I’ve been sitting here watching clips from Britain’s Got Talent this morning. They had the first semi-final round this weekend and of course Susan Boyle made it through to the finals. There was a couple of things that struck me though about this show compared to American Idol.
First, this show goes by much quicker than American Idol. It’s like they audition, a few nights of semi-finals for different groups, where you find out that night if you are in the finals, and then they have the finals. American Idol just drags on and on. Weeks of auditions. Weeks of singing and eliminating. Performance shows and then results shows. It’s ridiculous. I realize it’s all about advertising and making money, but it’s the reason I can’t watch it. It’s just too long.
Second, the demeanor of the show and overall attitude just seems more positive. Now, I’ve not watched it a lot. In fact, before Susan Boyle, I didn’t realize it was even still on the air. But just watching that video, and other audition videos and seeing Simon and the rest of the crew smiling like they were, just made me want to watch more. I’m sure they have bad auditions, but that is the thing…unlike American Idol, where they make shows or clips out of just bad auditions and drama-filled people, I haven’t seen it on Britain’s Got Talent. I’m not saying they don’t do it, but it just obviously isn’t as popular when they do it. Americans just seem to thrive on others’ failures, while the folks on the British show seem to want their people to succeed and even the judges do.
Maybe it’s just me and I haven’t seen enough of the show to see the bad sides of it. I just know that based on what I have seen, I’d much rather watch Britain’s Got Talent any day of the week.
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