Sadly the Best Show on TV Right Now

I just watched Peter Kay's Britain's got the Pop Factor... and possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice and it was brilliant - it summed up reality TV shows perfectly for me (although why they're called 'reality' is beyond me - what's real or everyday about prancing around on a stage and letting people who don't know you pass judgment?). The inane interviews; the sob stories; the ridiculously long pauses before the results are read out; the cheesy lines uttered by judges who take themselves far too seriously; the fact that each act performs for 3 minutes but the show is padded out with 20 minutes of build-up; the stupid amounts of money people pay the phone companies to vote for their favourites, yet they won't pick up the phone and pledge the same amount of money when it comes to things that actually matter like Children in Need or Comic Relief; the hysteria that surrounds the winner for all of three weeks, then they lose their 'fame' as quickly as they found it...

If you haven't seen it before, check out Geraldine's winning performance, which had me in stitches: -



I linked through on YouTube from this video to a clip of the X-Factor final from last Saturday night, and both shows looked as ridiculous as each other - the only difference being that the Peter Kay show knew it...