Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 22, 2012 21:52:42 GMT 2
What the UK, and indeed the world, certainly did not need was another TV talent show, full of squawking imbeciles and teary-eyed morons dedicating a Backstreet Boys song to their dead dad. But we got one, and it was called The Voice.
An import from the US, it promised BIG things. It had four, well, three, high profile judges (Tom Jones, Will.I.Am, UK pop nightmare Jessie J and blank Irish prick from non-event band The Script).
Yet for all it's gimmicks (revolving chairs! Looks don't matter! It's all about THE VOICE! Sing-offs!) it was the same old shit we'd seen for years now. And boy, did it ever show.
For while The Voice started strongly, after the first few weeks of fucking ATROCIOUS television that I couldn't even sit through (and this is someone who watches every episode of the X Factor) the viewing figures more than HALVED. In the end it was like a competition to even remember half of the contestants names. It was a shambles.
Anyway, the winner's single of the Next Big Singing Superstar absolutely stiffed, not even breaking the top 40 before disappearing out of the top 100 the next week, and just this week the £40 a ticket live tour has been scrapped due to, surprisingly, low ticket sales.
An out and out failure then. Excellent news. What's not so "hilarious" about it all is the fact that it cost the BBC more than 22 MILLION POUNDS to pay for this utter shit. And that's money from a license that we are required to pay by law. 22 MILLION. Think of the untouched scripts and uncommissioned TV shows that lie in the bin now thanks to this enormous waste of money. Fucking unbelievable.
Want an idea how bad it was? Try sitting through all 3 minutes of this. Good luck.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj9dHu4Qh74
Man, how DID this show flop so badly?
An import from the US, it promised BIG things. It had four, well, three, high profile judges (Tom Jones, Will.I.Am, UK pop nightmare Jessie J and blank Irish prick from non-event band The Script).
Yet for all it's gimmicks (revolving chairs! Looks don't matter! It's all about THE VOICE! Sing-offs!) it was the same old shit we'd seen for years now. And boy, did it ever show.
For while The Voice started strongly, after the first few weeks of fucking ATROCIOUS television that I couldn't even sit through (and this is someone who watches every episode of the X Factor) the viewing figures more than HALVED. In the end it was like a competition to even remember half of the contestants names. It was a shambles.
Anyway, the winner's single of the Next Big Singing Superstar absolutely stiffed, not even breaking the top 40 before disappearing out of the top 100 the next week, and just this week the £40 a ticket live tour has been scrapped due to, surprisingly, low ticket sales.
An out and out failure then. Excellent news. What's not so "hilarious" about it all is the fact that it cost the BBC more than 22 MILLION POUNDS to pay for this utter shit. And that's money from a license that we are required to pay by law. 22 MILLION. Think of the untouched scripts and uncommissioned TV shows that lie in the bin now thanks to this enormous waste of money. Fucking unbelievable.
Want an idea how bad it was? Try sitting through all 3 minutes of this. Good luck.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj9dHu4Qh74
Man, how DID this show flop so badly?
