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TV "I don't have any popcorn," whispered Sir Alan noisily as Lorraine Heggessey squeezed into her seat beside him in the viewing room. Then, Roly Keating got up and made a breezy speech by way of introduction to the first episode, imploring the press not to reveal who gets fired, and admitting that this, in fact, was the first time even he was going to see who'd be taking that lonely cab ride to oblivion." -- Graham Kibble-White at the press launch for the new series of The Apprentice.