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I hope that sign didn't cost $1 million

I have TiVO, so I tend to watch TV shows after everyone else has. Truth be told, I watch a lot of television shows. Too often, shows I like ends up getting canceled at the end of their first seasons or before. But that's not why I'm writing.

I watched the America's Got Talent finale', in which they awarded the $1m grand prize to Bianca Ryan, a cute little girl with a HUGE voice. It aired last week. I watched as Regis broke the final ten into two sides of five acts, and then dismissed one of the groups of five. Next, he called down two acts out of the remaining five and told them they were the runners-up, leaving the winner and two acts that didn't win anything. I thought this was about the stupidest way to go about it, and the ending was really, to quote my wife, "anticlimactic." I was fine with who had won, even though I voted for a different act. And they really spent a lot of time and effort making that "$1 Million" sign, don't ya think?

After the prize was awarded, Regis asked Bianca, "How do you feel?" She answered, then he asked a second and a third time, and she answered again. Then that was it! They ended the show right there! They really wasted a lot of time with their approach to building suspense (which with TiVO is mostly wasted anyway).

I still think At Last and All That both have a future doing what they did during the competition.

Labels: television

posted by Brett @ 4:44 PM