Ben Elton is about to put the " real" back into Reality TV in his bitingsatire of one of today' s most popular cultural phenomena — the TVtalent show. 95,000 hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that' s Colin Simms, the genius behind the show. Colin always wins, because Colin writes the rules. But this year, as hesits smugly in judgment on the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he haspre-selected in his carefully scripted " search" for a star, he has noidea that the rules are chang..ing. The " real" is about to be put back into" reality" television, and Colin and his fellow judges (the nation' sfavourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factorsthemselves. From the best-selling author of The First Casualty, Popcorn, and DeadFamous comes Chart Throb. One winner. A whole bunch of losers.