Note to Mark Burnett: When the O’Jays are singing “For the Love of Money” while Donald Trump and Regis Philbin look on, it’s not called entertainment. It’s called filler.
That’s the only conclusion a viewer could come to after sitting through that performance as part of the three-hour Apprentice finale last Thursday night. It was clear that Burnett, for all of his brilliance in making a show that is in essence a postcard to the back-stabbing mystique of New York, had run out of ways to fill the mammoth primetime slot he and the Donald were given to wrap up the show’s second season.
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