See shiny-floor on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From the large, brightly-lit studios in which popular entertainment shows are often filmed, which tend to include well-polished or illuminated floors.",
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"ref": "2014, Annette Hill, Reality TV, page 75:",
"text": "Roscoe (2013) describes the trope in talent formats as the big shiny floor moment: You have a factory of formats and each one has to be bigger and better.",
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"ref": "2016, Laurie Ouellette, A Companion to Reality Television, page 126:",
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"ref": "2016, Lucy Brown, Lyndsay Duthie, The TV Studio Production Handbook:",
"text": "In stark contrast to these 'shiny floor shows' was the very straightforward comedy panel show format, Have I Got News for You, which saw five personalities sitting on a panel in a simple set.",
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"ref": "2016, Helen Wheatley, Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual Pleasure, page 13:",
"text": "There is more work to be done on the istory of the spectacular as genre (in fact there is relatively little discussion of this programming in this book), particularly in understanding it as a precursor for the contemporary 'shiny floor' show, popular Saturday night TV light entertainment that ranges from the big talent shows (X Factor, ITV1, 2004–; Britain's Got Talent, ITV1, 2007–; The Voice, BBC1, 2012-), celebrity-focused light entertainment shows (Ant and Dec's Saturday Night takeaway, ITV1, 2003-; The Graham Norton Show, BBC1, 2007-), dating programmes (take Me Out, ITV1, 2007-), and the para-sports programmes that Caldwell terms 'trash spectaculars' (1995: 3) (e.g. Gladiators, ITV1, 1992-2000; Ninja Warrior UK, BBC1, 2015-).",
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"ref": "2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:",
"text": "By the 1980s, there was still huge appeal for what became known as 'shiny-floor' talent shows, especially during weekend primetime. In the US, Star Search ran for 12 years in its original run, from 1983 to 1995, and as searches went, it did genuinely uncover some A-list talent, including Destiny's Child, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morrisette and LeAnn Rimes.",
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"ref": "2022, Alex Connock, Media Management and Artificial Intelligence:",
"text": "A major shiny-floor show in the US market costs more than $2 million per produced episode, sometimes significantly more.",
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