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PRG Lights Britain's Got Talent
With more than 19 million people watching, PRG Lighting and Dave Davey lit the dramatic Britain's Got Talent finals as dance troupe Diversity beat favourite Susan Boyle.
The show became the highest watched reality show in history and with a 71% viewer share at peak, claimed the highest ratings of any UK television show since England lost against Portugal in the Euro 2004 football tournament.
PRG have a long history of lighting ITV's biggest shows and were proud to be involved again. Working alongside lighting designer Dave Davey, PRG project manager Kelly Cornfield provided a lighting package flexible enough to create the range of looks demanded by more than 50 unique performances across the semi-final and grand finale week.
The show was a visual spectacular with an expansive set, lined with curved pillars of Chromastrip and flanked by two 5m high cylinders clad with MiTrix. "With that amount of Scenic LED as well of the large high resolution screen at the rear of the set, the brightness of the lighting fixtures was a key consideration," commented Kelly Cornifield. "The rig included 38 VL3000 Spots which really cut though, creating the hard beam effect that worked so well for many of the fast paced, highly styled performances such as Diversity and Flawless."
Dave Hallett, crew chief for the show added: "I was very happy to be working with PRG again on Britain's Got Talent. I know that they have access to an enormous variety of kit, so they wouldn't be phased with my requests - whatever we need. There are always last-minute requests for the show, and I always know that the gear will be there on time and work first time. After all - if the lights go off in front of 19 million viewers there'll be hell to pay!"
Ever since the audition clip of Susan Boyle hit YouTube and clocked up more than 100 million views, the world's eyes have been on Britain's Got Talent, and the week of spectacular semi-final and grand final performances didn't fail to deliver.
photo: Ken McKay/Rex Features
30th June 2009
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