Tuesday, October 26, 2010

MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC SHOW: While Fox seems committed to making Idol even more populist and tween/Bieber-driven and NBC is happy with America's Got Talent as something of a mid-market affair centering on "she can actually sing!" Susan Boyle-type scenarios, there's arguably an upscale talent show niche out there, and according to EW, Bravo is going there, with some interesting twists:
  • All songs will be original and will have to cover a wide range of genres, "everything from dance tracks to love ballads."
  • No viewer voting--like Bravo's other reality competition shows, elimination will be entirely judge-based. No Sanjayas.
  • Your head judge? Kara DioGuardi (filling the Tom Collichio role, it seems). Filling the Padma Lakshmi/Heidi Klum host/judge role will be Jewel. Remaining judges will apparently be a rotating cast of famous folks.
Certainly, this is more interesting and challenging than Idol, and certainly the revised Idol where contestants can stay in their comfort zone for the entire season, but I'm concerned it might be almost too hard--"you have 4 hours--write and perform a country song" seems even harder than "you have 2 hours and $200 at Gristedes to make a dress."
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