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The Apprentice Australia listed as series 2 on the BBC3 schedule is actually series 6, so another example of an attempt to catch people out. What's more is that the show has been axed now but maybe because there's four previous seasons that haven't been aired over here that the BBC will air them and list them as S3 etc?

What a ridiculous post. Even if they had shown all previous series, I’m not sure listing this one as series 2 would be an attempt to catch people out, because generally people look for newer content. 

It’s the second series shown in the UK and it’s probably just to indicate to people it’s different from the series they’ve already shown. It’s a far more logical way for a streaming service to categorise them than only having series 5. 

As said unlikely they’d show the previous series as they don’t include Lord Sugar, unless this had done particularly well with UK audiences and they wanted to see if it still had appeal without him being attached.

Not sure it is such a ridiculous post but then broadcasters can do no wrong apparently.

The first series shown here was/is listed as series 1 and it was never in question that the series following on chronologically from that was going to be listed as anything other than series 2. It certainly wasn't going to be listed as series 1 because people know fine well that the format of The Apprentice doesn't consist of a grand final then a total reset of contestants midway through a series.

The comparisons to Doctor Who and Gladiators are flawed as viewers here know what is meant by "series 1" for these particular shows - that it denotes the first series since being rebooted. I doubt many people in the UK even know The Apprentice Australia has been rebooted (if that indeed is the case) since it isn't a British show. That those in Oz don't class the first Sugar series as season 1, it appears they don't see it as a reboot, so it's a quandary why the BBC seem so eager to.