Chart Throb
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest.
Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner.
And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.
Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted 'search' for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing. The 'real' is about to be put back into 'reality' television and Calvin and his fellow judges (the nation's favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves.
Ben Elton, author of Popcorn and Dead Famous returns to blistering comic satire with a savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows.
Chart Throb. One winner. A whole bunch of losers.
Customer Reviews
Never watch reality tv again
Ben tells all the sordid secrets of supposedly fair competition in reality TV. You will not be able to stop thinking about certain shows or individuals and go "that's what they did to X". But the book is more than that, ideas and provocations appear through out.
Elton has a very readable style and has always appealed to my sense of humour.