Imagine Alesha is a big success - is this realistic? If we're gonna have a female winner on the panel, makes sense that we have a male one too?
Should Tom Chambers replace Len Goodman in Strictly 2011?
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In a word - NO! He has no experience apart from the dancing he did on Strictly. At least Alesha dances on stage to a certain extent.
Originally Posted by Gill P:
“ At least Alesha dances on stage to a certain extent.”
“ At least Alesha dances on stage to a certain extent.”
Well, she moves around a bit, and places arms and legs .......
Yes! Then by 2013 we will have got rid of Craig and Bruno too, and can have a celebrity panel of judges! We'll re-name the show Strictly Come Trying to Perform! Marks will be awarded to people who put in maximum effort and perform to the crowd, even if they leave out all the basic steps or just perform them all badly!
interesting comment about Len being a "man" and not getting the bullet! Is Alesha reading up on her tango as we speak?
Originally Posted by dazzyb:
“Sounds like me when i go out dancing and i am no professional!”
“Sounds like me when i go out dancing and i am no professional!
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Eminently qualified then by the sound of it. A new career could be on the card, stick by the phone as you could be getting a call from the SCD producers.
Originally Posted by katie_p:
“Yes! Then by 2013 we will have got rid of Craig and Bruno too, and can have a celebrity panel of judges! We'll re-name the show Strictly Come Trying to Perform! Marks will be awarded to people who put in maximum effort and perform to the crowd, even if they leave out all the basic steps or just perform them all badly!”
“Yes! Then by 2013 we will have got rid of Craig and Bruno too, and can have a celebrity panel of judges! We'll re-name the show Strictly Come Trying to Perform! Marks will be awarded to people who put in maximum effort and perform to the crowd, even if they leave out all the basic steps or just perform them all badly!”
Or alternatively, perhaps we could take the same approach as the producers of "My fair lady", where Audrey Hepburn mimed to someone else's singing.
We could have 4 aesthetically pleasing, personable judges. Then we just hide some experts under the judges' desk, and they could feed them the right lines.
Am I the only one who thinks thats a very good idea, infact what we could do is every year the winner of the previous year joins the panel and the person who has been on the panel the longest has to leave, this would ensure that the panel are all young and hip, which is what the BBC wants, remember no one under the age of 40 has won SCD anyway.
Originally Posted by baldbilluk:
“Am I the only one who thinks thats a very good idea, infact what we could do is every year the winner of the previous year joins the panel and the person who has been on the panel the longest has to leave, this would ensure that the panel are all young and hip, which is what the BBC wants, remember no one under the age of 40 has won SCD anyway.”
“Am I the only one who thinks thats a very good idea, infact what we could do is every year the winner of the previous year joins the panel and the person who has been on the panel the longest has to leave, this would ensure that the panel are all young and hip, which is what the BBC wants, remember no one under the age of 40 has won SCD anyway.”
I'm sure you're not the only one, but I doubt that would be a popular idea. The panel would be young and hip but they wouldn't have a clue what they were talking about!
By this system the current panel would be Darren Gough, Mark Ramprakash, Alesha Dixon and Tom Chambers. Their average age would be 35.
That's pushing "young" and practically shoving "hip" right off a cliff.
That's pushing "young" and practically shoving "hip" right off a cliff.
Originally Posted by Monkseal:
“By this system the current panel would be Darren Gough, Mark Ramprakash, Alesha Dixon and Tom Chambers. Their average age would be 35.
That's pushing "young" and practically shoving "hip" right off a cliff.”
“By this system the current panel would be Darren Gough, Mark Ramprakash, Alesha Dixon and Tom Chambers. Their average age would be 35.
That's pushing "young" and practically shoving "hip" right off a cliff.”
Compared to the average age now (with Arlene) which is approx 55 its young and hip!!!
It's younger, but it's certainly not hip. Bruno, Craig and Arlene all have (or had) more connection with current popular culture than two ex cricketers and one of the most middle-class human beings I've ever seen in my entire life (not that there's anything wrong with that). And Alesha's hardly "cutting edge".
Originally Posted by baldbilluk:
“Compared to the average age now (with Arlene) which is approx 55 its young and hip!!!”
“Compared to the average age now (with Arlene) which is approx 55 its young and hip!!!”
It doesn't work like that though does it? For young people either you're young and hip or you're not. There's no in-between.
(In fact my friend's 16 year old daughter has more respect for her grandmother than her mother.)
Originally Posted by Vivacious Lady:
“It doesn't work like that though does it? For young people either you're young and hip or you're not. There's no in-between. (In fact my friend's 16 year old daughter has more respect for her grandmother than her mother.)”
“It doesn't work like that though does it? For young people either you're young and hip or you're not. There's no in-between.
(In fact my friend's 16 year old daughter has more respect for her grandmother than her mother.)”
Not according to the BBC, its all youth,youth.youth!!!!
Not a marketing or media guru, nor a BBC employee but why would anyone want to make SCD young and hip?
Replacing the compere with a man half his age and with some edge, Daniel O'Donnell for example, would just alienate the children, land-locked parents and the blue rinse brigade surely?
Replacing the compere with a man half his age and with some edge, Daniel O'Donnell for example, would just alienate the children, land-locked parents and the blue rinse brigade surely?
Daniel O'Donnell has edge?
But, as to the title of this thread, my answer would be no, that would be daft, even dafter than Alesha replacing Arlene.
But, as to the title of this thread, my answer would be no, that would be daft, even dafter than Alesha replacing Arlene.
Originally Posted by dazzyb:
“Imagine Alesha is a big success - is this realistic? If we're gonna have a female winner on the panel, makes sense that we have a male one too?”
“Imagine Alesha is a big success - is this realistic? If we're gonna have a female winner on the panel, makes sense that we have a male one too?”
That indeed is the logic.
The problem is Alesha can't possibly bring in a yoof audience. Cheryl at least is in the current girlband - albeit it the one left when the bigger ones retired.
If they want younger viewers they need celebs they actually will know - but young celebs and particularly females don't turn out as they don't get votes from the older voters, undersucceed on the show, however good they are, and often are in work anyway.
If they took their logic further, Len could be replaced by someone who dances who is literally hip - like the people who have won the last 2 series of BGT.........
Erm...no...no he shouldn't 
If this were to happen, myself and another member of this forum may be forced into taking drastic action...
If this were to happen, myself and another member of this forum may be forced into taking drastic action...
I think the point of it being Alesha is that after the show she continued with a relatively succesful career in showbiz, I've not really seen or heard of any of the other winners besides Natasha Kaplinsky. Isnt she like the highest scoring or something?
Its sort of like Leona replacing Danni on XF imo.
Its sort of like Leona replacing Danni on XF imo.
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