ABC’s Rising Star concluded its first season last night with the optimistic hope that it will return for a new season, declaring the “winner of Rising Star 2014,” as if there will be a “winner of Rising Star 2015.” The show’s final episode illustrated the summer singing competition’s strengths and weaknesses. It had the final four compete in a …
ABC tried again last night to reinvent a tired format with a smart twist, debuting Rising Star, the show which features live voting by viewers. Based on an Israeli format, the singing competition ends the need for drawn-out, boring results shows by making voting something that happens live, while contestants sing. Unfortunately, it did that …
During The Bachelorette last night, ABC’s Rising Star interrupted to bribe viewers into downloading the new show’s app and testing it by offering a sneak preview of Bachelor in Paradise. While the experiment seemed to work, it also revealed what could doom the show, and it’s not its wall or its app. “If we get …