This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Media
Sarah Harding, Chris Moyles to judge unstoppable TV talent show
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 14 February 2012
Ah, Sky is having another go at the talent show format. Remember ‘Must Be The Music’? No? Really? Come on Sharleen, surely you remember it? No, oh well, it was a thing. As will be ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’, though this is set to be a lame copy of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ rather than a lacklustre imitation of ‘X-Factor’, so that’s something to look forward to. Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding and radio DJ Chris Moyles have been booked to judge.
The main difference between this and ‘BGT’ is that the studio audience will get a vote. While Harding, Moyles, cricketer Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff and ‘Pineapple Studios’ dance personality Louie Spence will all provide what’s sure to be quality critique of the wannabe acts that appear on the show, the studio audiences will then be able to vote on keypads for their preferred performers, with the less favoured ones condemned to expulsion from the stage via a trap door, bungee rope or on-stage explosion. The overall winner will receive a £25,000 prize, which should surely cover any potential loss of personal dignity incurred. Well, nearly.
Says Amanda Byron, who will take time out from sneering at ‘Total Wipeout’ contestants to present this terrible new show: “We’re hoping to find some serious talent along the way, but contestants be warned! One bum note or bad joke and your hopes and dreams of success will be literally swept away from you, with a dramatic departure from the show”.
And if that doesn’t sound like a frighteningly ‘real’ realisation of ‘Black Mirror’ episode ‘Fifteen Million Merits’, I don’t know what does.
