Be the Boss
Competition faces off two lower-level employees from the ranks, giving them the chance at what they think is a big promotion. In each episode, the CEO summons two deserving candidates to the company headquarters and subsequently puts them through a series of challenges to test their mettle at being in a senior management role. Both employees battle to prove they should earn the promotion, but they're in for the shock of their lives when they discover that an even greater opportunity is ultimately at stake, the keys to their very own franchise. With franchise fees often running into the hundreds of thousands and sometimes even exceeding one million dollars, Be the Boss offers one of the largest prizes in all of television and the promotion goes to the runner-up.
- 2012-2013
- 1 season
- A+E Networks
- Game Show, Reality
Competition faces off two lower-level employees from the ranks, giving them the chance at what they think is a big promotion. In each episode, the CEO summons two deserving candidates to the company headquarters and subsequently puts them through a series of challenges to test their mettle at being in a senior management role. Both employees battle to prove they should earn the promotion, but they're in for the shock of their lives when they discover that an even greater opportunity is ultimately at stake, the keys to their very own franchise. With franchise fees often running into the hundreds of thousands and sometimes even exceeding one million dollars, Be the Boss offers one of the largest prizes in all of television and the promotion goes to the runner-up.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Complete Nutrition
Sun, Dec 2, 2012 44 mins
A successful up-and-coming nutritional supplement store pits a former beauty-pageant Queen against a country-singing Marine for the big promotion. After the competition turns personal, the winner is rewarded with the keys to their very own store.
Episode 2
The Melting Pot
Sun, Dec 9, 2012 44 mins
A larger-than-life restaurant manager and a former butler go head to head as they compete to own their own fondue franchise. But to get it, they'll have to start from square one: making one ton of cheese from cows they milked themselves.
Episode 3
Auntie Anne's
Sun, Dec 16, 2012 44 mins
A sassy single mother is pitted against a manager who's been rolling pretzels since he was in high school. As the two struggle to single-handedly run a store on the busiest day of the year and create new pretzel products for the company.
Episode 4
Molly Maid
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 44 mins
Two all-star employees from opposite sides of the tracks compete for a once in a lifetime opportunity with a leading cleaning company.
Episode 5
Jazzercise
Sun, Dec 30, 2012 44 mins
Two instructors face off to show the CEO of Jazzercise that they've got all the right moves. In the most intense job interview of their lives, the two head out to recruit sorority girls.
Episode 6
Signal 88 Security
Sun, Jan 6, 2013 44 mins
A workaholic manager who goes by the name "Bulldog" is pitted against a salesman fighting to recover from the loss of his own business. They're immediately faced with a test that literally pushes them over the edge.