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Bias towards contestants
Over the past two weeks I've seen more bias towards/against certain contestants.
Last week they put alot of effort into to making Sharon Davis look bad. Also, for the first time, Christopher Deen said that he thought a contestant should have been in the skate off (I believe it was Emily). Janye and Chris have always been postive about contestants, so I don't understand why the sudden bad-mouthing. It was almost like sending a message to vote these contestants out. Also this week there was over the top "pimping" for Mikey. Even after he performed the producers scrambled to find a clip of Mikey falling and getting injured. Never before have I seen producers trying sooooo hard to get sympathy votes for a contestant. It was like sending a message to "please save this contestant over the others". Then they kept giving updates that Mikey was injured and getting treatment from the physio. Ice skaters (and celeb contestants) get injured all the time but the producers don't blab on and on repeatedly about it. Contestants should be treated equality and the public vote should be based on their performaces not extenal "pimping" or "villifying" from TPTB. |
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I think you're reading too much into things.
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Chris didn't say Emily should have been in the skate off he said he thought she would be - totally different.
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Over the past two weeks I've seen more bias towards/against certain contestants.
Last week they put alot of effort into to making Sharon Davis look bad. Also, for the first time, Christopher Deen said that he thought a contestant should have been in the skate off (I believe it was Emily). Janye and Chris have always been postive about contestants, so I don't understand why the sudden bad-mouthing. It was almost like sending a message to vote these contestants out. Also this week there was over the top "pimping" for Mikey. Even after he performed the producers scrambled to find a clip of Mikey falling and getting injured. Never before have I seen producers trying sooooo hard to get sympathy votes for a contestant. It was like sending a message to "please save this contestant over the others". Then they kept giving updates that Mikey was injured and getting treatment from the physio. Ice skaters (and celeb contestants) get injured all the time but the producers don't blab on and on repeatedly about it. Contestants should be treated equality and the public vote should be based on their performaces not extenal "pimping" or "villifying" from TPTB.
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I fully agree with everything you said.
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Totally agree; how many times did we have to hear about Mikey?
He's just not up to the others standards. Basically in a word he is c***! |
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Totally agree; how many times did we have to hear about Mikey?
He's just not up to the others standards. Basically in a word he is c***! |
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It's an entertainment show. The ITV producers had some dramatic footage of Mikey falling which they hadn't had time to include in his VT. Of course they showed it, falls and crashes are always thought to make good TV!
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It's an entertainment show. The ITV producers had some dramatic footage of Mikey falling which they hadn't had time to include in his VT. Of course they showed it, falls and crashes are always thought to make good TV!
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If you want to talk biasness what about Gary. In the last 3 weeks, hes been last twice and the other week last but one.
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Chris didn't say Emily should have been in the skate off he said he thought she would be - totally different.
Do they normally make comments like that? |
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It's an entertainment show. The ITV producers had some dramatic footage of Mikey falling which they hadn't had time to include in his VT. Of course they showed it, falls and crashes are always thought to make good TV!
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Yes, but they were also making a big deal about how the fall would have affected his performance. I don't think I've ever seem them trying so hard to help a contestant get votes before.
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Yes, but they were also making a big deal about how the fall would have affected his performance. I don't think I've ever seem them trying so hard to help a contestant get votes before.
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I think if anyone of them had fallen it would have been shown with all the sympathy blah blah. I really don't see that Mikey was treated any differently than say if Gary had fallen!
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Over the past two weeks I've seen more bias towards/against certain contestants.
Last week they put alot of effort into to making Sharon Davis look bad. Also, for the first time, Christopher Deen said that he thought a contestant should have been in the skate off (I believe it was Emily). Janye and Chris have always been postive about contestants, so I don't understand why the sudden bad-mouthing. It was almost like sending a message to vote these contestants out. Also this week there was over the top "pimping" for Mikey. Even after he performed the producers scrambled to find a clip of Mikey falling and getting injured. Never before have I seen producers trying sooooo hard to get sympathy votes for a contestant. It was like sending a message to "please save this contestant over the others". Then they kept giving updates that Mikey was injured and getting treatment from the physio. Ice skaters (and celeb contestants) get injured all the time but the producers don't blab on and on repeatedly about it. Contestants should be treated equality and the public vote should be based on their performaces not extenal "pimping" or "villifying" from TPTB. Not sure whats design and whats accidental otherwise - some people get randomly spun up and then down - Danny for example. |
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If you want to talk biasness what about Gary. In the last 3 weeks, hes been last twice and the other week last but one.
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Thats because they share the first middle and last slots around between the best people until they have been there too often when you fnd Hayley near the end or on earlier. If you look at the show so far how many times have Hayley, Daniella and Gary been last or next to last......
a) his ability was so far ahead of the rest it would have made them look worse than they were or b) quite a lot of people were watching principally to see what Ray would come up with that week and to put him on early would have meant they lost that reason for watching. Until this week, Hayley, Gary and Daniella have been the only celebs to score over 20 (apart from Mikey in wk 4) so they've shared the showy spots between them. Maybe Danny might be given one or other next week after this week's score? |
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That's true - and it was even more obvious last year if I remember. I don't think Ray ever went first and was near the end nearly every week, possibly because
a) his ability was so far ahead of the rest it would have made them look worse than they were or b) quite a lot of people were watching principally to see what Ray would come up with that week and to put him on early would have meant they lost that reason for watching. Until this week, Hayley, Gary and Daniella have been the only celebs to score over 20 (apart from Mikey in wk 4) so they've shared the showy spots between them. Maybe Danny might be given one or other next week after this week's score? Because it not, then what's the reaon for thinking people were watching just to see Ray? |
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Were the ratings unusually high that year?
Because it not, then what's the reaon for thinking people were watching just to see Ray? I do that quite a lot... ![]() I do remember a fair few posts saying that last year was no competition and the only reason they were watching was to see what Ray would do. Ray was certainly on late most weeks and I just threw the idea in as a possible reason for it. |
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Totally agree; how many times did we have to hear about Mikey?
He's just not up to the others standards. Basically in a word he is c***! A hellava lot less times than we heard about Pam bashing her chin when skating with D Seaman! And besides, it isn't Mikey's fault if the producers decided to show footage of his fall; they showed Kieron's as well. |
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