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The Apprentice: Season 7

15 episodes Premiered May 10, 2011 Updated Sep 26, 2026

Series Seven of The Apprentice was a British reality television series. The series started on BBC One on 10 May 2011, and ran for 12 hour-long weekly episodes, as in all previous years. However, Episode 1 and 2 were aired the same week, and the final episode four days after the penultimate. There were sixteen participants and the board consists of Alan Sugar, Nick Hewer and Karren Brady. The Apprentice: You're Fired

Previously on The Apprentice

Season 7 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Apprentice Season 6.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season overview

Series Seven of The Apprentice was a British reality television series. The series started on BBC One on 10 May 2011, and ran for 12 hour-long weekly episodes, as in all previous years. However, Episode 1 and 2 were aired the same week, and the final episode four days after the penultimate.

There were sixteen participants and the board consists of Alan Sugar, Nick Hewer and Karren Brady. The Apprentice: You're Fired! also returned on BBC Two, featuring Dara Ó Briain, who reprises his role of the interviewer of the fired candidate.

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Season 7 Episodes

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S7·E1 Mytharc

£250 Business Start Up

May 10, 2011 · 60 min

The stakes are raised higher than ever in this series of The Apprentice, as this time there is no six-figure salary job on offer. Instead, the sixteen candidates are vying for one

S7·E2 Core

Mobile Phone Application

May 11, 2011 · 60 min

An early morning delivery sends the candidates into the fast-paced world of technology. Lord Sugar challenges the teams to think big and go global as they must design, launch and p

S7·E3 Core

Discount Buying for the Savoy

May 18, 2011 · 60 min

The candidates are called to meet Lord Sugar at London's famous Savoy Hotel to be briefed on their next task. Following a 220 million pound refurbishment, the hotel requires a numb

S7·E4 Mytharc

Beauty Treatments

May 25, 2011 · 60 min

Lord Sugar gathers the candidates under the statue of Aphrodite at the British Museum, and reveals their next task: to set-up beauty treatment businesses in Birmingham. At the brie

S7·E5 Core

Create, Brand and Launch a Pet Food

Jun 1, 2011 · 60 min

In a pre-recorded briefing via a giant screen flanked by Karren and Nick, Lord Sugar has called the candidates to an advertising agency. Their task will be to create, brand and pit

S7·E6 Core

Rubbish

Jun 8, 2011 · 60 min

Alan Sugar calls the candidates to a rubbish dump, and challenges them to form junk-collection businesses. One half of each team has to haul the rubbish themselves while the others

S7·E7 Core

Freemium Magazine Launch

Jun 15, 2011 · 60 min

The teams are called to gleaming offices in Fleet Street, home to London's oldest newspaper district. Lord Sugar informs the candidates they'll be creating and publishing a free ma

S7·E8 Core

Paris

Jun 22, 2011 · 60 min

The venue for the candidates' latest briefing is St Pancras International. With the next Eurostar about to leave, there is just time for Lord Sugar to brief and re-balance the pers

S7·E9 Core

Biscuit

Jun 29, 2011 · 60 min

The candidates are enjoying their day off when Lord Sugar turns up at the door. Suddenly it's down to work after he tells them to make, brand and pitch a new type of upmarket biscu

S7·E10 Core

Flip It

Jul 6, 2011 · 60 min

Called to a north London wholesale warehouse, the teams are met by a nostalgic Lord Sugar, who tells the teams that it was from places like this that he started out buying low to s

S7·E11 Core

The Final Five

Jul 7, 2011 · 60 min

As this year's series of The Apprentice draws to a close and the tension mounts, this programme profiles the remaining five candidates. Revealing the true stories behind their supe

S7·E12 Core

Fast Food Chain

Jul 13, 2011 · 60 min

At a shopping mall in the City of London, Lord Sugar points out to the teams the wide range of successful fast-food chains and tells them to invent their own outlet, develop a uniq

S7·E14 Mytharc

Interviews

Jul 17, 2011 · 60 min

S7·E15 Mytharc

The Final

Jul 17, 2011 · 60 min

After eleven tasks, it's finally time for Lord Sugar to choose his business partner. The four finalists each have to face a gruelling interview process on their own. There is nowhe

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