shiny-floor

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#1·7h ago

(informal, of, television, chiefly, UK) Highly produced, extravagant and spectacular in a tightly-controlled, somewhat formulaic way.

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.

Origin: thumb|right|The studio for The X Factor, a classic shiny-floor show, demonstrating the stereotypical reflective floor tiles that gave the format its name. From the large, brightly-lit studios in which popular entertainment shows are often filmed, which tend to include well-polished or illuminated floors. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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