
 
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asonda

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Hmm....

The program itself, as a concept, is ok, the scenes of the program however are very apprentice-esqe I.E the car scene with his Bentley etc...

So on that front, It copys some of the Apprentices, Visual Format. That point however is where it ends.

I'm not sure the program has really progressed. Tom has gone, fantastic that boy did not know what day it was let alone how on earth he should manage money. We didn't see if he actually accepted the offer made for the pictures, was it right that he'd give away half of his business for the privalidge? but...nevermind, he's gone!

Hair Works.......She was a bit silly on the phone, then again, she's new to all this, a mistake, which is why I think PJ saved her on the Pier.

The drink, V something or other, I'm not sure she's right to be honest, she reminds me of the woman that was on last years apprentice, the one who used to work for rover/mg before the collapse...basically...just no!

The problem is, the program doesn't fit what we all thought, and were told it was going to be...there aren't any unique ideas!

I have a carrier bag dispenser on my back door for god sakes! You can buy them, and most OAPs make those sort of things at their afternoon clubs they go to! (I only use it to save bags for my doggy)

Nothings NEW, nothings UNIQUE, and we are definately not seeing any NEW Tycoons, the only person worthy of that title, is PJ himself. I think 4 of the people, without HIS targets, wouldn't get anywhere.
 
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asonda

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But surely, there are plenty of people out there, with sound Ideas....

Look at some of the contestants on Dragons Den, Some of them, come in and wow all of the Dragons, Including Mr.Jones himself. So there is talent out there.

If there was a nation wide search for the next 'Tycoon' surely somethings gone terribly wrong!
 
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Personally i think my idea would have been much better for tycoon, shame i didnt know about it plus im too lazy to go down to birmingham

Bet you are glad you didn't now.

Who in there right mind would want to appear on this moronic bull ****? It's made for TV crap, there is nothing there people move on and FFS let it die!!!! Please no more threads on this crap.
 
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I missed it, and can't seem to rewatch the episode on Tycoon.com (which must have cost a fortune to have purchased the domain name for). All the other video clips work, just not the episodes. I only want to see it for the downfall of Tom. Curses.
 
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What is it with that vodka woman who keeps crying all the time... at the same time as trying to convince all that she's 'so strong'??

Unbelivably bad ideas and contestants.

Great viewing, if only for me to shout at the TV and do my 'I know better that Peter Duncan speech' :cool:

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