I don't know about you but I am sick and tired of Television company's expecting me to be entertained by members of the general public. There is no situation they will not place them in for our viewing “pleasure”. They stick em all together in a flat, send them to remote Scottish islands, and if that wasn’t bad enough they even get them involved with wife swapping, although I must admit that one sounded quite promising when I first heard the title - until I watched it of course.
Most of us old gits remember the way Saturday night telly used to be. People like The Two Ronnies, Morcambe and Wise, even Val Doonigan for goodness sake, at least his show was worth watching because at the end of the day these people were professional entertainers. So although a mortuary attendant from Crewe covering a Whitney Houston track is probably a much cheaper option than hiring a proper singer on a Saturday night where is the entertainment value in that you might think?
Well, this all becomes crystal clear when the 17 year old proceeds to get systematically torn apart by the expert panel of judges. Lead of course by smug arsed Simon Cowell you have already worked out the fact that she doesn't possess the X-factor, when for no apparent reason she decided to change key half way through the first verse. If truth be known she is already fully aware of the fact that she has made a total fool of herself so do we really need Cowell and his Muppet's to hammer it home any further?
This show is nothing more than choreographed karaoke in my opinion, with a very unsavoury twist added to the mix. Anybody with any real talent of course should have the sense to avoid this fiasco of a programme - like the plague.
Back in the seventies Hughie Green did this sort of thing properly. He showcased a host of proper stars that went on to become household names in their own right and he didn’t feel the need to humiliate anyone in the process either. Not even if you re talking poodle decided to take a dump half way through the routine.
So I say enough of this Joe Public bollocks.
Viewers are fed up now, and the falling ratings prove it.
Stick yer hand in yer pockets and re-employ some proper entertainers. Bring back a bit of “variety” on a Saturday night…………….
SoapBoxTwo….in need of a bit of light entertainment please.
MY TWO CENTS............by SB1
Once again I completely agree and luckily for me being an ex-pat I don´t get this twaddle thrown at me from every camera angle till some poor buggers been humiliated into millionaire-dome. They´ll only take it off air when people stop watching it and with so many TV hours to fill on so many channels, its gonna be with us for quite a time albeit in the form of re-runs or"classic-cuts" as they cunningly disguise them. What gets my goat is that they give everybody the idea that they can do it so there´s barely a night goes by when you don´t hear My Way belting out of a pub window a semitone sharper than the backing track and entire bands walking the streets, or even cleaning them cos there´s no work for Live Musicians anymore cos the guy who used to do the mobile discos at weddings (don´t worry its stored up for later!) has expanded and now plies his trade with a laptop plugged into a portable telly.
Most of us old gits remember the way Saturday night telly used to be. People like The Two Ronnies, Morcambe and Wise, even Val Doonigan for goodness sake, at least his show was worth watching because at the end of the day these people were professional entertainers. So although a mortuary attendant from Crewe covering a Whitney Houston track is probably a much cheaper option than hiring a proper singer on a Saturday night where is the entertainment value in that you might think?
Well, this all becomes crystal clear when the 17 year old proceeds to get systematically torn apart by the expert panel of judges. Lead of course by smug arsed Simon Cowell you have already worked out the fact that she doesn't possess the X-factor, when for no apparent reason she decided to change key half way through the first verse. If truth be known she is already fully aware of the fact that she has made a total fool of herself so do we really need Cowell and his Muppet's to hammer it home any further?
This show is nothing more than choreographed karaoke in my opinion, with a very unsavoury twist added to the mix. Anybody with any real talent of course should have the sense to avoid this fiasco of a programme - like the plague.
Back in the seventies Hughie Green did this sort of thing properly. He showcased a host of proper stars that went on to become household names in their own right and he didn’t feel the need to humiliate anyone in the process either. Not even if you re talking poodle decided to take a dump half way through the routine.
So I say enough of this Joe Public bollocks.
Viewers are fed up now, and the falling ratings prove it.
Stick yer hand in yer pockets and re-employ some proper entertainers. Bring back a bit of “variety” on a Saturday night…………….
SoapBoxTwo….in need of a bit of light entertainment please.
MY TWO CENTS............by SB1
Once again I completely agree and luckily for me being an ex-pat I don´t get this twaddle thrown at me from every camera angle till some poor buggers been humiliated into millionaire-dome. They´ll only take it off air when people stop watching it and with so many TV hours to fill on so many channels, its gonna be with us for quite a time albeit in the form of re-runs or"classic-cuts" as they cunningly disguise them. What gets my goat is that they give everybody the idea that they can do it so there´s barely a night goes by when you don´t hear My Way belting out of a pub window a semitone sharper than the backing track and entire bands walking the streets, or even cleaning them cos there´s no work for Live Musicians anymore cos the guy who used to do the mobile discos at weddings (don´t worry its stored up for later!) has expanded and now plies his trade with a laptop plugged into a portable telly.
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