New talent show offers a long career rather than five minutes of fame

Gary Barlow heads up BBC One’s new talent show which promises five young men a job rather than just five minutes of fame, writes Ella Walker

LET It Shine opens with a bang.

A musical theatre bang, no less, a sequence that’s so glitzy, the choreography so dazzlingly precise, that even a naked Gary Barlow doesn’t distract from the pageantry of it all.