SA has the talent for home-grown shows
SOUTH Africans have talent and there are quite a few on display on the small screen every week.
The formats of the talent search TV shows are definitely a tricky thing to pull off and success usually depends on a combination of factors.
There must be some kind of audience participation – people want to help choose the winner, and they also love a rags-to-riches tale.
It’s not easy in SA though, because the best talent show formats are the overseas imports made here with a local flavour. But occasionally you get a hit-making exception, like the Emo Adams show, It was born out of Emo’s social
WHAT’S MY NAME: MUHAMMAD ALI
Showmax media call for people to send him videos showing off their talents, including singing, dancing and stand-up comedy. Out of it the kykNET show was born and season one was a success.
This weekend the
showcase takes to the stage at Grandwest, Cape Town – a testament to the show’s success and all the talented acts who made the top 10 will be on stage.
Often in the haze of quickly buying the rights to an overseas talent show, TV execs forget that we have quite a good track record of talent shows.
The older generation might remember the hit a simple but effective talent show that was not only great to watch but
Directed by Black Reel winner Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali tells the boxing greats story in his own voice, painting a vivid picture of the man Sports Illustrated declared the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
This is a great way to relive all Ali’s fights, from the Thrilla In Manilla against Joe Frazier to the Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman – the world’s most-watched live television broadcast at the time – to his fight as a 38-year-old against his former sparring partner Larry Holmes, who wept after beating his idol on a technical knockout. But as thrilling as watching Ali float like a butterfly and sting like a bee is, the real joy of the documentary is listening to him talk.
HBO’s two-part documentary on the three-time heavyweight champion of the world was released first on Showmax in June 2019, just a month after its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
BAKE YOU RICH
Saturdays, TLC (DStv channel 135) 7:05pm.
Buddy Valastro is back and this time he wants to bake you rich.
The star of Cake Boss and one of America’s most renowned bakers is now offering aspiring pastry chefs produced some superstars.
It’s not that difficult to find the talent – it’s more difficult to believe in the formats that get them to the end goal, which is a career in the industry that started on the small screen.
This week the Top 10 will take to the stage and ultimately be whittled down to one winner.
History has proven that this show has a winning formula and the unsigned talent that graces its stage can use it as a springboard for a successful career.
No one doubts it has its place on the TV landscape – but wouldn’t it all be so much sweeter if the concept was born in SA? It’s time we take a chance on our TV talent and the people out there who have the ideas to make these shows. a chance to have their unique and delicious creations sold at his shop in his newest series – Bake You Rich.
Each episode in the four-part series follows four aspiring pastry chefs as they compete in the factory kitchen, where they are not only tested on the deliciousness of their food, but their business skills too. It gets even hotter in the kitchen as the bakers strive to impress Buddy and his trusty panel of rotating judges including; Chad Durkin, Erin McGinn, Vincent Tubito and Buddy’s wife, Lisa Valastro.
It’s a tense journey to the top, as the judges must ultimately choose whose treats deserve to be sold at Buddy’s bakery. Which bakers will rise to the top and which ones will crumble?