Donald Trump’s hit reality series The Apprentice premieres on NBC, created by Mark Burnett.
Fun fact: Mark Burnett had been trying to get a Russia-centric reality show off the ground since at least 2001, and Putin was involved in the project.
After the conversation, Burnett tells me, half-crowing and half-cowed, ”Putin is involved.” Yes, that Putin. Burnett has been negotiating with Russian officials for months over ”Destination Mir,” but recent reports on how the space station is about to fall out of the sky have, to say the least, complicated his plans.
The New York Times
