Is it time the final curtain fell on Britain's Got Talent? It feels like they've been flogging a dead horse for a few years now, so maybe it's time to call it a day once and for all?
I'm the first to admit the show was entertaining a few years back, but these things all come to their natural demise eventually, and for BGT that time feels like now. Anyone remember tuning into the National Lottery Results Show on a Saturday evening?
We've seen it all before..
Gone are the days where we watched with such bloodthirsty excitement as the hopes of the early stage delusional and talentless contestants would be crushed by the judges for our amusement. Some of the woeful singers and the car-crash comedians like Elaine Williams made for great TV, but once you've seen it, you've seen it:
I think BGT has simply lost its ability to surprise audiences, and sad as it is to admit, this once winning formula no longer works. Remember when we used to fall for the likes of.....
I didn't like it.......I loved it!
and
"Do you have another song?"
...Where the first song made them sound like Karaoke Kevin from Lundwood, yet the second song made them sound like Pavarotti.
The World's Got Talent
You could also be be forgiven for thinking that BGT is a show for British wannabes to showcase their talent to the British public, the clue is in the title right! but it feels like the number of non-British contestants increases every year. Why not call it 'World's Got Talent' and have done with it? Controversial, but true!
2022 Controversy
The 2022 final has fueled even more controversy, as many of the British public are hailing the two runners up as 'the real winners'. Why is that I wonder? What's their problem with the official winner?
The runners up were:
Tom Ball, the teacher with the amazing voice, and
Jamie & Chuck, the hilarious little lad and his puppet.
They're ordinary people just like you and I, so why have the public taken up their cause in defiance of the official result?
Ordinary People?
According to the collins Dictionary...
"A talent show, talent competition, or talent contest is a show where ordinary people perform an act on stage, usually in order to try to win a prize for the best performance."
Ordinary people like the official winner Axel Blake, who already has his own show on Amazon Prime?
Or ordinary people like the multi-millionaire Loren Allred?
No outpouring of sympathy for Loren by the looks of it:
@Beingabrown_ "Being known for one song must be hard because it's what everyone expects of you" Oh aye, so hard getting paid to sing a song that means you have a net worth of $2 million... f**king devastated for her"
Other social media comments include:
@d_loughins Wasted 9 whole weeks of my life to witness an already famous person win #BGT
@LiamMcA85108097 Remember when bgt was about giving original unknown amateurs a name #BGT
@cocoonfallout #BGT Maxwell should have won #fix
Replying to @axelblake_
Lost for words lol BGT is rubbish now it used to for new talent not established acts like you
@louh4 Replying to @axelblake_ Axel you was good but I think we the viewers should have been told that you was a professional comedian, personally I would have given all my votes to Tom the amateur if I would have known! @BGT @antanddec
So maybe the British public are displeased with the official BGT final result because some contestants were not as ordinary as others, and maybe they feel it wasn't a level playing field?
So there we have it. Let's see if they drag BGT out again in 2023. I'm just hoping Ricky Gervais and Adele audition next time.
Danny (Athersley)
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