Copy-cat mentor

TV3 is doing its best to bring to viewers the best in entertainment programmes but they often overdo things.

I was shocked when I watched something on Mentor 3 that is akin to the acclaimed Big Brother series.

They’ve introduced something they call the ‘Confession Room’ which is a copy of what we know in Big Brother as the ‘Diary Room’, where Big Brother has a one-on-one with each housemate.

Confession Room? Are they in a parish? And guess what they call their ‘Big Brother’, Papa Mentor! The name sounds as incredible as the so-called ‘Confession Room’.

Since the inception of this Mentor concept, TV3 has tried feverishly to introduce the Big Brother thing into it but it backfires at every try.

Believe me, this Papa Mentor and confession room episode is a waste of time. It baffles me as to why TV3 would want to bring in something like this when all we are interested in is how well the contestants can sing.

Papa Mentor is not even abreast with activities in the house and tends to ask unnecessary questions. Besides he is not very eloquent.

Big Brother is way different from a music talent show like Mentor. In Big Brother, its about how contestants from different countries and different backgrounds relate with and adapt to each other.

Big Brother has a 24-hour surveillance on the house, takes each person to the ‘Diary Room’ and makes inquisitions as to how they are relating and coexisting.

For Mentor, the basic reason the contestants are there is their vocal abilities and therefore emphasis should be on their singing and not how good or how fast they eat and sleep.

A housemate can try to malign a fellow housemate and misbehave in the house but at the end of the day, it is his or her vocal strength that will keep them in the house and not the kind of things they say in their ‘Confession Room’.