[Gary Baldy]

That’s interesting, and must be a fairly recent change to the website. I thought the numbers for series 2 were a bit disappointing given the slot it has. Do we think they’ve maybe got cold feet on a third series?

There's enough "names" left for another series, some more popular than who have featured already (Bowie, MJ, Madonna) but it won't amount to a huge difference in viewing figures. ITV will probably be thinking that a new format can do better than hovering around the 3m mark but I'm not so sure.

I guess the problem is that with a show like this, they want to new tribute acts all the time and not people doing, say Cher, every series. However, the issue with that is that 1. Most of the huge stars have already been done (bar the ones you’ve listed I think)- you don’t want them doing minor band members like Stars in Their Eyes seemed to turn into in its dying days in the mid-00s, you want somebody who’s universally recognisable, and 2. piggybacking off that, whilst there’s always new musicians breaking through, there’s very few successful big characters in the music scene now compared to what there once was- the likes of Olivia Rodrigo or Camila Cabello all blend into one- good voices but not strong enough characters to really pay tribute to. Whilst the two I mentioned are perfectly good recording artists, they’re not musical legends (in fact very few are), whereas go back 35 years or so and you had legends left, right and centre. I think for a tribute act, you’d want to pay tribute to a huge musical legend, not something bland and passable. I don’t know who the last act I’d say was a true musical legend but I’d say it’s been at least 20 years.