^^it's Fame Academy under a different name, licensed from Endemol. This new show probably needs its own thread.
blech, i'll skip this as well, I don't even like American Idol, and this is worse...
actually we had a whole discussion about this in another thread... apparently operacion triunfo or star academy are the original and the rest are franchises.
Taste is truly subjective. I enjoy American Idol, and this is MUCH better. I've watched UK, Spanish and Portuguese versions.
Looks like ABS-CBN needed something to go up against Philippine Idol, much like Fame Academy went up against Pop Idol in the UK.
But it's really a question of casting. I wasn't that fond of Fame Academy 2, after all.
Anyone know the launch date?
On a related note, American TV network ABC also licensed this show from Endemol this year, and the American version, The One: Making a Music Star, premieres this July in the States.
gee! i wonder who they'll get for the faculty (god! i hope we have diction teacher as well. LOL.) and who will be the headmaster (hmmm... bagay si KUH dito!
) ... plus who will be visiting them for the "master classes"? (sana international artists din) and most interesting of all ... how will our "academia" look compared to the ones from other countries? (sana naman di tayo mag-mukhang basura. LOL.)
in the spanish one, a season lasts 5-6 months. atin kaya?
from what i know these are the countries that have this franchise: spain (operacion triunfo), portugal (operacao triunfio), mexico (operacion triunfo), argentina (operacion triunfo), brazil (fama), chile (operacion triunfo), u.k. (fame academy), italy (operazione trionfo), france (star academy), arab states (star academy), greece (fame story), russia (factory of the stars) and indonesia (akademi fantasi) ... and now u.s. (the one) and us (dream academy). baka naman may iba pa kayong alam. heh heh.
most of these only lasted a season or two tho... and some have produced some really interesting winners. (the brazil one is awesome! ... and probably the most prolific is david bisbal.)
i, too, prefer this over AI... when TVE asia aired OT 1-3... i was basically up at strange hours in the morning to catch the dailies and watch the weekly galas. LOL...
BTW hankey, when OT españa moved from TVE to telecinco... nina didn't return as headmistress... and only about half the faculty moved with the show. sayang! i liked nina.
... and even BIGGER sayang... wala tayong telecinco! aaaaargh!