The final of the television competition What Talent!presented on the airwaves of Noovo live from the Monument-National, in Montreal, almost turned into a disaster on Monday evening when a technical problem disrupted the live voting period.
The public was invited to elect their favorite participant among the seven finalists (the groups C4pitals, Harmonix, Lil Afro Krew, Stardust, and the solo artists Lil Zak, Nathan Lavoine and Rick Duff) using the Noovo.ca platform… which could not resist the popularity of Quel Talent!
The owner of Noovo, Bell Media, had not anticipated such an influx of simultaneous viewers on its site, we deduce, and the voting system collapsed, “frozen” due to too much traffic.
“Nice problem”, we would be right to say ironically…
It remains to be seen whether this traffic will be reflected in the show’s ratings!
On site, at the Monument-National (because we attended the event on site and live), uncertainty reigned for several minutes while waiting for a verdict. The hesitation did not completely disappear when the host Marie-Josée Gauvin, very solid in the circumstances, announced that the identity of the winner(s) would finally be revealed this Thursday, November 14, and that the voting period would be extended until Tuesday, 10 p.m., for the sake of fairness to all candidates.
While the spectators got up from their seats in a certain hubbub once the TV broadcast was over, the production, we later understood, took advantage of the presence of all the candidates on stage to pre-record victorious reactions with each of the finalist groups and artists. In order, we understand, to limit travel for participants and not make school-age young people in the competition miss too much school. Which, we agree, will take away a bit of spontaneity from the moments of “triumph” which will be presented on the small screen on Thursday.
However, it was impossible for us to learn more: neither the broadcaster Noovo nor the producer Sphere Media wanted to comment on the incident. The journalists present were cavalierly expelled from the room and asked to leave without further explanation.
Marie-Josée Gauvin and judges Serge Denoncourt, Marie-Mai, Anne Dorval and Rachid Badouri did not address the media either, although they should have done so if the circumstances had been “normal”.
A laconic official statement from Bell Media, also published on the social networks of Quel talent!, was sent to journalists a few minutes later.
Here it is:
“Due to exceptional attendance on the Noovo.ca site during the live voting for WHAT TALENT! technical difficulties were encountered. In order to guarantee fairness to all finalists, the production and the firm Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton have decided to extend the voting until Tuesday 10:00 p.m. The results will be announced next Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on Noovo during the daily show.”
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