Susan Boyle: When Media goes bad. The Phenomenon of Reality T.V. Shows

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The Phenomenon of Reality T.V. Shows

 

 Where did it all start?

 It all started with a 15 minute broadcast on Radio Luxemburg, Radio Lyon and Radio Normandy, the year was 1938. It was a talent show called `The Carroll Levis Discoveries`. It was recorded at the Odeon Leicester Square and sponsored by Quaker Oats. It was backed up by Van Dam and his Orchestra, the show was hosted by Canadian Carroll Levis. After the war Levis was snapped up by BBC radio, which then started broadcasting the show in the 1950s. Levis also went to Ireland, Scotland and Wales to discover talent, my own mother Estelle Lawless was discovered by Levis as a singer. Alas, my grandfather wouldn’t sign the release form so mum never got her big break. The concept was then taken over for T.V. by another Canadian Hughie Green; he made `Opportunity Knocks` a household name. Almost every winner of the show made a good living out of it, and it changed their lives for the better. I say many of them, because there were some people who couldn’t handle the shock of becoming a star overnight. Child singer Lena Zavaroni won the nations hearts in 1974 when she belted out the song `Ma, he’s making eyes at me`; Lena was just 10 years old. She went onto great fame in America, singing with Sinatra and Lucy Ball, and she appeared on every major talk show in the U.S. She even performed at The White House for President Gerald Ford. Lena Zavaroni died from Anorexia Nervosa at the age of 35, she was on every show in the U.K. from the Les Dawson Show (who was also discovered by Hughie Green) to the Morecombe and Wise show, as well as topping the album charts at 10, and becoming the youngest star to appear on Top of the Tops. Lena once blamed her anorexia on her fame saying; “the pressure of stardom at such a young age, made me constantly aware that I had to keep my weight down so I could fit into all those expensive costumes”.

            From Opportunity Knocks the public got a hunger for shows that gave ordinary people a chance to show off their talents, and find instant fame. New Faces was another show that discovered people like Jim Davidson and Lenny Henry, who both handled their fame well. It seems though that after some 70 odd years nothing has been learned from these shows, by that I mean the way the producers of these shows handle the aftercare of their contestants….

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