Chart Throb
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 in judgement upon the Mingers, Clingers and Blingers whom he has...
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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 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 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.
źródło opisu: Black Swan, 2007
źródło okładki: http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/catalog/results.htm
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780552773775
Publish date: 4 czerwca 2007
Publisher: Black Swan
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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