I am – Hercules!!

It’s a show from “Survivor” creator Mark Burnett airing in “Survivor’s” timeslot, and it’s about 16 contestants trying to avoid getting tossed off the show.

Now the bad news: It’s centered around boorish alleged combover afficianado Donald Trump.

8:30 p.m. Thursday. NBC.

TV Guide says:

Debut: “Survivor” in pinstripes - 16 would-be business tycoons work for “master” Donald Trump (who fires one at the end of each program) in this 15-part series from executive producer Mark Burnett (“Survivor”). They all live together in a Manhattan loft apartment but work in eight-person teams by day, performing various executive tasks out of Manhattan's Trump Tower. Their first task: go to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange...and sell lemonade.

Variety says:

… as much as we aspire to that corner office and killer salary, if spending this much time with Trump is the price for finding "The Apprentice," for most viewers the job might fall into the life's-too-short category.

The Hollywood Reporter says:

… it requires a vivid imagination to see any of these 16 ambitious young tigers and tigresses in three-piece suits and power blazers as anything resembling an underdog. And that's a tough one to get past. The first 90-minute installment supplied for review is nothing if not sorely contrived and deathly dull. …

The Los Angeles Times says:

Despite possessing a smattering of PhDs, MBAs and even an MD between them, the boys and girls of "The Apprentice" demonstrate in the early episodes about as much business acumen as the cast of UPN's "America's Next Top Model." ) In the first episode, the teams are charged with the tasks of thinking up a name for themselves and setting up a lemonade stand. Both jobs prove surprisingly — if entertainingly — difficult for this elite group. … In terms of pure, element-defying excitement, the show is no match for "Survivor," which took the cutthroat ethos of corporate America and stripped it down to its basest, most primal essence. Then again, watching a caffeine-crazed guy in a business suit spend 20 minutes trying to divest a pedestrian of a grand in return for a Styrofoam cup full of artificial flavorings ("If you write me a check for $1,000 for that glass of lemonade, then you are going to experience the American dream") may not be all that exciting, but it sure is funny.

I am – Hercules!!