BENDIS!
11-13-2005, 10:12 PM
Stewart's 'Apprentice' fired
It's a fade out for "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart" after next month's finale. Sources said that NBC has passed on ordering another round of episodes of the Stewart-hosted edition of "The Apprentice" from Mark Burnett Prods. The spinoff has struggled for the peacock on Wednesday nights since its Sept. 21 premiere. A spokesman for NBC stressed Sunday that the show always had been scheduled to run for only one cycle. NBC and "Apprentice" executive producer Burnett tapped Stewart to helm the spinoff in an effort to capitalize on public curiosity about the lifestyle maven after her release this year from a five-month prison term for lying to investigators in connection with an insider-trading stock probe. Plans for Stewart to host the spinoff were announced in February while Stewart was behind bars in West Virginia (HR 2/03).
It's a fade out for "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart" after next month's finale. Sources said that NBC has passed on ordering another round of episodes of the Stewart-hosted edition of "The Apprentice" from Mark Burnett Prods. The spinoff has struggled for the peacock on Wednesday nights since its Sept. 21 premiere. A spokesman for NBC stressed Sunday that the show always had been scheduled to run for only one cycle. NBC and "Apprentice" executive producer Burnett tapped Stewart to helm the spinoff in an effort to capitalize on public curiosity about the lifestyle maven after her release this year from a five-month prison term for lying to investigators in connection with an insider-trading stock probe. Plans for Stewart to host the spinoff were announced in February while Stewart was behind bars in West Virginia (HR 2/03).