[JoshBB]

Like, I've enjoyed the show and watched pretty much every episode since the final of 2008 and seen countless clips from earlier auditions on youtube.. but it seems that in recent years there has been little fun or variety acts making it to the live shows. The judges also seem way more hesitant to press their buzzers.
If you look at this info you can see the big drop:

buzzes:
BGT1 (2009) - 17
BGT2 (2008) - 20
BGT3 (2009) - 28
BGT4 (2010) - 12
BGT5 (2011) - 18
BGT6 (2012) - 11
BGT7 (2013) - 16
BGT8 (2014) - 9
BGT9 (2015) - 5

I mean.. if you compare now to 2009 it had almost six times the buzzers being used, and a lot more variety - you had Mama Trish, Darth Jackson, Faces of Disco, Nick Hell, The Barrow Boys and so many more.. all very memorable acts for being different. Now we're lucky to get a few to make it get to the semis - Jeffrey Drayton or maybe Narinder Dhani, arguably Luca Calo.

Feel like it's just getting a bit too serious with itself and it's not as fun as it used to be. We get rumours every year of acts being asked to audition and come on the show because they want this "standard of talent".

Hopefully I am not the only person who thinks this?

[Mystic Mock]

Shouldn't the show be more serious? Serious on these shows can be fun to watch too.

The main thing that's killed TXF is that it's clowned itself up too much imo, and if you're a serious talent the public think you're dull because the act isn't singing out of tune.

[Mystic Mock]

Shouldn't the show be more serious? Serious on these shows can be fun to watch too.

The main thing that's killed TXF is that it's clowned itself up too much imo, and if you're a serious talent the public think you're dull because the act isn't singing out of tune.