Your A Star is back...why?

ruskin

Watching the tv there, I saw ads for the Your a Star auditions. Is it just me, but does anyone else wonder for what possible reason rte are bringing back this trash? The basic concept of the show is to find a talented singing act and give them a successful break, right? Well then why cant the show ever come close to serving its purpose? Can anyone here remember anyone who won your a star? Simon Cowell remarked recently that if the xfactor did not find a big star at the end of the year, then it would be pointless. This doesnt bother the your a star bosses who seem content to feed us this tripe for another year at least. And why do people even audition for this crap, as i am sure they all know that even if they win the competition, they will almost certainly dissapear into oblivion?

godtabh

ruskin wrote:

Watching the tv there, I saw ads for the Your a Star auditions. Is it just me, but does anyone else wonder for what possible reason rte are bringing back this trash? The basic concept of the show is to find a talented singing act and give them a successful break, right? Well then why cant the show ever come close to serving its purpose? Can anyone here remember anyone who won your a star? Simon Cowell remarked recently that if the xfactor did not find a big star at the end of the year, then it would be pointless. This doesnt bother the your a star bosses who seem content to feed us this tripe for another year at least. And why do people even audition for this crap, as i am sure they all know that even if they win the competition, they will almost certainly dissapear into oblivion?

Its popular. You may not like it but countless numbers of people do. RTE wouldnt make it again if the ratings were crap

Aoife9

Have to agree with OP I think it's gone well past it's sell by date I certainly won't be watchin.

SprostonGreen

Its car crash tv.

You watch and see some innocent young one singing badly and continually making to the next round. Then again that band that came second last year; 21 demands were quite good.

Autumnal/Winter viewing.

Dennis the Stone

Plus RTE and the phone companies make a lot of money from the voting.

Anybody who is serious about making it and has genuine talent, I can't for the life of me see why they would go on You're a Star. They should try to make a career for themselves on their own terms

ruskin

I think any real musicians will agreed that success comes from years of playing small venues, working hard and having patience. All the greatest acts in history know this. Why the hell is Amanda Brunker a judge this year??

Wheels

ruskin wrote:

I think any real musicians will agreed that success comes from years of playing small venues, working hard and having patience. All the greatest acts in history know this. Why the hell is Amanda Brunker a judge this year??

She's not. Michelle Heaton from Liberty X is. It's clearly still some what popular to warrant yet another season. What is it now? Year 5? Granted it's not fantastic but it's better then some of the other dredge they put on.

Dennis the Stone

it's the same bloody thing every year. and at the end of it, the winner disappears into obscurity again. So all the hype about voting and new acts is irritating. there's no incentive to get caught up in it, because you know that it's not going to lead to anyhting

Our man in Havana

RTÉ and Eircom are the winners everytime.

Utopia Parkway

ruskin wrote:

Watching the tv there, I saw ads for the Your a Star auditions. Is it just me, but does anyone else wonder for what possible reason rte are bringing back this trash? The basic concept of the show is to find a talented singing act and give them a successful break, right? Well then why cant the show ever come close to serving its purpose? Can anyone here remember anyone who won your a star? Simon Cowell remarked recently that if the xfactor did not find a big star at the end of the year, then it would be pointless. This doesnt bother the your a star bosses who seem content to feed us this tripe for another year at least. And why do people even audition for this crap, as i am sure they all know that even if they win the competition, they will almost certainly dissapear into oblivion?

It's a load of bobbins really. Haven't watched it with any regularity since the Nadine Coyle series.

Ireland is a small country. They ran out of decent acts by the end of the 2nd series.

RTE make a killing from getting teenagers to vote though.

Wheels

Utopia Parkway wrote:

It's a load of bobbins really. Haven't watched it with any regularity since the Nadine Coyle series.

Ireland is a small country. They ran out of decent acts by the end of the 2nd series.

RTE make a killing from getting teenagers to vote though.

Wasn't Nadine Coyle on popstars?

Mr.Nice Guy

Anything involving Brendan O'Connor is bound to be a piece of sh*t. I've never watched.

Cabaal

Utopia Parkway wrote:

RTE make a killing from getting teenagers to vote though.

and this is truly the only reason why they're still showing it

clg23

Its simple if people stopped watching and stopped voting in huge numbers it would be cancelled. With advertising revenue and the money the make from people voting it is not likely the show will be cancelled even if the quality of the acts deteriorates even further.

Boggers love it though and therefore I can see it being a regular fixture over the next few years...

Sandwich

ruskin wrote:

The basic concept of the show is to find a talented singing act and give them a successful break, right?

Wrong.
The basic concept of the show is to have an 'ordinary folk', reality show with human interest and a competitive element. Such shows attract viewers with low intelligence, poor education and not a lot better to do with their time.
There are a lot of those people out there, and so a lot of advertising revenue to be made out of them tuning in to a show that is also cheap, easy to produce and as a well tried formula requires no creativity what so ever from RTE.

You could see it as:
- a laudable revenue raising method by RTE to fund its higher quality programmes
- RTE taking its public service broadcasting responsibilities seriously and catering to all tastes,however low
- exploitation of those who dont know any better than to tune in to such mind numbing 'entertainment'.

tinkerbell

Wheels wrote:

Wasn't Nadine Coyle on popstars?

Yep Nadine was on Popstars, completely different to You're A Star!

I've never watched it but a certain contestant a year or two ago was going around the schools promoting themselves trying to get votes, being really nice and singing loads of songs. Then when that contestant won the show and went back to a particular school refused point blank to sing for the kids. Totally different attitude once that person had won. Ungrateful! Didn't give a **** about the fans after they'd won it!

Oh and the show is absolute rubbish anyway. It's just pathetic and as for those judges would they ever get a life. They are trying to do American Idol / X Factor / Pop Idol and it just does not work! It really really doesn't. It's embarrassing actually

moe_sizlak

your a star like the x factor is at the end of the day a tv show and its makers RTE keep reproducing it as its a profitable product
who wins is irrelevant , the guy that won earlier this year won because he had an almost politcal voting machine campaign behind him
its not hard to build such a campaign in a country like ireland , were very small and even more parochial so if you stick a photo with a vote sign up in enough corner shops or cattle marts , the results are pretty guarenteed , this is one of the reasons why acts from dublin do so poorly , dubs are not as loyal to there own as culchies are and obviously a singer cant achieve voting support the length and breadth of dublin like someone from offaly can

BTW , on a slightly different note , you know when the freaks who cant sing turn up in front of the judges on the x factor and simon cowell and louis walsh lament at why they decided to audition when they clearly cant sing and how its the parents fault for encouraging them , well did you know that every one of those freaks have been put through 2 previous rounds , rounds that we do not see and are in front of producers the previous day so its not wonder theese people get such a shock having been led to believe that they are good enough to have progressed beyond the very 1st audition
theese people who are clearly not the full shilling are being exploited in a very unpleasant way if you aske me and it is the height of dishonesty for cowell to raise his eyes to heaven when they walk through his door as he knows damm well that they have been put through 2 previouis rounds
you may wonder how i know this , i have a close relative who has been thorugh the process and this is exactly what happens
they put through the very best and the very worst and they also have a quota , if the next pavarotti happens so walk in when the quota is full at auditons , hes turned away ,
as i said earlier , its irrelevant who wins theese shows , that leon lewis was not as good as someone who didnt even make it passed the producers is of no concern to ITV

Mossy Monk

I don't understand what people are complaining about. Don't watch it if you aren't interested.

grumpytrousers

Sandwich wrote:

Such shows attract viewers with low intelligence, poor education and not a lot better to do with their time.

Aye, but those kinds of people aren't the dream demographic that advertisers want; the dream demographic is ABC1s with plenty of disposable income so my guess is, contrary to what I'd *like* to think, that the people watching are better educated then you'd think...