I Have just finished watching Karen get fired from Episode 3 of series 2 and will not be watching the program again.

It beggars belief how the BBC have allowed the program to slip into the "AMS show".

The totally unmeritocratic way that Karen was fired can lead one only to believe that the emotionally unbalanced Jo has been allowed to remain for big-brother "entertainment" value only.

Do we REALLY believe that AMS may one day employ Jo to flog his SKY set top boxes? I think not. My message to the BBC is maintain the standard of the channel and replace AMS with Sir Gerry Robinson and stop trying to appeal to big-brother viewers.

Welcome Billy!

my boss and me were just discussing this today! At the end of the day Sir Al is a moneymaker, BBC are paying him money, he wants the show to be a success so he can make more money off it. People like Jo make good (albeit carcrash) tv viewing. People like Karen don't. Ultimately Sir Alan goes with what makes good tv ... the man is nobody's fool. He knows at the end of the day he's gonna choose someone like Paul or possibly Sayeed (who I like more with each episode), a young aggressive man who Sir Alan can relive his youth through.

Have to say that I will be watching next week though ... cos I love every bloody second of it!

I liked Karen from the start, I'm glad she didn't play to the tv cameras or to Sir Alan's idea of what she should be. She can hold her head high ... she's too good for that kind of nonsense anyway!

I think you make a good point there, Billy. Although I must admit none of them have struck me as particularly bright or go getting. I mean, loads of people must've applied for this programme and just look at the ones they've ended up with.

I also think that Sir Alan's reasoning when deciding to keep Jo in, 'She's a nutter and so am I', was a bit skewed.

Agreed. WHat you have to remember is that this is a TV show first, just like X factor for example. The success lies in the fact that it is perceived to be a talent hunt, but it is a tv show. Jo had to stay like Chico did - for a while.

If Sugar wants a real new person he hires them via a headhunter, not via BBC2

Personally he should hire the Othello champ from the Armstrongs I reckon.

Billy I'm sure you're right that SAS kept Jo because she is good tv. And yes, there's some pantomime in the way that SAS questions the other two intensely, then sacks the one you least susptected. But Karen didn't fight her corner well I thought, and if she was in the teams that were slow to buy stuff then she can hardly complain. Even if she'd survived this round she wasn't looking likely to win in the end I thought.

Personally he should hire the Othello champ from the Armstrongs I reckon.

I think he should have Anne Armstrong on Velocity's team.

Good point Billy, even being a big brother fan I can appreciate your comments.

I was very suprised that Karen left and jo should have without a shadow of a doubt, bit disappointed in Alan really.

Jo is making a total idiot of herself for us all to see.

A thought has occured to me, (it was lonely)!! Does AS have a job in mind for the winner of this show? What prompts me to ask this is he kept telling Karen he didn't need another corporate lawyer, so what does he need? and has he already actually deicded what/who he wants and is just eliminating those 'trades' that he doesn't? Does he need a HR manager? Does he need a top salesman?

Good point, well made.

I thought Jo showed herself in a slightly better light this week and it did make sense for the "weaker" half of the team to put themselves up for the chop, which included Jo herself. I was sure she would choose Ruth and was pleasantly surprised when she didn't.