Reality TV is a commonplace aspect of our weekly television viewing programs being shown all year round. TV talent shows have been screened since the birth of television however, in latter years such programs have saturated the TV and it seems there is frequently one talent show or another adorning our small screen.
For nearly ten years the UK X Factor has been an essential part of the nations televisual weekend viewing and in September 2011 Simon Cowell opened the show in the US. Talent shows are nothing new to America with American Pop Idol being very successful, in truth most of the globe appears to have affiliated themselves with the good old reality TV shows.
The Voice, created in The Netherlands was very soon taken up by America, Poland, Belgium, Ukraine and Mexico to mention a few. The Voice opened it’s door to the UK in 2012 where it was received with great expectation but once the infamous chairs ceased turning the British lost affection in spite of the glamorous mentor judges which came in the form of Jessie J, Danny O’Donoghue, will i am and the great Sir Tom Jones.
Another show to hit the world by storm is the Got Talent series. 39 countries at the last count produce their version of the show. Albania, Canada, Georgia, the Philippines and South Korea all participate making the Got Talent extremely profitable for the British brains behind the concept, Simon Cowell.
The flipside of Reality TV are the shows in which ordinary folk and ex celebrities are confined together for a number of weeks and we the viewer watch their every move. These programs include Big Brother, I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here and Celebrity Big Brother.
Both types of show are so incredibly liked that TV channels regularly find their reality programs going head to head for the much needed TV ratings as opposing shows are televised at the same time. Pre Christmas 2012 the UK’s ITV channel aired the X Factor while BBC aired their beloved Strictly Come Dancing. Although the two channels time there program listings not to be on at the same time, the ratings war is played out in the media with the last Strictly Come Dancing winning hands down.
While BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and ITV’s Dancing On Ice are truly popular in the United Kingdom, many fans are becoming disenthralled with the likes of X Factor slating it as fake, manipulative and a money making exercise for creator and producers. 2012 X Factor ratings were dismal in comparison to those of Strictly Come Dancing and for the last couple of years the population have made it their aim not to have an X Factor Christmas number 1 hit. Next year X Factor will be provide voting statistics during the shows as they do in the States, this apparently is going to energise the voting public to keep voting for their favoured artist.
Is this ploy really going to restore this burned out show? Probably not, but maybe strip out all the judges hype, concentrate on the X Factor hopefuls, get rid of the bells and whistles and let the public decide who they really want as their winner instead of being manipulated by the X Factor process would help.
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