{"id":8389,"date":"2015-01-11T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2015-01-11T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T14:51:25","slug":"talent-spotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8389","title":{"rendered":"Talent spotting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t forget that the Poll of 2014 closes TONIGHT just before midnight, if you haven’t voted then please make sure you do so.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"harry\"<\/a>So we’re in new talent show season, The Voice UK<\/strong> got off to a strong start yesterday but I’ve no real interest in that, instead I’ve just watched Harry Hill’s Star’s In Their Eyes<\/strong> on catch-up which was SITE with added Harry Hill zanyness. This is quite a difficult tone for the show to take – on the one hand there seems little point directly competing with serious talent shows, and there’s certainly no point being the same as The Voice,\u00a0<\/em>on the other hand the original show ran for almost twenty years and there’s a certain expectation of what it’s going to be like and anyone expecting a show like the original got a fairly rude wake-up call.<\/p>\n

In truth as a parody of light-entertainment masquerading as light-entertainment I enjoyed it (although I also accept I didn’t really watch much of the original back in the day), I thought the presentation and formatting gags were quite funny (“the not live final! It’s not live, but it is<\/em> a final. And winning Stars in Their Eyes<\/em> is unlikely to change your life, but then it won’t ruin it either,” and the Brucie style “What have they got?” “STARS!” “Where are the stars?” “IN THEIR EYES!”) and they found decent people to play along with the gags in their normal life VTs, if not brilliant singers in the main. In truth I probably would have dropped a couple of the sillier sketches like\u00a0the bread fight and Adele’s baby, maybe they should have emphasised Harry Hill a bit more in the titling.<\/p>\n

Although a rating of 3.7m (inc. +1) is going to feel disappointing, it’s really not much worse than other new ITV light-entertainment offerings in the last few years. The worrying thing is that people seemed to be tuning out of it across the hour. The fun thing is knowing that the’re filming about a week ahead so we can see if they make changes – the horse has already bolted I expect, episode two is in the can so if they’re going to make changes it will be from episode three. Really it’s Dick and Dom’s Ask the Family<\/strong> all over again – another show I enjoyed, but another show that got gradually less fun after audience reaction.<\/p>\n

Next Sunday Get Your Act Together<\/strong> begins which may or may not be an Endemol Joe production, and really I’ve got no idea how it will do – people watch Britain’s Got Talent<\/strong>, but Sunday Night at the Palladium<\/strong> was only doing 3.5m (but has been recommissioned). So we’ll see. What we do know is that it’s all in the can apart from the live final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t forget that the Poll of 2014 closes TONIGHT just before midnight, if you haven’t voted then please make sure you do so. So we’re in new talent show season, The Voice UK got off to a strong start yesterday but I’ve no real interest in that, instead I’ve just watched Harry Hill’s Star’s In\u2026 Read More »<\/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-8389","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-2bj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389","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=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}