Amazon is looking to reboot ‘The Apprentice’ with Donald Trump Jr. at the helm

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It seems so trainee Maybe he’ll come back.

The Wall Street Journal Reports indicate that Amazon is discussing a potential reboot of traineea reality TV show that Donald Trump once hosted before he entered politics and became President of the United States.

Talks are said to be in the early stages, as the reboot is not in active development, and the Trump family has not been approached about the idea yet. People close to the matter also said Wall Street Journal Amazon executives have suggested internally that Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., could serve as host of the reboot.

when Hollywood Reporter Amazon reached out for comment, and a spokesperson shared in a statement, “Since our acquisition of MGM, we have had initial internal discussions about what is next for us.” trainee As a property. The show is not in active development, and any reports of show details or potential host names will be purely speculative.

THR It also reached out to the White House for comment.

Trump hosted the reality show for 14 seasons, from 2004 to 2015. trainee Follow the contestants as they compete for a job as an entrepreneur’s apprentice.

Amazon owns joint rights trainee Along with Trump’s production company, Trump Productions. While the show aired on NBC, it was produced by Trump Productions and Mark Burnett Productions, which MGM acquired in 2014. Amazon, of course, has since acquired MGM.

Although the show has been out of production for more than a decade, Amazon has been streaming reruns of the show, and the show has been sold over the years to subscription and streaming syndication

According to a copy of Trump’s financial disclosures, which I reviewed THRHowever, the show still generates him six figures in annual income, with revenues between $100,000 and $1 million in 2024. This figure does not include the value of the show itself, which Trump’s model says “cannot be easily verified.”

Amazon MGM previously cooperated with the Trump family when it acquired the documentary, Melaniafor $40 million and spent another $35 million on a global marketing campaign for the film. The film grossed $16.6 million, after earning a better-than-expected $7.2 million in January.

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