The Apprentice promises to be 'bigger and better than ever' as it confirmed its return date for 2023.
There will be a 17th series next year with even more candidates and more tasks overseas as well as in the UK.
Along with Lord Alan Sugar leading the reigns, there will be Baroness Karren Brady, Tim Campbell MBE and Claude Littner, who appears for two episodes.
18 contestants will join the series, competing to win a whopping £250,000 for the businesses.
On day one, the candidates will travel to Antigua and are told to create and sell excursions to tourists.
Other tasks will include creating their own cartoon, diving into the world of male beauty, immersive events, street food and a whole load more.
Comedian and writer Tom Allen will be hosting spin-off The Apprentice: You’re Fired, which will air each week on BBC Two, straight after the main show.
The news of the show's return comes after Lord Sugar admitted the original format of the show backfired so badly he decided to change it.
When the show first aired in 2005, winners were rewarded with a mega-paid job but other staff in his firms became jealous.
The tycoon explained: “A lot of people ignore the fact that the original format was that the winner would work for me for a six figure sum.
"That frankly never worked out too well as the winner had to work in one of my companies where people earned far less than that and were unhappy when they turned up.
“So we changed the format so the winner ends up in a 50/50 business with me and I inject £250,000 from day one. They run the business and I mentor them.
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“It has been successful since we started that and we began doing that since series seven, and now we are on series 17.”
Meanwhile, in order to prevent spoilers, it was revealed that the BBC show films two endings of the series.
The two finalists are kept in the dark about which of the hopefuls have received the £250,000 until just before the final.
Recent winner Harpreet Kaur said: "Everything on The Apprentice is filmed as you see it – there's no acting. But at the end you do have to film two alternates. It's just been amazing to finally have that closure of okay, so it did win.”
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