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Congratulations, you weren’t the first act voted off The X Factor New Zealand. Last week, most of you either ignored my advice or chose to let your nerves get the better of you so let me repeat myself again.  Exude confidence! I cannot emphasize this enough.

You have nothing to fear and the sooner you realise this, the better you will be as performing artists.  The audience that is in front of you at the studios on Sunday nights are there because they want you to entertain them.  They didn’t turn up with a desire to find fault with the way you perform, they turned up because they wanted to be entertained.

Entertain them!  If the audience is being entertained you can be assured that everyone at home will be seeing and hearing the reaction in the studio and will be wishing they were there experiencing the show live rather than on their own couches.  Continue reading »

Some may argue that it’s an unfair comparison but let’s look at the numbers for TV3′s The X Factor compared to TV One’s New Zealand’s Got Talent.

NZGT, which began in September, dominated Sunday nights for the 13 weeks it was on and was the highest rating show of 2012.  The average audience for the series was 839,209 viewers per episode.  However, the difference between the highest and lowest rating episodes was more than 270,000 viewers.

The X Factor has been averaging just over 400,000 viewers per episode, less than half of what NZGT managed.

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Go Girls dropped to its second lowest rating episode ever last night, only managing to clock up an average audience of 204,410 viewers.  In comparison, episode 4 of the last season drew 313,520 viewers.

What will be deeply concerning for TV2 is the fact that 58% of the lead in from My Kitchen Rules are abandoning the channel in the middle of prime time.

The fifth season of Go Girls has failed to return to pre season-five ratings, averaging nearly 30% fewer viewers than same period in season four.

Episode 4 of season five airs tonight at 9:00pm on TV2.

What do you make of the new season and new cast of Go Girls?

Marginal increase for Seven Sharp this week, up to an average audience per episode of 393,446 viewers, the second best week the show has had since launch.

Campbell Live dropped 7% on last week with an average audience of 311,192 viewers per episode.

Here is the updated graph:

Last night, Campbell Live beat Seven Sharp for the fifth time by 362,670 viewers on TV3 to TV One’s 351,800, a difference of 10,870

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They should get Jamie Ridge to be Dominic Bowden’s Khloe Kardashian. #xfactornz

— Caleb Griffioen (@calebgriffioen) May 20, 2013

Is Dominic Bowden manorexic? #eatapie #skinnybitch #xfactornz

— W Gee (@doubleyoujee) May 20, 2013

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You’d think that when recapping last night’s show you’d make sure you remembered to include everyone who performed.  Or was Whenua Patuwai just not that memorable?

Kiwi lad, Willy Moon, performed his single Yeah Yeah as the first non-competitor to perform on the X Factor stage.  It was decidedly average.

If you’re going to attend an X Factor live show, if you think the coolest place to be is the mosh pit, can you at least pretend like you’re having fun?  So far all I’ve seen are bored looking mannequins. Continue reading »

If you haven’t discovered The Civilian yet, you’re missing out.  Here is a sample of their latest outburst of genius.

TV3 accidentally airs final episode of X Factor

TV3 has been left apologising to its viewers today after a technical error resulted in the television channel broadcasting the final episode of popular musical talent show The X Factor New Zealand, months before it was meant to air.

The finale – which viewers now know will be guest hosted by Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker – revealed that slightly unshaven white guitar player Tom Batchelor would emerge victorious from the competition, and was briefly interrupted by an angry Neil Finn, who attempted to destroy the set.

“It was not my intention to kill everybody,” he later tweeted.

Tonight I attended the live recording of The X Factor.  Being in the audience of a live television show gives you a completely different perspective as your vision isn’t restricted to whichever camera the director wants you to see so watching the show back is like seeing an almost entirely different show.

The thing you notice the most is how big the stage is and just how little of it the camera captures.

It was great to see New Zealand produce a live show for television but someone needs to sit the producers down and give them a lesson in how to put together a gig set list.  There is a formula that works but tonight’s order was way off the mark. Continue reading »

I’ll put together my thoughts on the actual performances and the show itself in another post, but here are some of the things you didn’t see on TV.

The X Factor stage is much bigger than the NZ Idol one was.  The waiting area for the audience is also under cover! (For those of you who remember standing outside SPP in the middle of winter)

I sat next to the guys from TYP and Ruby Frost’s parents. Continue reading »