There's talent (shows) abound!
With X-Factor done and dusted for another year and Strictly Come Dancing waltzing to a climax at the weekend, it seems barely a day has gone by over the past week without some news of a new series of some reality talent show or other.
As though who know me would protest if I tried to show any distain for the genre, it forces me to confess my general liking of these kinds of shows. I'm not a massive "Strictly" fan but was one of the millions who sat through over 4 hours of X-Factor/Xtra Factor on Saturday night as Leona Lewis was crowned champ over Scousamatic Ray.
But the rush of press releases over the past week seem to suggest that all the major channels have lined up for the New Year is more of the same.
January begins with a three-way clash between BBC1's Just the Two of Us (how that made a second series I don't know), ITV's Soapstar Superstar (now minus Ben 'Courtstar Superstar' Freeman) and Celebrity Big Brother (which technically falls into the non-talent reality show - on so many levels).
The scheduling suggests that Soapstar Superstar will then be followed by Simon Cowell's latest X-Factor-meets-Opportunity Knocks offering, Britain's Got Talent, which has the potential to either be truely awful or sheer brilliance - and I haven't quite settled on which of the two I'm expecting yet. The American version was won earlier this year by an 11-year-old American equivilant of Bonnie Langford. It's that simple sentence that puts me off.
The unlikely pairing of Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd-Webber returns for the follow-up to How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? with their new search for stars of a revamped West End production of Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Meanwhile, Simon Cowell is back again (good to see they've got him earning his reported £20 million) with an completely unique idea which seeks to find two new stars for the lead roles in Grease. In fairness, it has been most amusing hearing him trying to explain why it's not just a completely rip-off of the beeb's Maria show. Yeah Simon - and X-Factor is nothing like Pop Idol either...
With expected returns too for Dancing on Ice and more I'm a Celebrity and X-Factor, it's likely to be a busy reality year for ITV particularly. I've been trying to do the maths though and am not even entirely sure if there are actually enough weeks in the year to fit this lot in at the moment. Even if they do, it's very probably going to all be a bit too much - even for a reality junkie like me!
~~steve~~
www.tellytunes.com
As though who know me would protest if I tried to show any distain for the genre, it forces me to confess my general liking of these kinds of shows. I'm not a massive "Strictly" fan but was one of the millions who sat through over 4 hours of X-Factor/Xtra Factor on Saturday night as Leona Lewis was crowned champ over Scousamatic Ray.
But the rush of press releases over the past week seem to suggest that all the major channels have lined up for the New Year is more of the same.
January begins with a three-way clash between BBC1's Just the Two of Us (how that made a second series I don't know), ITV's Soapstar Superstar (now minus Ben 'Courtstar Superstar' Freeman) and Celebrity Big Brother (which technically falls into the non-talent reality show - on so many levels).
The scheduling suggests that Soapstar Superstar will then be followed by Simon Cowell's latest X-Factor-meets-Opportunity Knocks offering, Britain's Got Talent, which has the potential to either be truely awful or sheer brilliance - and I haven't quite settled on which of the two I'm expecting yet. The American version was won earlier this year by an 11-year-old American equivilant of Bonnie Langford. It's that simple sentence that puts me off.The unlikely pairing of Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd-Webber returns for the follow-up to How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? with their new search for stars of a revamped West End production of Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Meanwhile, Simon Cowell is back again (good to see they've got him earning his reported £20 million) with an completely unique idea which seeks to find two new stars for the lead roles in Grease. In fairness, it has been most amusing hearing him trying to explain why it's not just a completely rip-off of the beeb's Maria show. Yeah Simon - and X-Factor is nothing like Pop Idol either...
With expected returns too for Dancing on Ice and more I'm a Celebrity and X-Factor, it's likely to be a busy reality year for ITV particularly. I've been trying to do the maths though and am not even entirely sure if there are actually enough weeks in the year to fit this lot in at the moment. Even if they do, it's very probably going to all be a bit too much - even for a reality junkie like me!
~~steve~~
www.tellytunes.com
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