Britain's Got Talent -or Not

[Stavros]

The new series of Britain's Got Talent is a reprise of previous shows, with even the accusations of a 'fix' returning with the predictable line up of dancing dogs, dancing kids, dancing Karate school, and the hopeless desperate for their moment of fame. The Drag Queens are yet to come...but they will...
'Britain's Got Talent is recycling the same old shtick but with more Golden Buzzers' (yahoo.com)

Here is one new thing though: AI. The first act on the first night was a quartet of singers, two men and two women who, when they began to 'sing', re-appeared on a large screen as the four judges, AI enabling this trick which tired around 10 seconds after it started. The third act was a male singer who, when he started, er, 'singing' had a screen on which AI had arranged the faces of presumably famous singers/actors/whoever making it appear he was providing the voice for their performance.

In other words, the only talent on show was AI software, a novelty act that was truly not worth the effort -the equivalent of a teenager with a brush in the bedroom pretending to be Bowie or Elvis, but doing so with AI.

The other fraud on the show was the South African tenor Innocent Masuku, who claims he was told he was no good and should stop, prompting Simon Cowell to say 'I hope they are watching'. This will come as news to Garsington Opera with whom Innocent has a contract having won numerous awards and scholarships, was a member of Cape Town opera and has sung various roles in Rigoletto, The Magic Flute and Porgy and Bess. Simon Cowell could do with an assistant to research these people before he makes outrageous remarks, but then I guess not-so-innocent Innocent would not be on the show and we would have to suffer, as viewers did last year with a small boy murdering O Mio Babbino Caro (a ditty from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi which he clearly did not understand) who nevertheless made it to the final.

If there is any talent, we have yet to see it.

You can check up on Innocent here-
Nkululeko Innocent Masuku - Royal Scottish National Orchestra (rsno.org.uk)

[ceejay100]

Never watched BGT and don't intend to start anytime soon

[filghy2]

You seem to spend a lot of time watching movies and TV shows that you don't like.

[Stavros]

You seem to spend a lot of time watching movies and TV shows that you don't like.

Some of the time, not all of the time. I often sit and watch tv like BGT after or during dinner when I can't take anything seriously, or in the case of dramas, I binge watch through the night as I have a tendency to insomnia, the amazing thing being these daft dramas don't send me to sleep.

I think re BGT there is an aversion to spontaneity -they have to have some idea who the acts are because they can't risk an audition in which every act is as bad as a man with a fish head who can't remember anything, or mums of 7 who can't sing. Same goes for so many other so called 'reality' shows. It is vetted in advance, and it shows.

I do rather like the 1% Club and The Chase, and believe it or not, Family Fortunes- it is just astonishing what people will say. Contestants were asked to name the top 100 detectives on tv -the answers given? Kojak, Quincy, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's wife, ie Mrs Holmes (!), but no room for Morse which was the top answer. I can only assume a lot of 'normal' people don't watch that much tv.