Awful Television Programs

[BluebottleFlyer]

"The X-Factor", aka us Brits' version of "American Idol". I don't see what's good about people auditioning and singing their hearts out for a million-quid record contract and being humiliated by egocentric judges (including Simon freaking Cowell) in front of the nation. And the end product is always the same: big, manufactured, schmaltzy pop ballad which goes on to be the big Christmas No. 1. Then the "lucky" winner, who will have been promised a glittering career, will be cast aside like rubbish before they know it, so they can just find another bunch of unlucky souls to humiliate. And what beats me is why loads of people are happy to waste their money voting for the winner, when they know it's all just to line the pockets of the record company/judges/management/whoever else. It's grade A trash.