Reviving the talent show may have been one of the ratings triumphs of recent years, but I can't recall three of them battling for attention on the same night.
However, that's what happened on Saturday as the finals of Grease and Joseph went head to head, followed by Britain's Got Talent.
So which one did you watch? Personally, and despite costing twice as much to vote, I've always been in the Grease camp, but with a final that boiled down to whether the leads would be played by an ex-popstar (Anthony Kavanagh) and an ex-popstar's sister (Susan McFadden), it never really captured the public imagination.
In the end, Kav lost out to the matinee-idol looks of Danny Bayne, making for an attractive if uncharismatic pairing when the show opens in six weeks.
Joseph meanwhile, eeked the drama out to two shows on Saturday - performance and then results - before giving acrylic-haired Lee Mead a week less to prepare for his West End debut. Either way, both shows are now guaranteed healthy box office.
However, the problem was that the winners of both shows were patently obvious from around week two. After that it was just a matter of cramming in tears, guest stars and pregnant pauses to prevent the audience switching off for good. Nonetheless, it's hard to imagine we won't be looking at this in 10 years time and wondering how lame music, lamely performed, managed to attract so many viewers.
Britain's Got Talent meanwhile, was a slightly different proposition. Simon Cowell's latest offering focuses on finding a non-professional act to do a turn at on The Royal Variety Performance later this year. One suspects the Queen only attends the RVP because it's on her list of official duties.
ITV1 has chosen to cram the whole contest into nine days. And although calling Amanda Holden 'one of Britain's best loved actresses' was a bit much, the show's saving grace is its inability to spot the winner.
Currently, my vote goes to Damon Scott's rendition of Earthsong - with a monkey - but with break dancers, animal acts, a woman grinding her pelvis with a Black & Decker and a 70-year old rapper, it promises an intriguing public vote in the final next Sunday.
Of course, the bad news is that if this works, you can expect the same trick for other fallen spectacles like Eurovision and Miss World. And having now played an unwitting part in two reality shows (Great British Menu being the other) the Queen will surely need all her skills to avoid becoming a guest judge on The X-Factor. You have been warned, Ma'am!
