James Masterton
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X Factor 2009 – Week 7 (Results)
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The British public appear to be getting more cynical in their old age. What else could explain the increasing number of hits this site is recording from people searching the answer to the question “is the X Factor results show recorded?” The truth of the matter is that yes, some of it is, although [...]
X Factor 2009 – Week 7 (Performances)
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Yes, you read that correctly. We are at Week 7 of this epic already, and as Dermot notes in his opening link, how time flies. Naturally this only serves to hammer home some hard truths: the final is just 3 weeks away, it is nearly Christmas, and oh yes, many of the better singers in the competition [...]
X Factor 2009 – Week 6 (Results)
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Answer there came – one. Am pleased to confirm the technical term for the “emergency wide shot of extreme panic” used by TV directors when something unexpected happens:
This man used to direct live Saturday morning television, so he should know.
Tonight: Queen! Shakira! The thing that henceforth [...]
X Factor 2009 – Week 6 (Performances)
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I told you we hadn’t heard the last of it.
The bizarre end to last week’s result show inevitably prompted a flurry of column inches and wild conspiracy theories as to Simon Cowell’s motives in not binning the twins at the first opportunity he was given and as a result sending home someone who [...]
X Factor 2009 – Week 5 (Results)
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“Well hellllloooo”. *makes set explode*
That’s my Dermot O’Leary impression. Good isn’t it? Results show five is upon us, and if I tell you that this turns out to be the most dramatic one yet, I’m not spoiling too much of the surprise surely.
We start with the obligatory group performance, and [...]
X Factor 2009 – Week 5 (Performances)
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Before we start this week, we interrupt your normal X Factor Blog schedule to bring you a gratuitous moment of reality TV celeb schmoozing on the part of the author.
There, that feels better. Sorry for the interruption.
This week the obsession with discovering just who has topped the telephone [...]
Champagne And Roses
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My first ever role when I joined talkSPORT in the summer of 2002 was being the Saturday evening guy. On the one hand it was because this was the awkward dead slot which only the most desperate no-life radio loser would want to work, but also because at the time that slot was home to “Talk Wrestling [...]
Ten Years Of Fun
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How many times have you sat in the pub, regaling your friends with anecdotes about your colleagues and the strange antics they get up to, only for someone to say “you could write a book about all that”? Maybe not so much if you work for an undertakers I guess, but for a radio station such stories [...]
X Factor 2009 – Week 4 (Results)
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Is it Sunday night already? What on earth happened to the weekend? If we must then, welcome along then to results night 4 where, as we are reliably informed, nine become eight. Coming up, yet another 2008 alumnus gets to plug their new record, Bon “couldn’t be arsed to turn up last night” Jovi get [...]
X Factor 2009 – Week 4 (Performances)
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There is a well known American website called votefortheworst.com which by its own admission devotes its time to attempting to ruin Stateside talent shows such as American and Canadian Idol. Exploiting the fact that telephone voting over there is free and subsidised by the corporate sponsors of the [...]
