Popstars (2001)

Genre

reality television

Country

United Kingdom

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A talent show puts singers through auditions and elimination rounds. A panel of judges picks five finalists to form a pop group called Hear'Say. The series then follows the group as they record and promote their first single.

competitiveupbeataspiringenergeticlightheartedformulaicaccessible

What happens

Popstars is a reality music competition series that was broadcast on ITV in early 2001. It was the first British series of the international Popstars franchise and was billed as a documentary on the formation of a modern pop group. The programme began with audition rounds of aspiring singers performing covers of classic songs before a panel of judges. The best performers were selected to come to London for further rounds of auditions. Over the weeks, the judges eliminated various singers from the auditions until just a few singers were left in contention. In the final weeks, five contestants were chosen by the judges to form the new pop group Hear'Say. The programme then showed the group recording and promoting their first single, documenting their first ventures into the music industry. The first series of Popstars proved popular with audiences, and a second series (named Popstars: The Rivals) followed in late 2002, but used a vastly different format, heavily influenced by Pop Idol, which had aired in the interim, to even greater success. Another follow-up (aired prior to The Rivals), Soapstars, used the original Popstars format to find actors for a new family in ITV's hit soap Emmerdale, but neither the show, nor the winners' roles in Emmerdale, were deemed a success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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