The conversation: Have TV talent shows had it?

Susanna Rustin @ MediaGuardian - Television - on 23/3/12
As the BBC Loading... launches The Voice, host Reggie Yates Loading... insists it's different to other TV singing contests, while veteran DJ Paul Gambaccini Loading... argues that the format is deadTonight the BBC's new singing contest TheVoice goes head to head with Simon Cowell Loading... 's Britain's Got Talent on ITV. Veteran DJ Paul Gambaccini – aka The Professor of Pop – believes the format has run its course, while The Voice pres...
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Summary

As the BBC launches The Voice, host Reggie Yates insists it's different to other TV singing contests, while veteran DJ Paul Gambaccini argues that the format is dead.

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Simon Cowell, Reggie Yates, Guardian Media Group, BBC, Paul Gambaccini, American Idol, Adele, Simon Fuller, Bayard Rustin, Michael Barrymore, Christina Aguilera, Universal Music Group, Frank Sinatra, Adam Levine, Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Gladys Knight

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