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Soapstars
''Soapstars'' is a British reality television show that aired on ITV (TV network), ITV from 3 September 2001 to 7 November 2001. The series featured thousands of contestants auditioning to be cast as part of a new family—consisting of a mother, father and three teenage children—in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. The judging panel consisted of drama producer Yvon Grace, casting director Paul de Freitas, and ''Emmerdale'' scriptwriter Bill Lyons. Auditions for ''Soapstars'' began on 8 June 2001 in Sheffield. British actor's trade union Equity (British trade union), Equity released a statement critical of the series, stating it was "an insulting affront to the men and women in our profession who endure low rates of pay, rejection and humiliation in the course of their work, despite their training, experience, dedication and talent." The winners of ''Soapstars'' were Dee Whitehead (for the role of Maggie Calder), Mark Jardine (for the role of Phil Weston (Emmerdale), Phil West ...
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Popstars (British TV Series)
''Popstars'' is a reality music competition series that was broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in early 2001. It was the first British series of the international ''Popstars'' media franchise, franchise and was billed as a documentary on the formation of a modern pop group. The programme began with audition rounds of aspiring singers performing covers of classic songs before a panel of judges. The best performers were selected to come to London for further rounds of auditions. Over the weeks, the judges eliminated various singers from the auditions until just a few singers were left in contention. In the final weeks, five contestants were chosen by the judges to form the new pop group Hear'Say. The programme then showed the group recording and promoting their first single, documenting their first ventures into the music industry. The first series of ''Popstars'' proved popular with audiences, and a second series (named ''Popstars: The Rivals'') followed in late 2002, but used a ...
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Emmerdale
''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a List of fictional towns and villages, fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, ''Emmerdale Farm'' was first broadcast on 16 October 1972. Interior scenes have been filmed at the Leeds Studios since its inception. Exterior scenes were first filmed in Arncliffe, North Yorkshire, Arncliffe in Littondale, and the series may have taken its name from Amerdale, an ancient name of Littondale. Exterior scenes were later shot at Esholt, but are now shot at a purpose-built set on the Harewood House#Popular culture, Harewood estate. The series originally aired during the afternoon and was intended to be a three-month television series. However, more episodes were ordered and transmitted during the daytime until 1978, when it was moved to an early-evening prime time ...
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I Wanna Be A Soap Star
''I Wanna Be a Soap Star'' is a reality television series which debuted on the cable channel SOAPnet in 2004. The show is hosted by ''All My Children'' star and ex-''Dancing with the Stars'' participant, Cameron Mathison. It is based on the British reality series ''Soapstars''. ''I Wanna Be a Soap Star'' The first season debuted on October 16, 2004. Twelve contestants competed in various acting challenges for the prize of a role on ''General Hospital''. The performances, which involved learning how to cry on camera, filming love scenes and fight scenes, among other soap staples, were judged by film and daytime television actress Debbi Morgan, ''General Hospital'' casting director Mark Teschner and agent Michael Bruno. The show underwent some criticism when the winner, Mykel Shannon-Jenkins, was given a role as a police officer named Officer Byron Murphy that barely rose above extra status. His character was later shot and killed by Jesse Beaudry ( Matt Marraccini) in July 2005. C ...
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Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as ''The Real World (TV series), The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series ''Survivor (franchise), Survivor'', ''Idol (franchise), Idol'', and ''Big Brother (franchise), Big Brother'', all of which became global Franchising, franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature the gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentary ...
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Phil Weston (Emmerdale)
''Emmerdale'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 16 October 1972. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the show in 2001, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by series producer Steve Frost. Nicola King Andrew Fraser Andrew Fraser was an employee at the stud farm at ''Home Farm'', who was employed by Zoe Tate (Leah Bracknell). Andrew began a relationship with Kathy Glover ( Malandra Burrows), but was heartbroken when she left ''Emmerdale'' for Australia in December 2001. Andrew then left himself in January 2002. Len Reynolds Ed Wills Ed Wills was the boyfriend of Emily Dingle ( Kate McGregor), who she met at ''St. Mary's Church''. They briefly lost contact, but Nicola Blackstock ( Nicola Wheeler) encouraged her to find him. Ed liked how Emily allowed him to talk endlessly without telling him to stop. Emily also believed that Ed was a messenger for her late husband Butch Dingle ( Paul Loughran), which Ed understood ...
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London Weekend Television Shows
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of the national government and parliament. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised the admin ...
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ITV Reality Television Shows
ITV or iTV may refer to: Television TV stations/networks/channels ITV *Independent Television (ITV), a British television network and company, including: **ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands **ITV1, formerly ITV, a television channel broadcasting on the majority of the ITV network, covering England, Southern Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands **ITV plc, ITV1's parent company, which owns 13 of the 15 ITV network licences **itv.com, the main website of ITV plc **ITVX, streaming service operated by ITV plc **ITV News, ITV news programmes ***ITN, the Independent Television News production and broadcast journalism company **ITV Studios, a television production company owned by ITV plc * Independent Television (Tanzania), a Tanzanian television station and member of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) * CITV-DT, a television station in E ...
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2001 British Television Series Endings
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2001 British Television Series Debuts
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural numbe ...
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2000s British Reality Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the e ...
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CBBC (TV Channel)
CBBC is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 to 12. Its sister channel, CBeebies, is aimed at children aged 6 and under. It broadcasts every day from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm, timesharing with BBC Three. History Launched on 11 February 2002 at the same time as its sister channel CBeebies, the CBBC name (a contraction of Children's BBC) has been used from 1997 onwards to brand all content on BBC One and BBC Two aimed at children. It has continued to be used as a brand on these channels even after regular weekday broadcasting was discontinued in 2012. Prior to the dedicated channels' launch, there were CBBC strands on other cable and satellite stations. First, on Nickelodeon as CBBC on Nickelodeon between 1996 and 1999, and on BBC Choice with exclusive programmes as CBBC Choice between 1998 and 1999 and airing repeats as during the daytime as CBBC on Cho ...
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Jess Weston
''Emmerdale'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 16 October 1972. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the show in 2001, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by series producer Steve Frost. Nicola King Andrew Fraser Andrew Fraser was an employee at the stud farm at ''Home Farm'', who was employed by Zoe Tate (Leah Bracknell). Andrew began a relationship with Kathy Glover ( Malandra Burrows), but was heartbroken when she left ''Emmerdale'' for Australia in December 2001. Andrew then left himself in January 2002. Len Reynolds Ed Wills Ed Wills was the boyfriend of Emily Dingle ( Kate McGregor), who she met at ''St. Mary's Church''. They briefly lost contact, but Nicola Blackstock ( Nicola Wheeler) encouraged her to find him. Ed liked how Emily allowed him to talk endlessly without telling him to stop. Emily also believed that Ed was a messenger for her late husband Butch Dingle ( Paul Loughran), which Ed understood ...
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