BBC - The Apprentice
Hocus Pocus Studio was the animation studio behind the kids TV episode task in Series 17 of The Apprentice on BBC One.
The Apprentice is compulsory viewing at Hocus Pocus Studio. It's a cracking show, and if you don't like it, you don't get it.
So just imagine the team's reaction when an email arrived asking whether the studio might be interested in featuring in a mysterious BBC prime-time business show. The only possible answer was YES SIRALUN SORRY LORD SUGAR.
The episode task was for the candidates to devise, design and produce a sample animation for a new kids TV show - in a single day. A project that would normally take the studio several months. The studio's team - Katy, Rob, Tom and Chris - were on hand to execute the candidates' creative visions, which meant staying professionally silent on typos, questionable colour schemes, and characters with the occasional missing hand or foot.
Along the way the team got to work with David Jason, Jessie Wallace, Craig Revel Horwood, Karen Brady, Tim Campbell and Lord Sugar himself. Not a bad day at the office.
Watch the episode on BBC iPlayer. For more on the studio's broadcast work, see our TV graphics and production page.
