This annoys me every week, not just in week 1
Over the years, the amount of "hype" introduced into this programme has increased out of all proportion, in an effort, not to produce a better programme, but to beat anything shown on ITV on Saturday night.
Some of the best seats in the front row every week are given to favoured so called "celebrities," mostly those associated with the BBC, just so the director can give the viewers a brief glimpse of them.
The producers aren't bright enough to appreciate that many viewers will not be thinking "Oo! look who it is!"
More "For chrissakes, there's more seats given to the favoured few, that could have gone to a real fan of the show." But that's the BBC all over. They think people who watch this show want to see these freeloaders each week.
You can bet none of them won the seat in the lottery. Kara Tointon made the point that before the year she was a contestant, she managed to get a seat for most weeks. I don't s'ppose either being a present or past actor in Eastenders, was an advantage?
You can't blame these personalities using any opportunity in a show with 10M viewers to draw some attention to themselves. But let no one believe that everything they see, or more likely are deliberately shown, has not got an element of that in it.
I always record this show as there's not much that they can ruin with the dancing apart from choosing some rubbish music on occasions, so I mostly watch that, which I enjoy. I skip over a lot of the hype.
Over the years, the amount of "hype" introduced into this programme has increased out of all proportion, in an effort, not to produce a better programme, but to beat anything shown on ITV on Saturday night.
Some of the best seats in the front row every week are given to favoured so called "celebrities," mostly those associated with the BBC, just so the director can give the viewers a brief glimpse of them.
The producers aren't bright enough to appreciate that many viewers will not be thinking "Oo! look who it is!"
More "For chrissakes, there's more seats given to the favoured few, that could have gone to a real fan of the show." But that's the BBC all over. They think people who watch this show want to see these freeloaders each week.
You can bet none of them won the seat in the lottery. Kara Tointon made the point that before the year she was a contestant, she managed to get a seat for most weeks. I don't s'ppose either being a present or past actor in Eastenders, was an advantage?
You can't blame these personalities using any opportunity in a show with 10M viewers to draw some attention to themselves. But let no one believe that everything they see, or more likely are deliberately shown, has not got an element of that in it.
I always record this show as there's not much that they can ruin with the dancing apart from choosing some rubbish music on occasions, so I mostly watch that, which I enjoy. I skip over a lot of the hype.




