F1 Television Realism
It’s about time Formula 1 had a dose of reality, or rather a dose of reality television.
You see it everywhere these days, in the UK it seems there’s always some C-list celebrity doing something daft to get themselves TV exposure. Eating bugs, prancing on ice or whatever. Even IndyCar got the jump on F1 when Helio Castroneves recently won a television dance competition.
It’s not just the stars that get a go either, after all Simon Cowell became a household name spotting the planet’s untapped talent and putting them on our screens. A never ending stream of fresh-faced hopefuls paraded in front of a society that appears to have an insatiable appetite for more of the same.
Formula One should take note, a reality show could expose the sport to a much wider audience, specifically targeting armchair viewers which, let’s be honest are the ones FOM are really interested in. So, if F1 could benefit from such a program, what would it be about?
Right now I’m led to believe there’s a program on British TV that has something to do with choosing a singer to appear in a West End musical. Seems like a perfectly reasonable idea, the musical gets promotion, the audience gets to pick the star, the television company make money from phone-in voting.
