Whilst it occasionally kickstarts the career of someone with a good singing voice there are no programmes to help those acts along with genuine creative talent who play their instruments and write songs. I presume this sort of thing wouldn't attract enough viewers and therefore the advertisers. Shame one of the BBC digital channels couldn't do this sort of thing.
I think that was the idea behind BBCs "The Voice", but like all these shows, they turn to "the public vote" and all the little girlies end up voting for who they think is pretty....which isn't the same as talented.
I'm all for the old fashioned talent show kind of thing, such as New Faces, aimed at taking an unknown artist and giving them a lucky break, but thats completely different to looking for someone who has done little work in the industry to be to be moulded into some sort of cash cow.
Its a matter of deciding whats more important, the entertainment or the money, and unfortunately these days, its the quick buck that wins.
