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Predictable top 3 for sure, but being honest a rather worthy one as well. And OMGYAY at Empire Of The Sun picking up so much appreciation. How We Are The People and Walking On A Dream weren't HUGE I really can't fathom.

I must admit between Pixie (who really is the most BUDGET popstar we have at the moment) and Shontelle, I'm vaguely disgusted with the Buzzjack collective at the moment.

You just KNOW that he broke into the scriptwriter's office and inserted those scenes himself. Like Gary says, he is actually visually attractive for someone his age, but you just know that in reality you'd spend weeks trying to wash the grease stains out.

01. Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart 02. Take That - The Flood 03. Alexis Jordan - Happiness 04. Crystal Castles & Robert Smith - Not In Love 05. Diana Vickers - Once 06. Robyn - Dancing On My Own 07. Owl City - Fireflies 08. Kelis - Acapella 09. Example - Kickstarts 10. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are 11. Eminem & Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie 12. Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission 13. Cee Lo Green - Forget You 14. B.O.B & Hayley Williams - Airplanes 15. Lady GaGa - Alejandro 16. Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers 17. Katy Perry - Firework 18. Nicole Scherzinger - Poison 19. Plan B - She Said 20. Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II)

By far the best top 50 we have come up with. 01. Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People 02. David Guetta & Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over 03. Royksopp & Robyn - The Girl And The Robot 04. Example - Watch The Sun Come Up 05. Chicane - Poppiholla 06. Lily Allen - The Fear 07. Kasabian - Fire 08. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance 09. Jordin Sparks - Battlefield 10. Beyonce - Sweet Dreams 11. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition 12. Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway 13. Beyonce - Halo 14. James Morrison & Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings 15. Madonna - Celebration 16. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You 17. V V Brown - Shark In The Water 18. Lady GaGa - Paparazzi 19. A H Rahman & Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho 20. Jay-Z & Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind

Much as the sudden Atomic Kitten love is BEYOND me (what a load of SHIT), I have to say overall that's a better list of qualifiers overall this year. The difference in quality for the 2009 qualifiers in particular is ASTONISHING. Bravo Buzzjack

Kat and Alfie may have their flaws, and their on/off antics can be SOMETIMES a tad repetitive and tedious. But "lifeless" they've NEVER been.

That's wonderful dear, but what is your opinion on lace wigs?

Ha, I saw that exact same show. Andrea Corr, Ace of Base and Louise Redknapp. It's a Gooddelta wet dream!

Janine Butcher vs Max Branning Janine Butcher vs Ronnie Branning Janine Butcher vs Tanya Jessop Janine Butcher vs Zainab Masood Janine Butcher vs Kat Moon Max Branning vs Ronnie Branning Max Branning vs Tanya Jessop Max Branning vs Zainab Masood Max Branning vs Kat Moon Ronnie Branning vs Tanya Jessop Ronnie Branning vs Zainab Masood Ronnie Branning vs Kat Moon Tanya Jessop vs Zainab Masood Tanya Jessop vs Kat Moon Zainab Masood vs Kat Moon

Having watched the first two episodes now, I'm still not sure that this is QUITE going to match up to the previous series, but enjoyable nonetheless. The plot wasn't great; I think Torchwood is much better when exploring the human and social issues than when they try to compete with James Bond movies with action scenes and implausible gadgets - for my money the brief scenes at the hospital and the surgeon committees were far more interesting than watching the long and drawn-out Blue Peter style "wacky science" experiment aboard the plane. Having said that, I love fiesty Gwen when she gets in a tizz and the Welsh accent comes on thick; her screeching at the air stewardesses (who were also great fun) was a highlight. PR woman also looks like she's going to be providing much merriment. Katya Kinski from Neighbours ambling around with a back-to-front head was amusing and utterly ridiculous at the same time (if only Susan Kennedy had thought of doing that sooner!) - I do wonder if they used their SFX budget up on the suicide bomber and all those explosions in the first episode. On Bill Pullman however, I can only echo what others have said. That TV interview scene was utterly appalling and very awkward to watch. People mock John Barrowman for his OTT acting, but he's Oscar-worthy in comparison.

01. YASMIN - Finish Line 02. FRIENDLY FIRES - Live Those Days Tonight 03. TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB - Something Good Can Work 04. LYKKE LI - Sadness Is A Blessing 05. LADY GAGA - The Edge Of Glory 06. ANDREA CORR - State Of Independence 07. KT TUNSTALL - Uummannaq Song 08. TAKE THAT - Love Love 09. TAKE THAT - Happy Now 10. CLARE MAGUIRE - The Shield And The Sword 11. THE WOMBATS - Anti-D 12. ADELE - Set Fire To The Rain 13. THE PIERCES - You'll Be Mine 14. THE NAKED AND FAMOUS - Young Blood 15. EXAMPLE - Changed The Way You Kiss Me 16. THE PIERCES - Glorious 17. THE FEELING - Set My World On Fire 18. HURTS - Sunday 19. ADELE - Turning Tables 20. HURTS - Illuminated 21. ELIZA DOOLITTLE - Mr Medicine 22. ELLIE GOULDING - Lights 23. KATY PERRY - E.T. 24. CEE LO GREEN - Bright Lights, Bigger City 25. CHRIS BROWN & BENNY BENASSI - Beautiful People 26. LADY GAGA - Judas 27. TINIE TEMPAH - Simply Unstoppable 28. CARO EMERALD - A Night Like This 29. BEADY EYE - Millionaire 30. JENNIFER LOPEZ - On The Floor 31. UNKLE - Only The Lonely 32. NERINA PALLOT - Put Your Hands Up 33. ARCTIC MONKEYS - Don't Sit Down Cause I've Moved Your Chair 34. KATE BUSH - Deeper Understanding 35. SPIRITCHASER - These Tears 36. ARCADE FIRE - City With No Children 37. SHARAM - Fun 38. WYNTER GORDON - Dirty Talk 39. BLONDIE - Mother 40. NOAH AND THE WHALE - Tonight's The Kind Of Night

01. Anastacia - You'll Never Be Alone 02. Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean 03. Doves - Pounding 04. Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles 05. Coldplay - The Scientist 06. Aqualung - Strange And Beautiful 07. Alizee - Moi Lolita 08. Elvis & JXL - A Little Less Conversation 09. Tenacious D - Tribute 10. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle 11. Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise 12. Oasis - Little By Little 13. Doves - There Goes The Fear 14. Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry 15. Alicia Keys - How Come You Don't Call Me 16. Ashanti - Foolish 17. Idlewild - American English 18. Will Young - Light My Fire 19. Eminem - Without Me 20. Brandy - Full Moon 21. Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi

01. Jakatta - American Dream 02. Safri Duo - Played-A-Live 03. The Corrs - Give Me A Reason 04. Feeder - Buck Rogers 05. Gorillaz - 19/2000 06. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me 07. Elbow - Newborn 08. PPK - Resurrection 09. N-Trance - Set You Free 10. Kosheen - Catch 11. Mary J Blige - Family Affair 12. Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This 13. Liberty X - Thinking It Over 14. City High - What Would You Do? 15. Sum 41 - Fat Lip 16. Ian Van Dahl - Will I 17. D12 - Purple Pills 18. System Of A Down - Chop Suey 19. Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal 20. Depeche Mode - Dream On

BREAKING NEWS: Brian Sewell AGOG at continuing decline in televisual standards, has Bryan Kirkwood firebombed

SHOCK NEWS: Dot Branning "enjoys a bit of a smoke now and again"

Indeed. Tom's issue was rarely that he was responsible for poor ideas or strategy (emergency biscuits aside), but that he wasn't confident enough in his own commercial awareness and too polite to put his foot down and enforce his views on his teammates.

I have no doubt that even despite a relatively OK list, we will still manage to see safely through Stacie Orrico and the worst song Kylie Minogue has ever farted out. 01. Deepest Blue - Deepest Blue 02. Kosheen - All In My Head 03. HIM - The Sacrament 04. Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling 05. Enrique Iglesias - Addicted 06. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage 07. The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love 08. Jurgen Vries & Charlotte Church - The Opera Song 09. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Mixed Up World 10. Kelly Rowland - Can't Nobody 11. Jaimeson - Complete 12. Eminem - Sing For The Moment 13. R Kelly - Ignition (Remix) 14. Delta Goodrem - Born To Try 15. Blur - Out Of Time 16. Oasis - Songbird 17. Missy Elliott - Gossip Folks 18. Simply Red - Sunrise 19. Texas & Kardinal Offishal - Carnival Girl 20. Sinead Quinn - I Can't Break Down

I have avoided the temptation to loon score and am instead going HONEST 01. Embrace - Ashes 02. Zero 7 - Somersault 03. Speedway - Can't Turn Back 04. Snow Patrol - Chocolate 05. Jamelia - See It In A Boy's Eyes 06. Deepest Blue - Give It Away 07. Damien Rice - Cannonball 08. Eric Prydz - Call On Me 09. Outkast - Hey Ya! 10. Kasabian - Processed Beats 11. Lemar - If There's Any Justice 12. Basement Jaxx - Good Luck 13. Enrique Iglesias & Kelis - Not In Love 14. Lucie Silvas - What You're Made Of 15. Delta Goodrem - Out Of The Blue 16. Kelis - Milkshake 17. The Corrs - Summer Sunshine 18. The Rasmus - In The Shadows 19. Estelle - 1980 20. Kings Of Leon - The Bucket

Roxy really has got TOO FAR in this Group 1 (the three BEST in the same group?!) Janine Butcher (this past week alone has put her firmly back on top) Carol Jackson Max Branning Group 2 Kat Moon Ronnie Branning Roxy Mitchell Group 3 Zainab Masood Dot Branning Tanya Jessop

He said they were researching new avenues for the nail file business. Which is presumably going to be depleting some of the £250k investment available for the chairs.

Indeed. It suggests he was only interested in investing in an existing business, in which case why even bother wasting the time of contestants he KNEW from the beginning didn't have their own business at the time? And it also wipes out his justification for firing Helen, which was based solely on her business plan. If he was willing to disregard Tom's original plan, then maybe he SHOULD have just gone into partnership with Helen and done the same for her. I like Tom but I can't even pretend that he was a better contestant than her.

It very much sounds like it doesn't it? Which kind of makes a mockery of the episode we've just seen.

I kind of have to agree. I can see why it was necessary to do it this way given the nature of the prize; at the end of the day the business plan is just as an important if not a more important factor when deciding who to invest in. I think the concept of the prize is flawed in itself though, in that essentially the Apprentice stopped being the Apprentice and became a Dragon's Den clone instead for the finale. And much as I'm thrilled Tom won, I can see that Helen would have great cause to feel aggrieved. In a past series she would have made for the EASIEST hiring of all-time. The contestants spend all those months taking in part in the tasks, which ultimately don't actually mean ANYTHING because in the end it all comes down to the business idea instead. But yes, the interviews felt that they were over far too quickly and there wasn't enough fighting and drama in the final boardroom. I think I'd have actually preferred a 2 hour finale focused solely on the interviews/decision rather than having it crammed into an hour and then wasting another hour hearing what Michael McIntyre thinks of the whole thing and seeing some clips of Jim wearing a brown turd drawn on Microsoft Paint.

Oh I missed that bit... Jark in GOOD TASTE SHOCKER. He's adorable.