Pop's Ultimate Star

Genre

reality television

How it feels

Former reality TV contestants, many of them from New Zealand Idol, compete for a cash prize and a car. The show features public voting and judges who eliminate contestants over several weeks.

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What happens

Pop's Ultimate Star is a TV2's reality television show which put former reality contestants against each other, most of then were former NZ Idol contestants. The show was produced by Eyeworks Touchdown, with the first prize being $50,000 and a Kia 'Rio' car. It was hosted by Dominic Bowden, and was originally scheduled to be held in the St. James Theatre in Auckland, but after damage to the theatre, the show was eventually shifted to the Bruce Mason theatre, before finally relocating to the TVNZ's Avalon studio in Wellington. Originally, public voting occurred on the performance show on Sundays, where the eventual two contestants who had the lowest public votes were due to be in a "sing off" on Wednesdays, where the judges eliminated one contestant. After week five, TVNZ changed the format and a contestant was eliminated in the Sunday night show by the judges, after the two with the lowest number of public votes were chosen. The judges were music industry veterans Peter Urlich from Th' Dudes, Jordan Luck from The Exponents, Harry Lyon from Hello Sailor and Kim Willoughby from When The Cat's Away. Lyon was the show's musical director, and Willoughby, the performance coach and stylist. The show debuted on 29 May 2007. It received mainly negative reviews, ranging from the judges and song choice, lighting, singing and the most common one, the sound issue. Another controversial issue was the introduction of immunity challenges during episodes two through four. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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