Not every Britain has got that certain flair (Britain's Got Talent)

Member Name: blissman70

Product:	Britain's Got Talent
Date:	07/06/09 (59 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some comical auditions and some good acts

Disadvantages: Many bad acts, gets a little too serious in semi's and finals

Britain's got Talent, (or BGT to give it its more hip name), is a talent show (obviously) which was first aired in 2007 on ITV 1.
The winner of the show receives a prize of £100.000 and a chance to perform in front of a Royal member in the Royal Variety Performance


The show is presented by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (aka Ant and Dec from Byker grove), with a sister show called Britain's got more talent aired on ITV 2 and hosted by Stephen Mulhern.

Series 1 aired on 9th - 17th June 2007, with the winner being opera singer sensation Paul Potts
Series 2 aired on 12th April - 31st May 2008 with the winner being dancer George Sampson.
Series 3 aired 11th April - 30th May 2009 with the winner being Dance group Diversity.


** SHOWS FORMAT...

The format was created by Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell, who had turned the idea into a 'Got Talent' franchise, with many countries using the same format.

The show opens with several auditions, which are held throughout the country in cities such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Cardiff. The auditions are held in front of three judges, (sometimes four) and a live studio audience.
The judges consisting of Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Peirs Morgan, with other guests judges including Kelly Brooke.
Each contestant performs there piece with the possibility of being triple buzzed by the judges, which means that the contestants audition is over, but not before they are criticised by the judges.
Anyone can perform any act, from singing and dancing, to juggling and prancing, even stripping is on the agenda, much to Cowells joy.
The best of these auditions are chosen by the judges to go through to the next stage, then the chosen contestants are discussed about by the judges and whittled down until the semi finalist are chosen.
The successful candidates from the auditions are then told whether they have made it to the semi finals, the unsuccessful ones leave for home.

The semi finals are aired live and in front of a studio audience, with each semi finalist performing again in the hope of being one of the two chosen to go through to the Final.
Again, the judges can triple buzz the contestant and halt their performances, but it is up to the viewing public, who phone in to vote for their favourite act, to help chose who goes through to the Final. The act with the biggest phone vote goes through to the final, then the next two acts with the highest phone votes stand in front of the judges, who then have to decide which one will go into the final.
This format continues throughout the semi final until all the finalist are chosen.

The Final show is split into two parts, the first part being the contestants performances, the second part being the result show and the announcement of the winner.

Throughout the shows each contestant is either criticised or praised by the judges, and usually booed by the audience.

So that's it, the format is simple, audition, hopefully get into the semi finals, perform again, hope the public like you enough to get you into the final, perform once more and hope the votes go your way and you win.


** IN CONCLUSION...

I tend to try and avoid these reality type shows, which is very difficult to do as once they hit the television screens they are also straight in the newspapers, on the local news and even the world news, so avoiding the chatter about who's good and who's bad, or who's got the X factor and who's got the 'Y' factor is pretty difficult indeed. But to be honest, I found myself watching more of this show than I care to admit.

For me the auditions are a scream, especially when you get to watch people who are so convinced that they are completely talented only to be told that their singing sounds like a hack saw cutting through a steel rod, the reaction on their faces is priceless as they stomp off stage, muttering under their breath, their cursing over powered by the booing audience.
Each person that auditions truly does believes they are capable of winning the prize, believing they really have got that special talent, but the truth is that 90% of the contestants have about as much talent as Simon Cowells hairstylist, but this talent less gaggle are the real entertainment surrounding the show, with some hilarious results indeed.

But once the comical opening auditions are over and the serious stuff begins I tend to lose interest in the show itself, although due to the media circus it creates I can't avoid knowing who is favourite to win, or who had a bad up bringing by their mean aunt Velder.

You hear a lot of people saying the show is cruel, especially toward young children when Cowell and his cronies make negative comments about the act, but the show is what it is and people are not forced to audition.
But this show is far from being cruel...cruel is FORCING Jews into gas chambers, cruel is FORCING Christians into a lions den... so how can people say it is cruel to ALLOW the British public to audition in the hope of becoming £100.000 richer and possibly famous with it.

And then there are those people who seem to want to blame the show and its format for the way people feel after they have been rejected from the show. To blame the show for peoples failure is wrong, and to blame Cowell for upsetting contestants is also wrong, (I can't believe I'm going to say this about Simon 'white teeth' Cowell, but...) he simply tells the truth about an act, he states how he feels and how good/bad the act is. If contestants feel insulted by his comments then they should blame the people who lied to them about their talents, blame their family member and friends who told them they had a voice like an angel, scared to hurt their poor feeling in case the tears appear. Don't blame Cowell for telling the truth, blame your family and friends for lying to you for years about the talent you haven't got.

Even if some little kid ends up crying on the stage in front of millions, it is not the show fault that this child may be traumatised for the rest of it's life, it is down to the child's parents/friends for convincing the child that they had some form of talent to begin with.

In the three years that this show has been running people know exactly what it is about, so to come on the show and scream that your talent is better than you think, or that your child is not as crap as Cowell claims is just shear stupidity.

The simple fact is you know what the show is about so if you haven't got the talent then don't apply for an audition as you will not be happy with the truth being told to you.

I do have one things left to say which I found to be totally disgusting in the 2009 series, it involves what I can only describe as media bullying... and concerns the latest series runner up Susan Boyle, who, after I watched her audition on line after learning about her extraordinary talented voice, soon realised that this poor lady was being ripped apart by the British media, probably because her face didn't quite fit the norm for woman singers these days, meaning she isn't a size 0 with boobs hanging out of her skimpy costume, with the ability to mime at the drop of a hat.
This woman had raw talent and a voice which slapped all those doubters right in there sniggering faces, yet the press found it in themselves to discredit her for being a little nervous and acting a little strange.
This lady did not ask for the world wide publicity she soon became involved in, all she wanted to do was show her talent in the hope of performing in front of the queen, but the worlds media felt they should rip into her and cause her to have a possible breakdown.
Why did they do this just to her?
They never did this to the like of Paul Potts with his amazing voice or even George Sampson with his 'dancing' technique. So why do it to Susan Boyle?

Anyway, in all, Britain's got talent is a quite entertaining show with some comical auditions, but once the seriousness starts, for me, the show loses that entertainment value.
And, if you have a talent like Susan Boyle or even Paul Potts, then prepare for a ripping from the British media, especially if you're a woman.

So Britain has got talent but not as much as the British public think they are talented.

Summary: Britain's has got talent... but it has a lot more talentless people.