The winter nights have drawn in, it's Saturday night, you're sat at home and the TV choice for much of the population is Strictly Come Dancing or The X Factor. As the shows near their conclusions (Can you wait? Do you care?) the BBC and ITV are lining up their replacements. Just the Two of Us is the offering being prepared by the BBC – a singing version of Strictly Come Dancing. And just to narrow down our viewing options even further ITV are now developing yet another Simon Cowell show, Star Duets, which sounds remarkably like, well, a singing version of Strictly Come Dancing.
Is there no end to the prime time TV opportunities for the annoying and the talentless? And that's just Simon Cowell. Its bad enough watching desperate-to-be-famous-nobodies murdering terrible tunes in front of the 3 wicked witches of ITV. But all those so-called celebrities parading their inability in sing or dance.
It's even more ironic that the channels are creating such looky-likey shows, given that Cowell has just settled a long-running legal battle with the other Simon, Fuller, over who owned what in the small world of reality pop shows. This is also the same Cowell who is launching a show in the US called Million Dollar Idea. Despite there already being a show called Million Dollar Idea.
Has TV run out of ideas? Will Simon Cowell ever leave us in peace? Will my wife and I ever sit in the same room watching the television again?
