Okay so last week (not for the first time in Strictly history) we had two of the better dancers in the dance off. Yes it's a shame that one of them has to go when they're good to watch but this is the nature of tv of the noughties when phone votes control the direction of shows.
What hacks me off is the judges have a whinge about who's in the dance off and how it's a 'travesty'. No it's not. It's the general public and this is what happens when you let us grubby little people have our say in what happens. The judges would probably love it if it was down to them only, but then it would be in no way as entertaining. Results more shocking than this have happened before we had the dance off format introduced to try and give the judges a bit more power.
I want Jade and Ian to win, but it's pretty unusual when the people I want to win actually do. I don't think they'll win it because they're not so popular as all the soap 'stars' but I'm not really complaining, I accept this is how the show works and it's more of an entertainment show than an actual dance contest, regardless of what the judges would like to think!
Thankfully with the demise of Big Brother in the near future, we've reached the peak of the reality/phone in tv show craze of the last decade. I don't remember being angry or upset that I didn't get a say in what happened in tv shows of my youth. I could also do without the life story of some reality show contestants; this is why I can't stand to watch X-factor.
While viewer interaction can really add to some shows I think it's become too prolific and like charity fatigue, now we risk phone-in tv fatigue where we no longer care about the contestants.
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