chrisoff wrote:buddhu wrote:
so I suppose there are no trades descriptions issues.
Aside from their definition of Britain. No Scottish audition and no-one from Scotland through to main stages, or at least that's what I was told.
Did they have Cardiff and Belfast auditions?
The winner was from Port Talbot, over there in Wales. After years of banging on about independence and devolution, what're you saying, suddenly the Scots and the Irish want to be British? For the sake of a talent contest? Are you sure?
Besides, as you well know, the only time the telly regards the Scots and Irish as 'British' is during the Olympic Games, and then only when they win a medal. They're Scottish or Irish if they lose, obviously.
The Olympics is a talent contest too. So, for example, are the All-Ireland Championships that many here regard (rightly or wrongly) as the epitome of achievement in ITM.
Indeed, all of life is a talent contest, from the cradle to the grave.
Granted, some talent contests on the telly are toe-curlingly embarassing, but the talented and talentless have been trying to make it big ever since "Opportunity Knocks" and "New Faces", shows which gave the public stars such as Lenny Henry and Victoria Wood, amongst other names still at large in the entertainment industry today.
buddhu wrote:But at least this winner shows some talent, so I suppose there are no trades descriptions issues. Just ones of imagination and courage on the part of the programme makers and the voting public.
Did it hurt to squeeze that grudging acknowledgement out at the beginning? And do the general public and programme makers truly deserve to be branded as unimaginative and cowardly simply because they don't agree with *your* 'far left-field' opinions? They probably don't think so, nor do I.
Good luck to Mr Potts, who's had the courage and imagination to attempt to live his dream, and now after years of holding true to that dream finally has the opportunity to do so (with thanks of course to the cowardly and unimaginative programme makers and public).