Last night on Channel 4, comedian Peter Kay mocked the reality comp genre in a one-shot made-for entitled (deep breath) "Britain’s Got The Pop Factor And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice," presented in a two-part "final performance" and "results show" on the same evening (separated by a doc on Kay) and with actors playing the contestants and Cat Deeley and former reality comp judges playing themselves as host and judges, respectively, along with a cameo from Paul McCartney. The show pulled C4's biggest non-"Big Brother" numbers of the year, but still got defeated in the ratings by the real thing--BBC1's "Strictly Come Dancing (With the Stars)" results show (and the "results show" came in second to a new episode of ITV's long-running detective show "A Touch of Frost"):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/13/tvratings-television Response seems to be decidedly mixed, with some critics enjoying the skewering of reality comp cliches and others finding it not funny enough (and I suspect that some people flipping across the dial looked at the show and said "Not another flippin' reality show! Feck this!" and changed channels). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
