The Firm (Season 2)
| The Firm | |
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The climb to the top starts here
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| Genre | Reality |
| Created by | Anne Low, Ng Ping Ho |
| Directed by | Ng Ping Ho, Crystal Woo, Joyce Lee |
| Starring | Peter Pek, Chan Boon Yong |
| Theme music composer | Ub3rsound |
| Country of origin | Malaysia |
| Original language(s) | English, with subtitles in Bahasa Malaysia |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 23 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Anne Low, Ng Ping Ho |
| Producer(s) | Anne Low |
| Location(s) | Klang Valley, Taiping |
| Editor(s) | M.S. Prem Nath, Kiang Hoon Yeat, Lew Cheng Teck |
| Camera setup | Wan Kok Cheong, Look Wei Keong, Tan Wai Lam, John G |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | ntv7 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Firm (Season 1) |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
The Firm is Malaysia's first corporate reality television programme produced by Popiah Pictures and ntv7. Hosted by Peter Pek and Chan Boon Yong, the show is directed by award-winning director Ng Ping Ho of Kopitiam fame. In The Firm, a group of professionals compete in an elimination-style competition to find the next corporate high-flyer.
Season 2 saw an increase from ten candidates to 14, and the number of episode from 10 to 13. It premièred prime time on ntv7 and Astro channel 107 on 2 August 2008. Contestants vie for the chance to get a contract to work for the chief executive officer of The Firm and RM100,000.
The Firm has two corporate leaders, and a CEO, who all judge the candidates at different stages:
Season 2 received over 500 applications in a nationwide search from January to April 2008. Of these, 100 were selected to be interviewed and the final 14 selected to appear in the show after extensive interviews. In addition to academic qualifications, individuals were selected based on their desire to excel, ambitious nature, focus, dedication and readiness to take charge. The 14 candidates are split into two teams that compete with each other. For the first time, a student was given the chance to compete. The team members are:
Each week, the team that loses that week's task is brought back into the boardroom where they will have to face their team's corporate leader, who will decide who should leave The Firm.
Yellow indicates individual rounds.
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