{"id":7799,"date":"2013-11-28T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2013-11-28T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T12:51:36","slug":"rising-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7799","title":{"rendered":"Rising Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Israeli format <strong>Rising Star<\/strong> has been bought by ITV for broadcast next year. It&#8217;s a reality singing contest that uses &#8211; YES! &#8211; social media to add a twist. People vote on acts as they perform and Facebook pictures fill up on a wall in front of them. If between the audience voting at home and the studio judges they get a 70% approval rating, the wall lifts up and they progress to the next round.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YwWFA04sqEo\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can certainly understand the appeal for broadcasters, it&#8217;s a live show where the audience interacts and effect the results in real time (with an app! Hello youth!), and by all accounts the show got off to a massive start in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re also informed it isn&#8217;t rating all that well over there at the moment, and they dropped <strong>The X Factor<\/strong> flash vote pretty quickly didn&#8217;t they? Gut feeling suggests it&#8217;s got all the hallmarks of a show that people who like to write about TV think will be amazingly genre-redefiningly big but I reckon will do average at best. Interactive television = work for the viewer.<\/p>\n<p>It looks a bit like something from Charlie Brooker&#8217;s 15 Million Merits <em>Black Mirror<\/em> story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Israeli format Rising Star has been bought by ITV for broadcast next year. It&#8217;s a reality singing contest that uses &#8211; YES! &#8211; social media to add a twist. People vote on acts as they perform and Facebook pictures fill up on a wall in front of them. If between the audience voting at\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7799\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-21N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}