You're A Star
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| You're A Star | |
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| Genre | Interactive reality talent show |
| Country of origin |  Ireland |
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| Executive producer(s) | Larry Bass |
| Running time | Varies |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | RTÉ One |
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| Official website | |
You're A Star is a singing contest in Ireland, created by Screentime ShinAwiL and Radio Telefís Éireann.
You're A Star Plus is a behind-the-scenes show of series, shown on RTÉ Two [1].
You're A Star is shown weekly on RTÉ One over the winter months of each year. The show is broadcast live from The Helix theatre in Dublin City University.
The show was originally designed to select the Irish Eurovision Song Contest entrant, but this idea was abandoned in September of 2005. Some believe the title is a pun on "Euro Star".
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[edit] 2003
The 2002/2003 series was the inaugural contest. Radio Telefís Éireann, being the Irish member of the European Broadcasting Union decided that the winner of You're A Star would go on to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest for the foreseeable proceeding years. The show was hosted by Ray D'Arcy. The former Eurovision Song Contest winner, Linda Martin, Talent spotter, Phil Coulter and music manager Louis Walsh served as judges. In the final, the public voted Mickey Joe Harte, a musician from Donegal, winner of the contest. He entered the 2003 contest with the song We've Got the World Tonight where he finished in eleventh position. This was one of the poorest results achieved by Ireland, the most successful country in the song contest having won the contest seven times.
[edit] 2004
You're A Star returned for a 2003/2004 season. The judges, presenters and general format of the show didn't differ from season one. Chris Doran from Waterford won the competition. In the final of Eurovision Song Contest 2004 Chris Doran finished in 22nd position with seven points awarded by the United Kingdom. As a result, Ireland did not qualify automatically for the 2005 Eurovision final.
[edit] 2005
The format of the show was changed for the 2005 season, to try to ensure that Ireland chose an act with more appeal across Europe. The show was no longer limited to solo singer-performers; bands under the size of 6 people could now enter. The final was held on 6 March 2005. Donna and Joseph McCaul, a brother-and-sister act from Westmeath won the contest; Jade, a band from Wexford, finished second; the Henry Girls finished third.
In the semi-final of Eurovision Song Contest 2005, Donna and Joe sang Love?
(pronounced "love question mark"), written by Karl Broderick. The act failed to qualify for the final.
[edit] Charity You're A Star
Main Article: Charity You're A Star
In the Summer of 2005 eight Irish celebrities enrolled in a You're A Star Style competition. However their objective was not to become an international singing sensation, but raise money for a charity of their choice.
RTÉ and the producers decided to run a second season in 2006 where 10 celebrities went face-to-face for their noble cause.
[edit] 2005-2006
On 16 September 2005 RTÉ confirmed that the show would return for a fourth series. However, unlike the previous three seasons, the 2005/2006 prize is not to represent Ireland in Eurovision Song Contest 2006. Instead, it is a recording contract with the record labels Universal Music Ireland and Polydor UK (international distribution). The live shows began on the first of January when the final contestants were chosen. These included Marilyn Bane who came third, The Sullivan Brothers who came second and Lucia Evans from Galway who won the competition and the recording contract.
[edit] Presenters
This year Síle Seoige and Derek Mooney hosted the season. Síle covered the auditions. She chatted with the acts before they perform in front of judges, congratulated those who got through the next round or sometimes offered a shoulder to cry on for those didn't. Derek hosted the live shows. He introduced the acts to the audience and then after the performance he asked the judges for their insight and sometimes played the part of referee when there is a conflict of opinion between the judges. rte.ie/tv/star/presenter
[edit] Judges
Linda Martin and Brendan O'Connor who voiced their professional opinion and advice during the Charity Special returned for this season along with Thomas Black of the record label Much Music.rte.ie/tv/star/judges
On the 26 February the judges announced their favorite contestants. Brendan's is Lucia Evens. Linda's two are Lucia and the Sullivan Brothers. Finally Thomas said that both Marilyn Bane and Lucia Evans were the strongest of the semi-finalists.
[edit] Stages
18 acts have been picked from the auditions. Nine acts went directly through to the first stage. The other nine went to the Wildcard show where an additional three acts were chosen to go the first stage.
Over January and February the contestants were slowly eliminated. At 20.00 on 4 March 2006 the semi-final was held on RTÉ One and the final was held on Sunday 5 March at 16.30, also on RTÉ One. The final pull 902,702 viwers and was the most wached program that season.
| Directly Through | Wildcards | Contestants |
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| Tammy Brown | Tammy Brown (eliminated 8 January 2006) |
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| Sinead McGovern | Sinead McGovern (eliminated 15 January 2006) |
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| Ruairi Quinn | Tara Sinnot (eliminated 1 January 2006) |
Ruairi Quinn (eliminated 22 January 2006) |
| The Ups | The Ups (eliminated 22 January 2006) |
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| Leman | Elain & Alan (eliminated 1 January 2006) |
Leman (eliminated 29 January 2006) |
| Nickel & Dime | Xerosun (eliminated 1 January 2006) |
Nickel & Dime (eliminated 5 February 2006) |
| Ciara McGinn | Aibhe Du Vé (eliminated 1 January 2006) |
Ciara McGinn (eliminated 12 February 2006) |
| Louise Killeen | Aoife Downey (eliminated 1 January 2006) |
Louise Killeen (eliminated 19 February 2006) |
| Jeannete Cronin | Jeannete Cronin (eliminated 26 February 2006 |
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| Marilyn Bane | Marilyn Bane (eliminated 4 March 2006 |
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| Sullivan Brothers | Sullivan Brothers (eliminated 5 March 2006) |
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| Lucia Evans | (eliminated 1 January 2006) |
Lucia Evans (Winner) |
[edit] You're a Star 2006-2007
On the 19 August 2006 RTÉ confirmed that You're a Star was to return for a fifth series. The tour venues were The Hill grove Hotel, Monaghan, The Helix and the R.D.S, Dublin, The Mill street arena, Cork and The Loge Hotel conference centre in Galway. Brian Ormond hosted the audition phase and Kith Duffy hosted the live shows. Unlike in earlier series there was no wild card show. Out of seven thousand auditioned only 82 made it through to the workshop round.
Out of these, 40 went through to the knock-out round until the final 12 were chosen. The finalists were David O'Connor, 21 Demands, Maeve O'Donovan, Scuba Dice, Alan Kavanagh, Brian Clarke, Andrew Bennett, Shane Downey, Richie McCoy, Susan O'Neill, Laurie Smyth and Ian White. The prize this year was a recording contact with Universal Music, a publishing contract with Sony ATV Publishing, €10,000 worth of musical equipment from Roland Ireland and a cash price. Linda Martin, Brendan O'Connor and Thomas Black returned as the judges. Every week a guest judge would be invited to come and tutor the acts. These included Tony Hatch, Sophie Ellis Baxter, Brian McFadden among other's.
On Sunday 3rd of March David O'Connor, 21 Demands, Maeve O'Donovan and Scuba Dice released there own singles through digital7 downloads on the RTÉ website. They all mademanah it into the top 20 in the Irish charts with 21 Demands coming NO.1 on the billboards followed by David O'Connor. The songs released were 21 Demands - Give Me a Minute, David O'Connor - The winner takes it all, Maeve O'Donovan - Landslide and Scuba Dice - Holiday.
21demands became the first act in Irish Chart History to score a number 1 on downloads alone. The show's eventually winner limbed up the charts to number 7.
The week prior to the finale a huge advertising campaign was lunched with TV ads, a poster campaign on billboards and busses and a radio campaign.
The finale was held over two nights on Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of march. Shane ward and Louis Walsh were there to announce the winner. Louis Walsh said that 21 demands had a great future with the right management. Brendan O connor said it would be a crime if 21 demands did not win. Linda and Thomas agreed, however Former jockey David O'Connor was crowned the winner. The finale pulled an average viewer ship rating of 806,000, down slightly on the previous year. David O'Connor's single went to NO.1 on the 31st of March beating 21 Demands of the top spot.
There is talk of You're a Star being replaced for the 2008 season.
[edit] External links
- You're a star official website
- You're a star official download site
- Scuba Dice Website
- The Production Co's website
- PJ O'Shea's website
- Lucia's website
- Xerosun's website
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