Talent show
A talent show or talent show is an event or television program that focuses on the potential casting singers, dancers, models and the like.
Basics
Part of casting shows is that participants show off their skills to a jury. When singing competitions like pop stars or Germany sucht den Superstar hold the responsible TV production companies mass auditions, where regularly attended several thousand candidates in the past.
The jury increasing due to the performance shown prior to the selection of candidates in another round of the show ( Recall) have to present something again. In this way, the number of participants is reduced until a participant field is compiled from which the winner is determined. From this point decides no longer the jury, which suitor comes in the next round, but choose the viewers via phone ( televoting ) their favorites. The judges give only even from their professional opinion on the contribution of each participant.
Examples of casting shows
A talent show in German television was broadcast pop stars. The format was developed by the New Zealander Jonathan Dowling and licensed for great audience success in New Zealand and Australia for the German market. In 2000 Popstars ( from 2003 for ProSieben) was first produced by the television production company Safe TV for RTL 2. 2001 season in the Swiss TV station TV3 was shown.
In the fall of 2002, the RTL achieved great success with the casting show Germany sucht den Superstar (DSDS ). The format is based on the British TV show Pop Idol, which was exported to many other countries. In December 2003, the first international television World Idol competition was held. Winners of all hosted at Pop Idol competitions competed against each other. The An incoming for Germany Alexander Klaws was the penultimate.
In 2002, the first ORF radiated from the talent show Star Mania in Austria. Although it contains elements of the Pop Idol format, it is an independent development. Interestingly, the 2003 runner- Star Mania participant Christina Stürmer has become successful in Germany. Swiss Television purchased the Austrian format for the consignment Music Star. Here, too, was not a winner, but the sixth-placed Sebastian guarantor from the first season of the most commercially successful participants.
In Germany Sat.1 responded to the success of American Idol with the talent show Star Search. Star Search comes from the USA and has produced there among other celebrities such as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. The program differs from Popstars or American Idol, as is wanted on Star Search not only singers, but also by comedians or models. From the two German squadrons only Bill Kaulitz reached a constant high level of awareness. He retired in category Music Act 10-15, although in the second round, but has enjoyed success as a member of the band Tokio Hotel since mid-2005. The second German Star Search Relay (2004) was a failure, but also because of the lack of commercial success, the winner not only due to poor ratings.
Stefan Raab parodied 2003/2004 with the mission of Stefan sucht den Super -Grand- Prix -Star ( SSDSGPS ) the existing casting formats; a nod to American Idol is easy to recognize as the abbreviation SSDSGPS. For the mission he was awarded the 2005 Adolf Grimme Prize. In the program, the candidate for the German preliminary decision of the Euro Vision Song Contest was determined. The claim of the mission was to assess the musical talent of the candidates later. As the successor of SSDSGPS 2007 SSDSDSSWEMUGABRTLAD arose.
The critics have held and their winners no great prestige and often the comparison with bands retort is used. International, there are other formats and new (as in Hungary) are planned. In the U.S., there were, for example, under the title American Juniors, a talent show for children. In the UK, the first television by the BBC in 2008 radiated from the broadcast Last Choir Standing, in which the best of the participating choirs was determined. 2008 winner was the Welsh choir Only Men Aloud! .
International shipments and winners (selection)
Most music - talent shows are either based on the British Pop Idol format, the New Zealand Format pop stars or the also British format The X Factor. The three formats were very successful and have been licensed worldwide.