The Apprentice is a British reality game show in which a group of aspiring businesswomen and men compete for the chance to win a £250,000 investment from British business magnate, Alan Sugar, towards a business of the candidate's creation, with Sugar as a 50% owner. Between series one to six, the prize was originally a £100,000-a-year job as an "apprentice" to Sugar, and winners went on to work at Amstrad, an electronics manufacturing company founded by Sugar (but since sold to BSkyB), or one of Sugar's other companies, Viglen, Amsprop or Amshold. The show, billed as a "job interview from hell", is very similar in format to the American series of the same name, which starred entrepreneur Donald Trump. Both the American and British versions of The Apprentice are produced by Mark Burnett.