Britain's Got Talent 2019

fritzelly

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Anyone gonna watch love island. Never watched it before. But will give it a go !

Are you a masochist or a single 21 year old who left school at 10?

donkeykong5

fritzelly wrote: »

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Anyone gonna watch love island. Never watched it before. But will give it a go !

Are you a masochist or a single 21 year old who left school at 10?

Omg. Its crap. Cant get into it at all.

mikeym

Ah sure hes an old man.

:rolleyes:

Who cares the British public got it wrong as usual.

fritzelly

mikeym wrote: »

Ah sure hes an old man.

:rolleyes:

Who cares the British public got it wrong as usual.

Bar the kids no one else deserved to win either - at least he is gonna donate (a large sum?) to the Royal Chelsea

SirChenjin

Would be interesting to see how the programme would go if back stories and uniforms were cut out.

Just have the contestants audition on their own merit as performers. Neither the judges nor the viewers know anything of their background, their history, their families.

It won't happen, of course, because the whole thing is so stage managed but it would be interesting, IMO.

fritzelly

Sob story is prime time viewing - nothing more the average joe wants than a good old sob story regardless of how convoluted it is (like the Grenfell one)
If the teacher had a class of disabled students he would have been onto a winner

Strazdas

fritzelly wrote: »

Sob story is prime time viewing - nothing more the average joe wants than a good old sob story regardless of how convoluted it is (like the Grenfell one)
If the teacher had a class of disabled students he would have been onto a winner

Yes, people nearly vote for 'personalities' on these shows more than anything else.....same goes for nearly all of reality TV

SirChenjin

Strazdas wrote: »

Yes, people nearly vote for 'personalities' on these shows more than anything else.....same goes for nearly all of reality TV

Yes, that's true. I'm not a seasoned BGT viewer but I thought that a number of the finalists this year - and indeed the winner - were there on the basis of their stories rather than their talent.

Vicarious Function

Strazdas wrote: »

Yes, people nearly vote for 'personalities' on these shows more than anything else.....same goes for nearly all of reality TV

In the long run, though, real talent survives - examples Susan Boyle, Paul Pots Diversity who are still going strong ten years later.

fritzelly

Vicarious Function wrote: »

In the long run, though, real talent survives - examples Susan Boyle, Paul Pots Diversity who are still going strong ten years later.

Exactly, the real talent survives and makes more money whilst the winners morph into obscurity in most cases - one trick ponies are most winners

SirChenjin

Anyway, it has been a good thread, I have enjoyed reading everyone's views.
We will reconvene I'm sure for the next show!

RobertKK

These sob stories and people who go in with a story always makes me think of this...if you want a smile on your face.

iamwhoiam

Unless there is an outstanding act people will vote for a personality . If you get excellent acts like Diversity , Attraction , Spellbound they will win
Once the talent is fairly even the personality will win

In Ireland its the big groups that win due to the small voting pool

JP Liz V1

The same acts from AGT the champions for BGT the champions

Are the superfans all English?

gmisk

That was tbh an odd first episode...the top 3 was poor bar the Americans imo...boogey storm zzz.
The sand art thing was cool but it was on Eurovision this year so not really blown away by it.
Also....the winners have seemingly been leaked online so kind of spoils the show a tad.

JP Liz V1

Is it not live, who won so?

gmisk

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is it not live, who won so?

Definitely not live.

I will post with spoilers but everything online is saying

twist and pulse

Vicarious Function

The Judges seemed really surprised by the results of the "Superfans" vote - as indeed i was too.

fritzelly

Found the sand act very boring and seemed to go on forever
Laughed my arse off at the Aussies

Vicarious Function

I din't find the sand act as good this time as the first time I saw it. Design-wise, it seemed less polished.

JP Liz V1

fritzelly wrote: »

Found the sand act very boring and seemed to go on forever
Laughed my arse off at the Aussies

She got Amanda's golden buzzer for the sick cancer kids story

Anyone from Ireland's Got Talent on it

Mr.Crinklewood

fritzelly wrote: »

Found the sand act very boring and seemed to go on forever
Laughed my arse off at the Aussies

Must show it to Mrs Crinklewood then.

fritzelly

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Must show it to Mrs Crinklewood then.

Crude sense of humour needed

JP Liz V1

fritzelly wrote: »

Found the sand act very boring and seemed to go on forever
Laughed my arse off at the Aussies

RobertKK wrote: »

Kseniya Simonova the sand artist, what an incredible talent, deserved golden buzzer, it was just a beautiful act.

It was good and different but not mind blowing

SirChenjin

Enjoyed it overall. Skipped past the 'scary' act, I found that type of act boring in the last BGT so figured it was not going to be entertaining to me.

Amanda loves switching on the tears, I think ah no, she probably was genuine about it.
Ashleigh didn't entertain me first time around with Pudsey, again, it's just personal taste. She obviously has a talent for training the dogs.

I liked most of the others. Light entertainment on a Saturday evening.

RobertKK

The dog act was just crazy good.

anewme

The cheek of that crappy mouth moving guy to even attempt to tell an Irish joke while BREXIT is the biggest joke in the world bar none shows the arrogance of the Brits.

martingriff

anewme wrote: »

The cheek of that crappy mouth moving guy to even attempt to tell an Irish joke while BREXIT is the biggest joke in the world bar none shows the arragonce of the Brits.

LOL

anewme

He was complete ****e.

Second rate Butlins Act.

gmisk

anewme wrote: »

He was complete ****e.

Second rate Butlins Act.

I think that's harsh he is really talented.
The section with the puppet in the bag was funny.

But the dog act was fantastic.

anewme

gmisk wrote: »

anewme wrote: »

He was complete ****e.

Second rate Butlins Act.

I think that's harsh he is really talented

Thought act extremely dated and saw his mouth move from the start.

anewme

Now, this is s knife edge act.

I'm jealous of her figure!!

gmisk

Lost voice guy was kind of poor tbh...similar jokes from when he was on it before

gmisk

Also one other really annoying thing....what the hell is with the obsession with the songs from the greatest showman?!? Has Simon cowell got one CD?!

Having said that the Asia's got talent couple were very good

gmisk

Mersey girl getting through is kind of a joke...100% nothing to do with the act why they got through

anewme

The Mersey girls had more going for them than the dodgy ventriloquist in all fairness.

gmisk

anewme wrote: »

The Mersey girls had more going for them than the dodgy ventriloquist in all fairness.

I personally would have picked him even over them...but I thought the Acrobat act and deadly games were much better

skipper_G

That dog act was flipping great

Posy

The dog act was brilliant.

I thought Mersey Girls were just pure sob story, thought the ventriloquist and lost voice guy were both great, and much better!

fritzelly

Didn't think Lost Voice Guy was as good as I remember him
Mersey girls were not that good - pure sympathy vote
Thought Jai wasn't that good either

The dogs were great

Loughc

skipper_G wrote: »

That dog act was flipping great

It was so good! I nearly died at the end with the conga line.

skipper_G

Loughc wrote: »

It was so good! I nearly died at the end with the conga line.

I know right! I've seen dogs before, I've seen a conga before, but I have NEVER SEEN dogs do a conga :eek:
And the thing is, somebody might read that and think, 'oh dogs, they probably had 3, big whoop'. It was 8 dogs, 8! Best act I've ever seen on that show

gmisk

skipper_G wrote: »

I know right! I've seen dogs before, I've seen a conga before, but I have NEVER SEEN dogs do a conga :eek:
And the thing is, somebody might read that and think, 'oh dogs, they probably had 3, big whoop'. It was 8 dogs, 8! Best act I've ever seen on that show

There was a dog act on americas got talent which was even better IMO (it involved these little white fluffy dogs and a father and son I think) but the german one was fantastic as well.

RobertKK

I hate military acts in BGT, especially if in uniform.

RobertKK

That dance act was incredible.

RobertKK

DJ act did nothing for me.

callaway92

Thought that Lebanese dance act was unreal.

Young DJ literally didn’t do much other than be cute

anewme

The dancers deserve the golden buzzer. What a lady.

Shes better legs than me too unfortunately.

RobertKK

The dance acts tonight have easily being the very best tonight. I approve of the golden buzzer.

RobertKK

I fear they put the magician through based on what he was wearing and representing, rather than those dancers from the Middle East, which would be a very bad decision.