March 18th, 2010 by Sarah.
It seems that channel Five are set to cash in on Glee mania – while adding a dash of X Factor – for a new show that’s to be entitled, Don’t Stop Believing.
Handily for the show’s makers, Don’t Stop Believing – originally by Journey – was a hit for both E4’s Glee and Joe McElderry on X Factor.
The show will feature groups who will perform for the show’s judges and the TV audience of course, and will be voted off by viewers until one group wins.
Press reports state that Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly is tipped as being a serious contender to host the show, but the Press Association states that Corrie actress Kym Marsh and ex-EastEnders star Martin McCutcheon are also “in the running.” Read more & comment »
March 18th, 2010 by Sarah.
It seems that Katie Price banned ITV2 cameras from filming her Las Vegas wedding to Celebrity Big Brother winner Alex Reid.
Katie has of course been shadowed for a number of months by the channel for her reality show, What Katie Did Next, and viewers of the show who were expecting to see her wedding on tonight’s episode are going to be disappointed. Read more & comment »
December 16th, 2009 by Gerard McGarry.
It’s no secret that I’ve been disappointed by this year’s X Factor. And I’ve been impressed by the Facebook campaign to put Rage Against The Machine at the top of the charts this Christmas instead of yet another bland ‘winner’s song’ from X Factor.
The message today is go out and buy the Rage Against The Machine single. Now. And here’s why:
- The X Factor winner doesn’t have a God-given right to the Christmas #1. In fact, it’s easier for them because they’ve been on your TV and in the news for months.
- X Factor may be great TV, but it doesn’t encourage people to go out and write their own tunes. Support a legendary band by buying a song they wrote.
- If you agree with me that the talent on X Factor was rubbish this year – it’s a great way to send a message to Simon Cowell that the show needs to be more serious about talent – buy the RATM single instead!
- Killing In The Name is a frickin’ good song. It’s 100 times better than The Climb.
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September 14th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.
Presenting duo, Ant and Dec have insisted that reality TV is not dead. Thank God, or Unreality TV would certainly be out of a job!
The pair say that just because Channel 4 have canceled Big Brother, doe not mean that the genre is on its way out.
Ant told the Daily Star: “It changed TV, like Pop Idol. But reality TV is here to stay. People who want to kill it off are going to be disappointed. It’s not the root of all evil.”
July 5th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.
Sir Terry Wogan has hit out at cheap, modern TV shows saying that programming has deteriorated over the last fifty years. Terry is also unimpressed with the language of TV chefs like Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay.
Wogan told the Sunday Mirror: “Television has changed. It’s not what it was like 50 years ago. Light entertainment is no longer the expensive quality that it used to be. It’s all quiz games, reality TV and talk shows.
“Talk shows these days are just cheap TV. In the same way that reality TV is cheap television that humiliates people.
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April 10th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.
Proving that reality TV can be a power for good, music star Goldie revealed that the shows he took part in helped him pay for his expensive divorce.
Goldie starred in Celebrity Big Brother and Maestro and told thelondonpaper: “It’s called paying for a divorce. Now I’ve paid, that’s it. Actually, I had another reason for going on Big Brother.
“I used to be a kid in a children’s home with 25 others who never knew who they were, so I thought it would be funny to see eight celebrities who all completely know who they are talk about how they don’t know who the f**k they are at all. I wanted to upset the apple cart.”
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April 6th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.
ITV bosses have scrapped the public vote for this years series of Hell’s Kitchen.
In a bid to make the show more like Gordon Ramsay’s successful US version of the show bosses have decided that Marco Pierre White will now choose who gets sent home each evening.
A show source told The Sun: “Marco is rubbing his hands with glee, he can’t wait to get to grips with his new crew.
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February 24th, 2009 by Sarah.
Clicking on this image will take you to the touching Daily Mail article about Jade & Jack's engagement
The image above from the Daily Mail is without doubt the most touching, truthful and painfully sad depictions of Jack and Jade’s love that I’ve ever seen. The picture captures the desperately sad fact that despite their love for each other, they know they don’t have a long future, and it makes me weep every time I look at it simply because of the immense honesty of the picture.
And Jade Goody is, among many other things, honest; often painfully so. At one time, I would have said that honesty was born from the lack of sufficient intelligence to lie or carry out a deceit because as I’ve mentioned in my articles about Jade on this site before, when she first shot to fame on Big Brother in 2002, I couldn’t stand her.
I thought she typified the ‘chav’ type of young woman; loud-mouthed, inarticulate, crass, vulgar… in fact, I thought she was exactly what she portrayed herself to be – the ill educated product of a broken, dysfunctional family who lived on state benefits on a rough council estate. The fact that she seemed to be proud of – or at least not embarrassed by – “being thick” embodied for me many of the things that I felt were wrong with young people in this country today… Read more & comment »
January 14th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.
Former boyband singer, Andy Scott-Lee has warned aspiring reality TV stars that taking part in a show could ruin your marriage.
“Don’t do a reality TV show – it’s the death of any marriage,” he told New!.
“It all looks great and yet while the money is good, it’s not just a TV show, is it? It’s your life and you do get swept away with all the ideas of specials and future episodes.”
Scott-Lee and Celebrity Big Brother housemate Michelle Heaton starred in MT”Don’t do a reality TV show – it’s the death of any marriage,” he told New!.
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December 30th, 2008 by Sarah.
Sir Paul McCartney has blasted reality TV shows such as The X Factor and I’m A Celebrity because he reckons they humiliate people and take over TV scheduling.
The veteran singer told The Sunday Times that reality TV shows are “crowding out more creative programmes.”
“You can’t turn on the telly without somebody being judged by four people, whether they are on ice, or on the stage or in the jungle” he said.
“It’s compulsive viewing, but so is a traffic accident.”
Sir Paul, 66, also revealed how happy he is to be in a new relationship with Nancy Shevell, 47. Read more & comment »
