Originally Posted by soulmate61:
“In 2003 Fenia Vardanis (since departed from the BBC) created Strictly as a happy show with herself and production team in the driving seat.
After 6 years of continuous employment with salary rise whenever they felt like it, the 4 judges now believe they own the show and can tell 10 million viewers what to do. The SCD management team meanwhile enjoyed a siesta oblivious to audience feedback, allowing the show to coast along on auto-pilot, not unlike financial regulators woken up by credit crunch.”
Spot on soulmate,if the judges had been reined in earlier the bad feeling that now surrounds this series, would never have occurred,but yet again a BBC production team allowed this to happen,and I suspect like many here this is done in the name of ratings,much like Brand/Ross.
The Beeb does appear to be going through a phase where "ratings rule",and at any cost it would seem.
I should imagine the judges are encouraged to cause as much controversy as possible thereby ensuring weekly headlines for the show,but they crossed the line this year when it became personal.
Christine I would love to see lift that glitter ball with Matthew,yes contrary to what some posts infer she can dance,and for a total novice I think she's been exceptional, she had a bad week last week,the week before was beautiful.
Everyone of the remaining couples have had bad weeks ,some quite a few, but still been overmarked ,but all 5 deserve their place,but Christine does epitomise what Strictly is all about ,the enjoyment and fun in dancing,not a desperation to win ,where you lose focus and forget this is light entertainment,and that the prize is only a plastic glitter ball.
Ellie