Watching her on CiN night presenting, I thought there were glimmers of evidence to suggest she'd make quite a good presenter for 'light and fluffy' stuff, or was it just me ?
I remember of few years back their were rumours of her own chat show on BBC One. Obviously it never happened!
I tend to agree, actually. She didn't start off terribly well on SCD, but they were fully supportive of her. I thought, in the end, she added a lot to the show. Whilst the show only occasionally wins in the ratings battle, it trounces X Factor on the audience appreciation scale. I've never fully understood why people continue to watch X Factor only to complain about it endlessly on Facebook immediately after. Daft.
I can't imagine why she would choose to jump to a flagging Cowell show, unless of course the cheque was too big to refuse.
Apparently she wants to record an album, and BGT doesn't take up as much of her time as Strictly. So money wasn't the only reason.
I tend to agree, actually. She didn't start off terribly well on SCD, but they were fully supportive of her. I thought, in the end, she added a lot to the show. Whilst the show only occasionally wins in the ratings battle, it trounces X Factor on the audience appreciation scale. I've never fully understood why people continue to watch X Factor only to complain about it endlessly on Facebook immediately after. Daft.
I can't imagine why she would choose to jump to a flagging Cowell show, unless of course the cheque was too big to refuse.
Apparently she wants to record an album, and BGT doesn't take up as much of her time as Strictly. So money wasn't the only reason.
Don't they both take three months?
Either way, good luck to her. I think it's a bad move myself, moving to a show where there's a constant stream of negative comments - bad acts, poor judges, dipping in the ratings, wrong people going into the final...
Contrast that with what's been dubbed as the "best strictly ever" this year, and you have to wonder what her motivation is.
I tend to agree, actually. She didn't start off terribly well on SCD, but they were fully supportive of her. I thought, in the end, she added a lot to the show. Whilst the show only occasionally wins in the ratings battle, it trounces X Factor on the audience appreciation scale. I've never fully understood why people continue to watch X Factor only to complain about it endlessly on Facebook immediately after. Daft.
I can't imagine why she would choose to jump to a flagging Cowell show, unless of course the cheque was too big to refuse.
Apparently she wants to record an album, and BGT doesn't take up as much of her time as Strictly. So money wasn't the only reason.
Don't they both take three months?
Either way, good luck to her. I think it's a bad move myself, moving to a show where there's a constant stream of negative comments - bad acts, poor judges, dipping in the ratings, wrong people going into the final...
Contrast that with what's been dubbed as the "best strictly ever" this year, and you have to wonder what her motivation is.
According to BBC Radio 2 this morning BGT takes 6 weeks (auditions) plus 1 week for the finals. SCD takes 15 weeks.
According to BBC Radio 2 this morning BGT takes 6 weeks (auditions) plus 1 week for the finals. SCD takes 15 weeks.
Although I'd have thought that BGT would take up more time than that as it involves travelling and presumably they're in each audition place for more than a day. SCD is just 15 Saturdays
I do like Alesha but I think that BGT is a dying brand. No judges can save it, the ratings were down last year and I can only see them falling more this year. It peaked with the year when Diversity won and Susan Boyle came second. I think she would have been better off sticking with Strictly who have shown a lot of loyalty to her during the Arlene replacement fiasco and SCD still has a lot of life left in it.
Actually of all the "talent" shows this year Britain's Got Talent lost the least viewers - just 1% (Strictly lost 2%, XF lost 12%, DoI actually up 3%) Like The X Factor it suffered from below par talent last year but Simon returning should help ratings and I think they'll try and cash in on the whole 2012 thing, especially with it climaxing on the Jubilee weekend.
It does seem odd though that Simon has openly said he wants to make the show feel "younger" this year - so he poaches a judge (admitedly by far the youngest) from a show with notably older demographics.
Offset I'm sure by at least an extra £250,000 in his pay packet this year. If I were Cowell I'd have kept his cash though as although I do think the prize probably did need increasing, £250,000 would have been enough. I guess though next time it's in trouble they'll go for a £1m prize.
Some very interesting clips of the 2005 pilot of Britain's Got Talent with Fern Britton rather than Amanda Holden during The Talent Show Story tonight. It was in a studio rather than a theatre (though you'd expect that for a pilot I suppose), the audience was made up of all the acts in the show, the judges would score the acts in a New Faces kind of way and the Xs on the front of the desk appeared on small TVs rather than being a physical X. Strangely they mentioned that it was hosted by Paul O'Grady and showed a stock photo of him but didn't actually show any footage of him.
Some very interesting clips of the 2005 pilot of Britain's Got Talent with Fern Britton rather than Amanda Holden during The Talent Show Story tonight. It was in a studio rather than a theatre (though you'd expect that for a pilot I suppose), the audience was made up of all the acts in the show, the judges would score the acts in a New Faces kind of way and the Xs on the front of the desk appeared on small TVs rather than being a physical X. Strangely they mentioned that it was hosted by Paul O'Grady and showed a stock photo of him but didn't actually show any footage of him.
The plan was to use Paul O'Grady for the commissioned series until he defected with his chat show to Channel 4. Even though his contract enabled him to work on prime time, he had a disagreement with ITV.
Some very interesting clips of the 2005 pilot of Britain's Got Talent with Fern Britton rather than Amanda Holden during The Talent Show Story tonight. It was in a studio rather than a theatre (though you'd expect that for a pilot I suppose), the audience was made up of all the acts in the show, the judges would score the acts in a New Faces kind of way and the Xs on the front of the desk appeared on small TVs rather than being a physical X. Strangely they mentioned that it was hosted by Paul O'Grady and showed a stock photo of him but didn't actually show any footage of him.
Ant and Dec would probably be outraged if too much of a mention was made of him. I doubt they like him being the first choice
Some very interesting clips of the 2005 pilot of Britain's Got Talent with Fern Britton rather than Amanda Holden during The Talent Show Story tonight. It was in a studio rather than a theatre (though you'd expect that for a pilot I suppose), the audience was made up of all the acts in the show, the judges would score the acts in a New Faces kind of way and the Xs on the front of the desk appeared on small TVs rather than being a physical X.
The X's on screens would have been due to it being a pilot as well, it's not worth spending too much on the set for a pilot. The documentary did make it seem like it went straight from that to the fully formed America's Got talent, whereas of course it would have had a lot of development done... I wonder at what point NBC bought it
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Strangely they mentioned that it was hosted by Paul O'Grady and showed a stock photo of him but didn't actually show any footage of him.
He might not have allowed them to show any clips of it.
