Any Dream Will Do has certainly been the success story of the year for the BBC. The smash hit reality TV has seen off competition from ITV’s Grease Is The Word admirably and once again this week has whooped the show in the ratings.

Any Dream Will Do, took 5.5 million viewers and a 29% share for its first outing, with ITV’s Grease is the Word managing just 3.6 million viewers and an 18.3% share.

Why do viewers prefer the BBC’s musical show to ITV’s….Kevin O’Sullivan from The Sunday Mirror has given us his five reasons:

1 Far from being “the world’s greatest musical”, Grease is garbage compared with the strangely likeable Andrew Lloyd Webber’s tune-tastic Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

2 Grease’s couldn’t-careless judges Sinitta, David (yawn) Gest and Brian Friedman don’t know what they’re talking about. And their fiery fellow panellist David Ian is so constantly furious with them it’s a bit frightening.

3 Failing to fake any semblance of sincere interest, humour-free host Zoe Ball brings nothing to ITV’s party except a very loud voice. But on the Beeb, Graham Norton’s razor-sharp wit helps make things far less po-faced.

4 Grease Is The Word’s feeble finalists are so lacking in star quality they’ll need to change the catchphrase to: “You could end up having to be Danny and Sandy.” And here’s a new one for Any Dream Will Do: “You could be gay!”

5 Sinitta’s clothes. Sinitta’s presence. Grease executive producer Simon Cowell’s absence.

What do you think?