(01 Jun 2015, 2:48 pm)Adam wrote Thank goodness Britain's Got Talent's finished. I refuse to watch that blinking show. The same goes for all reality TV programmes, except I'm a Celebrity. I ended up at the pub with my Dad and my cousin last night.
The main reason why I don't watch it is because they have no morals at all. I know it's the case with the X Factor, so I suspect it's the same with BGT, but there is a pre-audition stage before people reach the celebrity judges in the televised auditions. What annoys me about this is that whoever deals with the pre-auditions quite clearly send through rubbish acts who have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, or even making it past the audition stage, to make an absolute mockery of themselves infront of the public, and even worse, on television, leading many people to laugh at them for being rubbish. Now, where is the morals in that? There isn't any!
Also, they send through some people who aren't fully there in the head, shall we say, building their hopes up only to be let down and made an absolute mockery of themselves infront of the judges and audience. Again, where are the morals? It's just not right in the slightest! Fair enough, if we take Susan Boyle for example, everyone thought she was a little deluded, but she's done fantastically well out of the show as she is one of few actually good acts that have come out of the show. Now that, I don't mind at all, but as for the rest of it, it basically insults people's intelligence!
On the X Factor as well, if you listen very carefully, you can tell whether people are going to get through or not, as they have some form of computerised voice enhancement feature, or something like that, so more or less rigs and fiddles the whole competition.
So, how long is it until the X Factor starts? I can temporarily stay in the living room on a Saturday night for now.
Like you, I can't stand any of those shows.
Apart from them making Cowell even richer and a few quid in the back pocket of his hangers on - it isn't entertaining to see people humiliated.
There was a fella on Radio Newcastle this morning - his surname was Wylie, so may be related to the fella behind Sage (can't remember his first name).
He has done bits and bobs around the region for a while now and has been auditioned for BGT on 4 occasions.
His classical style didn't get any further than those auditions - but one occasion, a dancing pig (some sackless dancing animal of some type), did get through.
Appreciate he has no divine right, but to be talented enough to receive paid bookings and to graduate from some drama school or another...