STRICTLY DUMB DANCING v THE eXcess FACTOR ON COLIN HOLMES EASY LISTENING SHOW. +CARO EMERALD.

DELETED SCENE FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR...CARO EMERALD.

A popular album that's been in the charts for several months which fits into the easy listening sector with no problems.I will be playing some tracks from this album tonight on my show including the hit.A NIGHT LIKE THIS . Pleasant singing of new material in a laid-back way Caro has made an attractive CD. Some tracks have a latin feel but I would have appreciated her take on some standard or well known material. Listening to the album through can sound a little samey. One of those CDs that are popular but a good follow-up is essential. ***.

STRICTLY DUMB DANCING.

Last Saturdays show was high camp,poor Brucie jokes, tedious back story and an obvious three celebrities in trouble.There is an American version of this on some channel with Len and Bruno which is even more tedious and somehow...less exciting.Britain does in bigger with more of an event feel.....some would say non-event. Edwina was out with the public vote (surprise surprise) but then her dance was static and short with some table paraphinalia going on. The Sunday show really is poor as much as they try to hype up the ending and losing finalist. We had Will Young as guest singing artist. Why do the new young men try to sing in a key way above middle C with simpering resonance that appalls me. Joe McElderry's last single before CD CLASSIC called Ambition started off in a key no soprano has ever heard of.....but back to strictly.....It's all costumes and sound-bite judges and melodramatic professional dancers that one longs for the fast-forward on so many occasions. Is it better entertainment that The EXCESS FACTOR. Yes by a whisker.


THE eXcess FACTOR.

Apart from Matt Cardle it was Kareoke with as many dancers as they could stuff on the stage. Can we have a week with no dancers;I always feel they are there to distract us from the limitaions of the individual performers. Sadly the judges are keeping up with the usual cliches ( especially Louie. I could write his script) but I was amused when Gary Barlow bullied Louis into making sure he kept the singers in his last three....Oh yes....Simon Cowell and his twists.....He made the judges reject one of their choices immeadiately in the first show giving us four times the drama and tears. We are re-treading a familiar pattern and for interest there is an edgy prima donna, a too confident black prima donna,a high voiced singer who brushes his hair over his face wearing painted on brown trousers, another high-voiced camp singer, two groups of innifectual boy bands,and others I have forgotten. The only good thing about both of these high profile programmes (Strictly the other) as the weeks go by and the performers are voted off the length of the shows gets smaller, but I wouldn't bet on it. The BBC are bring us "THE VOICE" in the near future. I do hope they learn something from the programmes they are seeing now which sadly I would describe as "old hat". I know they are the highest ratings on TV but there's only one way to go now!