Glow Up
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Revision as of 17:36, 9 July 2020
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Host
Stacey Dooley
Broadcast
Wall to Wall for BBC One, 6 March to 24 April 2019 (8 episodes in 1 series)
Wall to Wall for BBC Two, 16 July 2020 to present
Synopsis
Aspiring make-up artists battle to be named the next make-up artist star.
Stacey Dooley (investigative journalist and reigning Strictly Come Dancing champ) hosts a contest for champion cosmeticians. The judges are Dominic Skinner and Val Garland, two established make-up artists. A third judge joins the panel each week.
From left: host Stacey Dooley, guest judge Nikki de Jager, Val Garland, Dominic Skinner.
The basic format is familiar from The Great British Bake Off and everything else: lots of tasks under time pressure. Some of them allow creativity, some are technical tests, some are almost impossible in the time allowed.
With a familiar competition format, it's the presentation and attitude that makes the difference. The judges know about the subject, and justify their decisions - sometimes in retrospect, sometimes as they competitors are veering from the preferred path.
Every skills show needs a gimmick, a tent or a blockhead or something. Glow Up has a "red seat": whoever the judges think did worst in the first challenge will sit in a red seat for the next one, and might suffer a time penalty as well.
Detecting flaws the size of pores.
Whoever's bottom of the heap after two tasks takes part in a head-to-head challenge, literally facing each other. Worst leaves, and everyone else comes back next week. Best performer in the final wins.
It's a skills competition about make-up, and the UKGameshows commentary panel doesn't know a chap stick from a lipstick from a glow stick. We do know when a show tells a coherent story, and where we can have faith in the judges, and Glow Up is certainly all of these.
Music
Tom Haines, credited as "Composer".
Trivia
Commissioned by BBC Three.
