First look at contestants - Toni Warne

Why the empathy and sympathy for a bald woman that sounded like an average pub singer. Bald men have the pis* taken out of them, mainly by women, and are constantly called slap heads. There is an ad, for grass seed, at the moment with the wife telling the husband to seed the lawn ( so much for no job differentials ) then she slaps the top of his head and makes a snide remark about would it work anywhere else. Oh so funny, the fact that a supposedly intelligent woman would think you can plant grass seed into someone's head?

Ads are always demeaning men, I make a point of not buying those products.

Why is it funny if a man goes bald but not a woman?

I thought she was a slap-head who couldn't sing that good. She forced notes out to the point of shouting, that seems the modern indium, and the melodious notes were lost. Why sing when we have got use to people shouting and being called singers? Then there was the screamer and the Bowie wannabe. If this show is the best they 'got' I don't hold out much hope for the rest of the series.

Oh NO! Please, NOT more 'reality' rubbish. Television planners have finally capitulated to the lowest possible common denominator with an excess of US led drivel. Even the broadcast films are mostly of the lowest quality and, as for the garbage often dished up to children's television..........​.

Where have all of the good programme makers gone?

The BBC make their money from us watching the programme, the more people watch it the more they can get the government to increase the TV license fee

it is about time the licence fee was abolished and the bbc made to fund itself like any other private company.

Have to say all of the Judges as such have a pedigree in the music business, but this show isn't about music, like every other 'Talent' show on tv it's about money, the bbc have got a new show to try and claw some of the money back from the X-factor, the majority of the people that go on these shows don't have a hope in hell of getting anywhere in the music business and we all know that. How many winners or contestants on the X-Factor or similar shows have had any amount or real success, the answer is very few. The BBC make their money from us watching the programme, the more people watch it the more they can get the government to increase the TV license fee, Universal are giving the winner a £100,000 prize and a 1 year recording deal, and no doubt the winners first record from the show is part of the deal, and that is where Universal will make their money, if the Voice get say a 4 million audience, it's almost guaranteed that they will sell a large number of that first single, and the revenue they make from it will cover the prize they are giving out, and the amount of advertising they get from the show is priceless for them.

And for those 'Artists' saying the shows are crap and real singers and performers don't get a chance well lifes like that sometimes, but i am sure you could get on BGT if you are really any good, and if it is something you really want then keep on trying every outlet you can think of, if it's meant to be it will happen.

And just for the record i don't really like these shows on tv, i sometimes watch the auditions for the amusement value, i am definately not an avid viewer, and i certainly have never and probably would never buy one of the show singles, or goto one of the tours, so my comments are purely from a person not connected with the music business, just a common schmuck giving an honest opinion :D