On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> Six cycles in with a seventh to start on Sept. 22, the NBC reality comp > has yet to find a superstar singer (unlike "Idol," with its two > unchallenged superstars Kelly and Carrie and several others who are doing > better than OK), but it's sure made its panel of "coaches" more famous than > they already were--this Billboard cover story has Adam Levine mentioning > that his band Maroon 5 was starting to skid before the show brought his > Douchiest Man Alive persona into millions of homes and Blake Shelton (who > probably wouldn't be hawking for Pizza Hut if not for the show) saying that > he'll stay with the show to the very end (although he and Levine, the keys > on the panel since Day 1, are most likely reupping cycle-by-cycle): > > > http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6251215/the-voice-billboard-cover-story-gwen-stefani-adam-levine-pharrell-williams-blake-shelton > <http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6251215/the-voice-billboard-cover-story-gwen-stefani-adam-levine-pharrell-williams-blake-shelton?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=biz_breakingnews&utm_campaign=Breaking%20News> > I guess I'm getting less cynical as I grow older. I should have realized the desired outcome of these shows is to showcase the judges, not the performers. It should have been obvious when Cowell and Seacrest's stocks rocketed up when Idol became a hit, but I missed it. In his book about the movies and their stars, Gods Like Us, Ty Burr points out the stroke of genius of early Hollywood. If they market the movie, its audience will dissipate as soon as the movie is off screens. But if they market the stars, their audience will go to all of their movies to watch them. The success or failure of these talent shows is based on whether viewers want to watch these judges season after season. The performers are incidental. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
