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(29-04-2023, 08:52 PM)Josh Wrote: There was an animated cat singing Michael Buble just now. Genuinely wondering what this show has come to.
I didn't watch it on TV but I'm watching the YouTube upload on the BGT channel and if you told 5 year old me ten years ago watching the BGT final with the woman who was throwing eggs during a performance that in the year 2023 an animated singing cat would audition for this show I would probably lose my mind.
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(01-05-2023, 03:13 AM)LouBlu08 Wrote: (29-04-2023, 08:52 PM)Josh Wrote: There was an animated cat singing Michael Buble just now. Genuinely wondering what this show has come to.
I didn't watch it on TV but I'm watching the YouTube upload on the BGT channel and if you told 5 year old me ten years ago watching the BGT final with the woman who was throwing eggs during a performance that in the year 2023 an animated singing cat would audition for this show I would probably lose my mind.
Probably worth remembering the cat won't actually win anything, being a CGI fictional creature, its more about the illusion. Much like puppets.
Although that being said, somebody's clearly got too much time on their hands to create a character to audition for a talent show and get it past the initial behind the scenes audition before the filmed ones...
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I thought the animation looked kind of... awful? I thought the conceit was weak as well. All of it felt like an attempt to do something different, fair enough, but it really didn't work for me at all.
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The cat was an insult to viewer’s intelligence I think.
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(01-05-2023, 12:01 PM)Gary Baldy Wrote: The cat was an insult to viewer’s intelligence I think.
I suspect that viewers of BGT are not doing so to enhance their intellect.
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(01-05-2023, 08:52 AM)Neil Jones Wrote: (01-05-2023, 03:13 AM)LouBlu08 Wrote: I didn't watch it on TV but I'm watching the YouTube upload on the BGT channel and if you told 5 year old me ten years ago watching the BGT final with the woman who was throwing eggs during a performance that in the year 2023 an animated singing cat would audition for this show I would probably lose my mind.
Probably worth remembering the cat won't actually win anything, being a CGI fictional creature, its more about the illusion. Much like puppets.
Although that being said, somebody's clearly got too much time on their hands to create a character to audition for a talent show and get it past the initial behind the scenes audition before the filmed ones...
Most contestants are scouted beforehand and are invited to audition, if that even happens. If there's any truth in Tom Ball being involved, you also have to question how that partnership came about.
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tellyblues Wrote:Most contestants are scouted beforehand and are invited to audition, if that even happens. If there's any truth in Tom Ball being involved, you also have to question how that partnership came about.
They probably saw him last years Britain’s Got Talent.
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People should realise and understand BGT is entertainment, not a real talent show - it is about giving the 5 or 6 million watching on the night pure entertainment, lifting them out of their crapulence of their weekday - the cat routine will simply die a death once it reaches the live finals, so for the moment, people should just enjoy it for what it is, entertainment, and not take BGT seriously.
BGT is a talent show in the same way GB News is a "news" channel.
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(01-05-2023, 02:07 PM)tellyblues Wrote: (01-05-2023, 08:52 AM)Neil Jones Wrote: Probably worth remembering the cat won't actually win anything, being a CGI fictional creature, its more about the illusion. Much like puppets.
Although that being said, somebody's clearly got too much time on their hands to create a character to audition for a talent show and get it past the initial behind the scenes audition before the filmed ones...
Most contestants are scouted beforehand and are invited to audition, if that even happens. If there's any truth in Tom Ball being involved, you also have to question how that partnership came about.
Yet another singer who didn't capture the publics imagination in the way Simon hoped so they basically keep trying to flog the dead horse having had him get a golden buzzer over on America's Got Talent Champions too.
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(01-05-2023, 02:07 PM)tellyblues Wrote: (01-05-2023, 08:52 AM)Neil Jones Wrote: Probably worth remembering the cat won't actually win anything, being a CGI fictional creature, its more about the illusion. Much like puppets.
Although that being said, somebody's clearly got too much time on their hands to create a character to audition for a talent show and get it past the initial behind the scenes audition before the filmed ones...
Most contestants are scouted beforehand and are invited to audition, if that even happens. If there's any truth in Tom Ball being involved, you also have to question how that partnership came about.
I don't doubt there's a copious lot of scouting - that's just the process of ensuring you can fill six/seven/eight/however many audition episodes the network wants, and if it was done purely on auditions they'd probably only get two shows out of those anyway.
Like they say, all of television is a lie.