View Full Version : Grease is the word....
...I could suggest a few alternative four-letter words.
This is the so-called highlight of ITV's Saturday night schedule is it?
I'm sick of these shows - particularly now that we've got this on one channel, and then the Joseph one on BBC1 on the same night. Yeah, I know that there are 100s of other channels to choose from, but they ain't exactly brimming with quality programmes either.
From the "A Woman's worth" music when the girl gets booted, to the "nasty" judge, so the falling out with the judges, it's all been done plenty of times before. Surely there have got to be better TV programme ideas rather than just copying a tired format.
Having bellyached about it, I'm still watching. That dancing judge fella is hot! :luv:
FightForTheRight
07-04-2007, 23:37
There ARE better ideas - just none that the ITV or BBC can make real money through rip-off phone lines with!
There ARE better ideas - just none that the ITV or BBC can make real money through rip-off phone lines with!
Yep. According to Andrew Lloyd Webber the reason that this show got sold to ITV here (even though it was originally a BBC Production in the USA) was that ITV offered the producers all of the phone-in money.
Presumably the BBC can't do that as they have to be seen to be giving at least a decent %age of it to "charity".
At least the BBC one only showed those who can actually sing. The ITV are off on the chance to humiliate some of the sadder members of the general public again. Was amusing the first time they did it on Pop Idol etc but now they just parade the deluded.
smiddyboy
09-04-2007, 02:03
Good to see the Great British Publlic not pandering to ITVs copy-cat tactics :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6536885.stm
Saying that, enough people will be adding to Simon Cowells coffers everyweek to keep ITV happy.
It's a lose-lose situation for the viewers at any roads (not even any fit birds too look at on Joseph!!)
KennyVader
09-04-2007, 02:10
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/6676/42777743greasepahv3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Did they model the South Park character style after David Gest, or has he deliberately made himself look like a human version of them?
Fred2002
09-04-2007, 23:27
Good to see the Great British Publlic not pandering to ITVs copy-cat tactics :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6536885.stm
This is a horryfying image if ever I saw one :eek:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42777000/jpg/_42777671_jospeh203.jpg
Please tell me they are not seriously going to dress up the Joseph finalists like this?!? More camp than Butlins, and thats before they stick Graham Norton in the middle!!!!
Grease was worse than I possibly thought it could be and Sinitta is terrible. What the hell was she thinking when she put on her 2 bits of material and her Matrix coat?
Rumour is she is going to be on X Factor which I think could be possibly the worst move ever.
This programme is awful.
Showing bad performers is as stale as last years bread.
abarthman
14-04-2007, 18:44
Showing bad performers is as stale as last years bread.They must know that they are utterly crap and they should be filtered out long before they get in front of the judges.
I think they just do it in the hope of getting 30 seconds on TV and maybe getting called back at a later stage to repeat their crappy performance at some live final thing.
Fair play to them, though. Look at all the other talentless reality TV celebrities around.
KennyVader
14-04-2007, 19:08
They've found this year's Gareth Gates though.
Is David Gest part of Michael Grade's strategy to inject fresh ideas into ITV :?:
KennyVader
14-04-2007, 21:22
Well the Joseph show has just made mincemeat of ITV's effort.
They've got ALW, Graham Norton, Denise Van Outen ... and most importantly 12 blokes that can actually SING quite well.
I just hope that when they get to the later shows, they don't let John Barrowman kiss all the contestants to check their acting skills ... I'm sure he'd absolutely love to do it, but I'd rather Denise does it thanks :thumbs:
Mr Majestik
14-04-2007, 22:12
Well the Joseph show has just made mincemeat of ITV's effort.
They've got ALW, Graham Norton, Denise Van Outen ... and most importantly 12 blokes that can actually SING quite well.
I just hope that when they get to the later shows, they don't let John Barrowman kiss all the contestants to check their acting skills ... I'm sure he'd absolutely love to do it, but I'd rather Denise does it thanks :thumbs:
I think the contestants would prefer Barrowman...
KennyVader
14-04-2007, 22:16
I think the contestants would prefer Barrowman...
:lol: you may be right ...
Tsietisin
15-04-2007, 03:26
I knew one of the performers who was featured in last nights episode, namely Tal from Israel. I know that she went on the show because she wants to be a serious singer/actor/whatever and not because of the 5 minutes of fame that the appearance on TV gave her.
I have to say though, they went easy on her. She is a lot more scary in real life than they showed on TV.
cjanderson
15-04-2007, 10:27
who is the cutie brian? he is FINE.
i enjoy this stuff, i assume no one we have seen so far will be in the final 12.
I also watched 3 eps of it in the US one Sunday (superbowl sunday) and the later stages are good as well. And i prefer the songs to the joseph ones :D
KennyVader
15-04-2007, 12:13
I also watched 3 eps of it in the US one Sunday (superbowl sunday) and the later stages are good as well. And i prefer the songs to the joseph ones :D
Which series are you watching. That sounds like the US version of Grease that's finished now (and I gather was a ratings flop) that David Ian and the BBC made for the US (for NBC I think?) and was called "Grease - You're The One That I Want" and had Jim Jacobs as a judge on it (the lyricist of Grease) in the "Andrew Lloyd Webber" role.
The one now showing on ITV is completely separate to that US series (though David Ian clearly has a finger in it). I should imagine they're going to shove Jim Jacobs on one of the shows to desperately try to keep up with the BBC's Joseph having ALW on it, but he's nowhere near as freaky/interesting a person as ALW.
I already bought a ticket for Joseph when it opens because they were reasonably priced like the Sound of Music tickets, think the top price is only £45 or so. I looked at the Grease ones and they were over £60 for the top seats, so I passed on them. It's not very long at all since Grease was in the West End (if I remember rightly, it was a Bill Kenwright production, the guy who's taken the David Ian "producer" slot on Joseph - small world) - however good the production, being so common, it's just not worth that sort of money. So, while Grease may be the more well known songs, I can't see a run of it being that successful. Joseph was on for years when it was at the Palladium with Philip Schofield and Jason Donovan, but that was quite a while ago now, I should think a lot more people will be keen to see it because it's rarely put on outside of schools.
I also thought ALW's "we're also looking for a school choir" was a masterstroke of getting people watching Joseph rather than Grease. I think he said he only wants them for a couple of special shows but even so that opens the thing up to thousands of school teachers and parents to get their darlings' choir interested.
cjanderson
15-04-2007, 12:21
am watching the itv one.
But i also caught the denise van outen show which was on in the US when i was there a few months ago.
Got tickets for tomorrow night's show. It's through someone who's on the production team, so the seats should be good ones.
I'm hoping we get a visit backstage too....
"Brian, does this bag smell of chloroform to you?"... :n0rty: :luv: :D
KennyVader
11-05-2007, 11:18
Please assasinate that David Gest amoeba. Why is he famous anyway? Trip him over and the world will thank you.
The Grease show seems fundamentally flawed to me. Whose bright idea was it to couple them up and then kick them off as a couple? Unless the show is a total fix, and they've known which two they want since the very beginning and are going to fix it to make that happen (hopefully unlikely in the wake of the GMTV/Blue Peter phone-in scandals) then how is it fair that one person can get booted off because they have a dodgy partner? If they must boot off a couple per week they should be changing who is coupled with who each week or something. Or two couples should be nominated and then have two boy vs girl singoffs. Or have a boy vs boy boxing match and a girl vs girl mud wresting match. Ratings would be through the roof!
dwaine, you're a bad gay! Going to the Grease show on Eurovision night! tsk! :D
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