Tracey Donovan proved that talent can triumph over image when she won the popular vote on Sunday night. How refreshing.
Did the winning diva swear when she first walked on stage? I thought she did, and was rewarded by having her mic switched off. Perhaps I imagined it.
Channel Ten, on the other hand, proved that ratings and revenue can triumph over the expectations of the show's younger audience. How disappointing.
The final should have been a great TV night for my primary school age twin daughters. They'd followed the competition from the beginning and were keen to see it to the end. We were happy for them to stay up and watch to the advertised end time.
I suppose with the expected high ratings and advertising slots going for $50k for 30 seconds, it was inevitable that the thing would run overtime. But letting it go so far into the night did no favours to our kids or the thousands of others who struggled to stay awake to the end, or to those with tougher parents who made them go to bed before it finished.
In our case, Twin One gave up and went to bed; Twin Two barely made it to the end.
Memo to Ten's management: Start the thing at 6.30pm next year.
It was arse. They changed the schedule from finishing at 9:30pm to 10pm during the week. I set my VCR for 10:10 on a hunch. I won, the advertisers lost.
Yep -it was a crap show and the judges said it all when they were asked for one more comment by the two idiot comperes and they yelled 'Just get on with it'
Hooray for Casey and for all un-model like girls with talent out there. I do hope she doesn't regret winning now that the awful truth of the work load and the contractual agreement to sing 'that song' has kicked in. It was kinda cute when she had to ask what the first line was.
She's senstional - she had our vote