So the Alan Carr fronted interactive singing competition has begun tonight.
For those that don't know, the audience use an app to vote for contestants to appear on the live show, and then during the show they vote the contestant a hot or miss. It seems like a good idea to keep mobile savy audience members interacting with the programme.
However the first two times the app didn't work.
Alan Carr's humour is helping this move well, but could this interactive formula be the next big thing?
Alan's doing a very good job and the studio and production are pretty well done but there's something a little dull about it and it's dragging a little. That smoke effect when they're in the Gold Zone is quite distracting. Also the picture's been flicking every so often, it almost feels like it's about to fall off air.
People sing and I can vote for them? I can vote for them from my home? This truly is the future of television. Do I send a separate postcard for each contestant or just one for all of them?
I agree about the picture flickering and the smoke effect also. Fair enough as they leave - it's quite funny to see, even if the audience act as a baying mob.
I'm not sure that I like the 10 seconds to introduce themselves, it should be based on their singing straight away.
I don't understand why Alan Carr is even presenting this. I am not particularly a fan of his, the best thing he ever did was Flipside, but surely he is a big enough name that he can turn down stuff like this.
It was very rough around the edges. Interesting idea... when it works... but when someone is good they let off a smoke cannon off every 10 seconds until they finish which is annoying.
Don't see it getting past the first series myself without a lot of work to it.
The most interesting thing this evening is that three shows in succession have been live on Channel 4. That's a rarity for them.
It was very rough around the edges. Interesting idea... when it works... but when someone is good they let off a smoke cannon off every 10 seconds until they finish which is annoying.
Don't see it getting past the first series myself without a lot of work to it.
The most interesting thing this evening is that three shows in succession have been live on Channel 4. That's a rarity for them.
Million Pound Drop isn't live any more.
A lot of Endemol shows tonight though with that, Singer Takes It All and Big Brother. I think Singer was live from Elstree alongside Big a Brother as well.
The bit that we discussed was that the winner was one of the contestants where the at home voting app did not work. I know that Alan said there were a group of 100 people backstage, but they weren't the votes used for the later acts.
I imagine Alan's being used as part of his contract with the channel, similar to how Phillip Schofield is used by itv.
I'm not a fan of the million pound drop this series. The live element set it apart from other shows and seemed to make is more tense for some reason.
Plenty of flaws with the format but this is clearly meant as a simple entertainment format, not the next big talent show, and from that point of view it works pretty well. Indeed with this and The Last Leg it's the best night of entertainment programming C4 have had for quite some time.