As I’ve said elsewhere accepting really poor singing or really poor dancing skills for so long whilst others who are decent leave is not fair on those who have the skills to do these things. It is even worse if these people spend years training and reach certain standards they are being kicked in the teeth by the voting public and the judges on these Saturday night reality programmes.

Gosh standards of any sort are not required now, hell no need for anyone to bother training to develop a partial skill or enable the progress of a gift as it simply isn’t appreciated or loved.

Maybe there is a big diffenence between television viewer and theatre goer after all. Give a rubbish performance in theatre and the audience wants its money back.

The only excuse for some level of bad performance is comedy and then it has to be srutinised to ensure it doesn’t defame or critically damage an existing persons career. Hence the Government has stepped in to stop a BBC comedy course, because it fears that people have lost the real meaning of comedy in place of scarcasm and estremely dark wit.

Maureen
Newcastle.