Popstars

All together now, Dough, I'll make, a lot of dough, Ray of light shone out my ass, Me, all me, and me and me, Far, is still too close to be, So, I got into the band, La, I've got it on a plate, Tea, I'd rather have champagne, That will cost a lot of dough…oh…oh…oh… (with apologies to Julie Andrews) That's the sorry state of Popstars that many would have us believe. Popstars (or should I say Hear Say) are described only too often as a manufactured band, lacking talent, brought together to make ITV rich. No room for fat Claire, no room for Darius to spread his ...  Read the complete review

Pop Idol is a crueler more commercial spin off from the same company who bought us Popstars.It again offers the chance for wannabes to emulate Hearsay and be plucked for stardom from no where. And also sign away all their legal rites to the royalties and intellectual patents to disappear after one year in to the same anomininity where they came from. Anyone who entered this from the final 5000 would be well aware what’s coming through watching Popstars.So LWT beefed up the format by introducing more stringent tests of star ability and ways of making the TV Company money on the side. Ant and Dec who have done for children’s TV, what Anthrax ...  Read the complete review

I know this is in the Popstars section, but I have tried to suggest a Pop Idols section and it hasn't came up yet. Anyway both programmes are nearly the same. Pop Idols is another version of Pop Stars - this is where a panel looked for 5 people to form a group, which ended up as Hear'say. Pop Idols is just looking for 1 singer and they will get a recording contract for a year and all the other pop star things that come with it. This show is presented by Ant and Dec. They are always telling jokes and seem to fit the part of presenters well. 10,000 people have applied for this important position to become the next Pop Idol. There are 4 ...  Read the complete review

What is the problem with television producers nowadays? I am sorry but I am sick and tired of seeing complete and utter rubbish shown on the television. What I am referring to is this "increase" in so called "reality" television. It all started a long time ago in a faraway place where a very intelligent man called George Orwell (not his real name but an alias) wrote a book called "1984". This book or novel if you will focused on the danger that our lives will no longer become private in the future due to the fact that there was a large screen nicknamed "Big Brother" that would tell everyone in the city what the news is by ...  Read the complete review

Some kind of Pop Stars/Pop Idol type programme but featuring 8-14yr olds. S Club 7/CBBC have been holding auditions this weekend for kids to make up a support group for their concert at Wembley in Feb 2002. My daughters’ friend saw this advertised on CBBC and asked if my daughter would like to go with her to the audition. Up for everything as Xanthe is she said she would like to go. After two weeks practicing (see other op!!?) and roping in another girl we were off to audition. Auditions began at 10am Sunday morning at the Lowry Theatre in Manchester. We arrived at around 8.45 to find a queue of about three hundred wannabes ...  Read the complete review