Sunday, June 3, 2007

Simon Cowell to launch new Saturday night talent show...

News reaches us that Simon Cowell is to launch yet another Saturday night talent show. Britain’s Got Talent is a talent show that is based on the postwar holiday camp / Butlins tradition. Unlike his Pop Idol series, anyone can enter, it will be competition for allcomers. Simon will be alongside fellow judges Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden.

Apparently Cowell remains a fan of the end-of-pier comedy acts and in an inteview with the Sunday Times Simon says “Well, I’ve always been a big fan of entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s, to me, that was the absolute pinnacle. There was a kind of naivety in those days that I enjoy. We went through a phase in the 1990s when we became incredibly cynical, and I didn’t like that. Now we’re back on track, because I don’t think tastes change.”

The show starts next Saturday on ITV.

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