The Apprentice (British TV series) series 10

*The Apprentice*
The Apprentice
Series 10
	Promo group shot of Alan Sugar, Nick Hewer and Karren Brady standing before the candidates for series 10
Starring	Alan Sugar; Nick Hewer; Karren Brady;
No. of episodes	14
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	14 October –; 21 December 2014
Series chronology
	← Previous; Series 9 Next →; Series 11

The tenth series of British reality television series The Apprentice (UK) was broadcast in the UK on BBC One, from 14 October to 21 December 2014;^[1] due to live coverage in Summer of that year for both the FIFA World Cup and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the BBC postponed the series' broadcast until Autumn to avoid clashing with these.^[2] It is the last series to feature Nick Hewer as Alan Sugar's aide, who left the programme following the series finale, with the tenth series featuring a guest appearance from Ricky Martin, winner of the eighth series, as an interviewer for the Interviews Stage for this series only.

Production on the tenth series included two prominent tasks traditionally used in the show's format being specially designed towards celebrating The Apprentice's tenth year of broadcast. In addition, other tasks featured a more varied arrangement of challenges that included some being geared towards the technology industry. Alongside the standard twelve episodes, with the first two aired within a day of each other, the series featured two specials before its premiere – "Meet the Candidates", made available online only on 7 October; and "Ten Years of The Apprentice" on 13 October – and two specials aired alongside this series – "The Final Five" on 16 December; and "Why I Fired Them" on 18 December

Marking the programme's tenth series, production staff selected twenty candidates to take part, the highest number to be involved in any variation of The Apprentice globally, with Mark Wright becoming the overall winner. Excluding specials, the series averaged around 7.40 million viewers during its broadcast.

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^ Jefferies, Mark (29 October 2013). "The Apprentice: Next series pushed back until autumn 2014 to avoid clashing with World Cup 2014". Mirror. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

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[Jefferies-2] Jefferies, Mark (29 October 2013). "The Apprentice: Next series pushed back until autumn 2014 to avoid clashing with World Cup 2014". Mirror. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

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