Chart Throb
Ben Elton is about to put the “ real” back into Reality TV in his biting satire of one of today’ s most popular cultural phenomena — the TV talent 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...
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Ben Elton is about to put the “ real” back into Reality TV in his biting satire of one of today’ s most popular cultural phenomena — the TV talent 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 he sits smugly in judgment on 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
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552773775 (0552773778)
Publish date: June 1st 2007
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Chart Throb is very much like Dead Famous (also by Ben Elton) in that it takes a reality TV phenomenon to its logical extreme. In Dead Famous "Big Brother" came under scrutiny - here it is "X-Factor" and that ilk. Just like while reading Dead Famous I was kept fascinated throughout the book, could h...
I love real people fiction, I really do. HRH Prince Charles is simply the star. Elton is bitter and delightful; his formula works and he doesn't try to muck with it.
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