only saw McCartney - voice sounded ropey - but what do you expect after 46 years ?

I watched until Torchwood - there was more imagination in one episode of Torchwood than in five years of The Brits.

Perhaps they should ask Russell T Davies to take on The Brits.

Since I produced it for three years in the early 90's, it has reverted to being like every other Awards show without one flicker of creative imagination.

But the thing I noticed was... nobody in the new names seems to have any star quality whatsoever.
Perhaps, after Robbie (who has little else) that is a welcome return if only the musical talent had some originality to it.

Incidentally, the sound was awful and yes, Macca's voice was well off but not as bad as Mika's.

It CANNOT be hard to include some bright and original ideas. Or can it? No other show does either. After one clever REALITY TV format, all others slavishly follow the same route. After a clever quiz concept, we get years of the same repeated (Millionaire, Weakest Link, Deal or no Deal... on and on and on...).

And in music - one Spice Girls has a million wannabe Spiceys.

At least The Beatles were original.

It was like watching a glorified Women's Institute jam-making competition, or (probably more accurate an assessment) an end-of-term prizegiving ceremony, since the Brits now seem to exist to promote the Brits School and vice versa.

International audiences, presuming that any could be bothered to watch it, would have been amazed at the general am dram tackiness of the whole affair. No wonder hardly any overseas acts turned up - as if the Eagles or Arcade Fire didn't have far better things to do with their time...I noted Dave Grohl's very barbed comments...

Mark Ronson - this is like the Brits giving the 1982 Best International Artist award to Stars On 45.

Was the seemingly blanket ignoring of Radiohead supposed to be some sort of "punishment"?

Amy W, predictably, was the only performer present who both looked and acted like an individual, let alone a star.

As for poor old Macca - "THIS MAN WROTE THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE REVOLUTION" - and then we get "Let's dance tonight/Everything's alright."

Then it was straight to the iPlayer so I could watch Torchwood as I should have done anyway.

Unfortunately it was as predicted, a totally average affair, with no thought or imagination.

The awards were mostly predictable, apart from Kate Nash and Arctic Monkeys winning. Only highlights were Dave Grohl's comments and the Arctic Monkeys piss-taking, which even then got cut by ITV.

I concur about Mark Ronson, he has done a covers album and has won Best Male, yet does not sing on any of his tracks.

Time for a complete re-think on how to do the Brits awards ceremony. The NME awards are far more entertaining.

It's beginnning to turn into Sports Personality of the Year, an event that got very lazy in it's concept.

One comment was that the Osbournes weren't that bad hosting the event.

If it's the same next year, then I will turn off.

I had a good time, but do agree with may of the comments here. The sound wasn't great overall and there were obviously monitor problems. Nice pie though!

the overnights reveal 6.1 million viewers which is excellent and will delight ITV , the BPI and Ged Doherty.
The TV audience, fired up by everyone with a vested interest from bookmakers to industry pundits was lead to believe they would get to see 'car -crash' television with the most frightful and disfunctional family since the Munsters, the ghastly Osbournes presiding over a series of unplanned disasters. Never happened of course , not least because Ozzy was muzzled in favour of his shrieking harridan of a wife.The very 'POP' content was perfect for the ITV audience, with MIKA, LEONA , KYLIE and Rhianna all fulfilling the audience demographic perfectly.Not a vintage year , but then 2007 wasn't a vintage year so no surprises.

We got 9 million for our Record of the Day shows - cancelled by dear Guy Freeman because he decided it wasn't credible enough.

What utter crap, it was far more credible. At least it was voted for by the general public and had a Eurovision feel, by going round the UK regions. Rather than half of the awards being chosen by a committee. Is that really the reason he gave?

I think the only 9 million ratings ITV get are for Coronation Street. 6.1 million is good, but no better than Ashes to Ashes.

I did love the Sun's review of the Brits, having a pop at the Arctic Monkeys behaviour, quite laughable by their standards.