STAR ACADEMY

'Star Academy' is a highly successful television show format produced by Endemol, that has been broadcasted in over 50 countries. It is a pop music talent contest with viewer voting and reality show elements.

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Format

History

''Star Academy'' around the world

Parodies of ''Star Academy''

Variants of ''Star Academy''

Special concerts of ''Star Academy''

See Also

Near copies of ''Star Academy''

Format

There are many versions of the ''Star Academy'' show, each country having its own slight variations, but the basic concept remains the same: contestants live in a boarding-school called "The Academy", managed by a director, and various teachers coach them in several artistic disciplines. The participants are filmed with cameras throughout the day and night (an idea borrowed from another of Endemol's major reality shows ''Big Brother''). Once a week, the contestants have to face a prime time show, where they sing the song they've prepared during the week before, as well as recapping their trials and tribulations at The Academy from the past week. The live show will often feature special guest stars, with whom some of the contestants have the opportunity to sing. Based on the judges' verdicts and viewer voting, the weakest contestant is dropped. The eventual winner is awarded a record deal and usually some amount of money.

History

The ''Star Academy'' concept belongs to the Spanish production company Gestmusic, a Spanish branch of Endemol. The first country to broadcast the format, however, was France on October 20th, 2001. Two days later, ''Operación Triunfo'', as the show is called in Spanish speaking countries, went on the air in Spain.
From then on the ''Star Academy'' phenomenon began to spread in an unstoppable way, being impelled by the sweeping success of the contest in major media markets like France or Russia.
Nowadays, ''Star Academy'' is the second most expanded reality show, just behind ''Big Brother'', and has reached markets as different as India, the Arab World and the United States, becoming the first Spanish format ever acquired by these countries. This show is similar to the show "American Idol" but different in that it also shows the contestants' lives together in the house where they live; American Idol shows nothing of the contestants' personalities or relationships with each other. Star Academy is in essence a singing competition, where the lowest vote-receiver each week must leave the show, ending finally when only one person remains.

''Star Academy'' around the world

'Region'	'Local name'	'Channel'	'Official website'	'Winner'
Africa	Project Fame	M-Net	Website	★ Lindiwe Alam ''(Zambia)''
Arab World	Star Academy	LBC	Website	★ Mohamed Attia (Egyptian) ★ Hisham Abdulrahman (Saudi Arabian) ★ Joseph Attieh (Lebanese) ★ Shada Hassoun (Iraqi)
Argentina	Operación Triunfo	Telefe	Website	★ Claudio Basso ★ José García ★ Benjamín Rosales
Belgium	Star Academy	Kanaal Twee ''(Dutch)'' ''RTL-TVI (French)''	Website	★ Katerine Agvoustakis ''(Dutch)'' ★ Mélanie Martin's ''(French)''
Brazil	Fama	Globo	Website	★ Vanessa Jackson ★ Marcus Vinícius ★ Tiago Silva ★ Fabio Souza
Bulgaria	Star Academy	NTV	Website	★ Marin Yonchev
Canada	Star Académie	TVA	Website	★ Wilfred Le Bouthillier ★ Stéphanie Lapointe ★ Marc-André Fortin
Chile	Operación Triunfo	Mega	Website	★ Mónica Rodríguez
Croatia	Showtime	Nova TV	Website
East Africa	Tusker Project Fame	NTV (''Kenya'') Channel 10 (''Tanzania'') UBC (''Uganda'')	Website	★ ''Valerie Kimani''(Kenya)
France	Star Academy	TF1	Website	★ Jenifer Bartoli ★ Nolwenn Leroy ★ Elodie Frégé ★ Grégory Lemarchal ★ Magalie Bonneau (a.k.a. Magalie Vaé) ★ Cyril Cinelu
Germany	Fame Academy	RTL II		★ Become One (resulting six-member band)
Greece	Fame Story	ANT1	Website	★ Notis Hristodoulou ★ Kalomoira Saranti ★ Periklis Stergianoudis ★ Leonidas Balafas
India	Fame Gurukul	SET	Website	★ Qazi Touqeer & Ruprekha Banerjee
Italy	Operazione Trionfo	Italia 1	Website	★ Bruno Cuomo
Maghreb	Star Academy	Nesma TV	Website	★ ''Hagar Adnane (Morocco)''
Mexico	Operación Triunfo	Televisa	Website	★ Darina Márquez
Netherlands	Star Maker	Yorin	Website	★ Sita Vermeulen
Philippines	Pinoy Dream Academy	ABS-CBN Studio 23	Website	★ Yeng Constantino
Portugal	Academia De Estrelas	TVI	Website	★ Mané
	Operação Triunfo	RTP	Website	★ Sofia Barbosa ★ Sofia Vitória
Romania	Star Factory	Prima TV	Website	★ Alex
Russia	Fabrika Zvezd	Channel One (Russia)	Website	★ Korni (band) ★ Gagarina Polina ★ Nikita Malinin ★ Irina Dubtsova ★ Victoria Dayneko ★ Dmitry Koldun
Spain	Operación Triunfo	TVE	Website	★ Rosa López ★ Ainhoa Cantalapiedra ★ Vicente Seguí
	Operación Triunfo	Telecinco		★ Sergio Rivero ★ Lorena Gómez
Turkey	Akademi Türkiye	ATV	Website	★ Barış Akarsu
UK	Fame Academy	BBC	Website	★ David Sneddon ★ Alex Parks
Ukraine	Fabryka Zirok	Novy TV	Website	★ ''Current season''
USA		ABC	Website	★ ''Cancelled''

Pan regional version with 11 African countries involved: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Joint version with contestants from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Adaptation for the Maghreb area. Countries taking part: Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia

Pan-Arab version, with 19 contestants chosen from the Arab World countries taking part in it (watching, voting and/or with a contestant): Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.

Parodies of ''Star Academy''

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★ Mexico (Aperración al Triunfo)

Variants of ''Star Academy''

VIP Editions/Celebrity editions

'Region'	'Local name'	'Channel'	'Official website'	'Winner'
India	Celebrity Fame Gurukul	SET	[ Website]	★ Amit Sareen
Portugal	Academia de Famosos	TVI	[ Website]	★ Romana
UK	Comic Relief Does Fame Academy	BBC	[ Website]	★ Will Mellor ★ Edith Bowman ★ Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

Special concerts of ''Star Academy''

Country	Concert	Winner
Spain	"Gala de los ganadores" (Winners Concert)	No winners
France	EUROBEST	Chenoa (from Spain)
France	WORLDBEST	Elodie (from France)

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★ EUROBEST

Country	Contestant	Song
Spain	Chenoa (finalist of Operación Triunfo 1)	"it 's raining men"
Belgium	Mélanie Martin's	"Like a prayer"
UK	Lemar (finalist of Fame Academy 1)	"with or without you"
Portugal	Mané and Lidia	"Sussudio"
Greece	Notis Hristodoulou	"1,2,3…Maria"
France	Nolwenn Leroy	"I will always love you"
Netherlands	Sita Vermeulen	"All I wanna do"
Russia	Korni (Pasha's band, Pasha was the winner of Fabrika Zvezd)	"We will rock you"
Italia	Bruno Cuomo	"Sorry seems to be the hardest word"

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★ "Gala de los ganadores" (Winners gala)

Country	Contestant	Song
Spain	Ainhoa Cantalapiedra	"Sobreviviré"
Mexico	Darina Márquez	"Mujer contra mujer"
Brazil	Vanessa Jackson	"De volta pra mim"
Italia	Bruno Cuomo	"L'atmosfera"

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★ WORLDBEST

Country	Contestant	Song
Spain	Miguel and Davinia (they were finalist of Operación Triunfo 3)	"As"
Argentina	Emanuel (finalist of Operación Triunfo 1)	"Feel"
UK	Alistair (finalist of Fame Academy 2)	"Everything I do"
Brazil	Nalanda (finalist of FAMA 1)	"Whenever"
Chile	Mónica Rodríguez	"Lady marmalade"
France	Elodie Frégé	"S'il suffisait d'aimer"
Arab world	Bruno (from Lebanon, finalist of Star Academy 1)	"The cup of life"
Russia	Julia (finalist of Fabrika Zvezd)	"Thorn"
Mexico	Darina Márquez	"Hero"
Canada	Wilfred Le Bouthillier and Marie-Elaine	"Turn around"
Germany	Become One	"Fame"

See Also

★ List of television show franchises

Near copies of ''Star Academy''

★ ''Fame Factory''

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★ Lithuania

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★ Norway

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★ Sweden

★ ''La Academia''

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★ Indonesia (''Akademi Fantasi Indosiar'')

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★ Malaysia (''Akademi Fantasia'')

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★ Mexico (''La Academia'')

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★ Thailand (''Academy Fantasia'')

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★ The United States (''La Academia USA'')

★ ''Dream Show, the music''

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★ Greece

★ ''Amici di Maria De Filippi''

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★ Italy