Grossly Unfair
Am I the only one to think that it is grossly unfair that Layton Williams was invited on to Strictly Come Dancing? Undoubtedly Layton has a talent for dancing but that is down to the fact that he is a trained professional dancer having appeared in many shows such as Billie Elliot, The Car Man and Hairspray to name but three. Whilst Strictly is predominantly ballroom and Latin there is a great deal of skills overlap with ballet, street-dance and show dancing so he has a big head start on all the other competitors. Should he win Strictly, (and I really hope he doesn't for the above reason), in my eyes it will be whoever is runner-up that is the real winner.
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I thought exactly the same when Paul Daniel’s wife, Debbie McGee, was a participant. She too was a trained dancer from a young age and preformed in various professional dance related employment throughout her life prior to Strictly.
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Probably a minority view, I accept, but I think it's grossly unfair that this dross is inflicted on the Great British viewing public year after year!
It was ok when it started, tied in with Children in Need, but now it is just a money-spinner for the Beeb, and the minor celebrities involved. The predictable comments from the judges ("the best group we've ever had", "you've improved so much since last week" etc) and the staged "jollity" of fellow contestants as the "dancers" make their way up to face that awful woman with the fringe is just dire.
But the one thing it has got going for it is that it doesn't involve the dreadful Ant and Dic duo!
(Just off to "pickle my walnuts" and have a lie down, now!
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Most actors/TV performers, if they go in via places like RADA, Theatre Groups, etc…. have some form of dance during their training, it’s one of the basic skills as it helps with poise, timing, confidence etc…… some of course go on to specialise, others it’s only a background skill. Lots of sports people do dance in some form as well, again it helps with timing, balance etc….Louis Smith, Gymnast beat Kimberley Walsh back in 2013. Both had extensive dance related training, as did the other finalist whose name I can’t recall.
I haven’t watched Strictly since Louis Smith won, but I think that some of it is related to just how much the contestants progress each week as well as actual skills, so you might get a complete non dancer doing well if they have a natural rhythm and come on literally in leaps and bounds😁0 -
We are in your minority M, most stuff offered, and repeated endlessly via all sorts of channels, is pretty dire. (Solace is to be found in some of the specially commissioned stuff that occasionally comes up away from the main channels.)
It’s cheap TV making, fodder for the bored masses. Hopefully without anything controversial or discriminatory to incense anyone. 🥱
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I admire the skills of the musicians who have to play the arrangements of the selected tunes. They play the great tunes and the obscure ones with equal dexterity.
It's been a bit awkward juggling watching it with the RWC though 😂😂😂
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Another +1 in the I don't care camp.
It's not reality or the outcome or winner will not affect the real world in nay way.
it's a tv show who's aims are to entertain, which for many it obviously does although I can't imagine how or why (but that's just my view and I'm sure things I watch won't be entertaining for other), and to make money for the company producing it.
I suspect it's the latter aim that means they will use any 'tactic' or personality to get people to watch it.
Good thing there's an off button and/or other choices.
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+1 for not caring about the show, but annoyed that it occupies such a large slice of prime time tv.
Colin
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I feel like that about football😕.
No doubt we all have likes and dislikes.
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"It's been a bit awkward juggling watching it with the RWC though"
agree, and even more annoying on a Sunday evening when they try to trick us into thinking that the results programme is live when in fact it was all shot at the Saturday night show
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Strictly is very very popular, hence its broadcast slot and all the other programmes around the results. I only watched the one full series, mainly because I was on holiday with my parents in 2013, and it featured a few of the 2012 Olympians such as Louis Smith and Victoria Pendleton. I enjoyed it enough to tune in each week after, but had predicted Louis Smith would win, given his huge popularity at the time and his superb athleticism, grace and improvement. Didn’t like the judging format though.
I’ve never seen BGT, X Factor, The Voice, The Masked Singer at all. Not a fan of Simon Cowell’s genre. Some initially winning formats seem to be flogged to death. I can recall growing up with Opportunity Knocks and one or two other such programmes, they launched some really good careers.
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I also don't like football, or rugby, cricket, tennis, in fact most sports, opera, musicals, religion, politics, reality tv shows. I'm a boring old fart.
Oh, and the news depresses me.
Colin
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I like the Clark Gable attitude🤣👍
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