Telestars

YouTube Meets The X Factor

THE PROGRAMMES

Aimed at the peak-time audience with wide family appeal,Telestars is the next step in the interactive reality game show genre - the ultimate together TV event - the reality show to end all reality shows!

Members of the public compete to makeover not just a room, an outfit, a house or the pop charts - but television itself!

In the first episode, contestants queue up outside their local TV studio, village hall or media studies centre and have just 3 minutes to ‘cold pitch’ their ideas to a panel of professionals.

As with other variations on the genre, actuality footage of the events builds the characters and the drama as hopefuls either see their dreams come true or shattered for ever.

The competition is structured into rounds. A series of peak-time knockout programmes where the winners receive increasing access to professional coaching and facilities and face increasing challenges, building towards the glamour and raw adrenalin-rush of the television studio or film shoot.

Actuality material shot throughout the competition is edited and repurposed to build the event across a range of slots, channels and platforms.

At each stage, the panel give their opinions and cast their votes, but it’s the audience that decides.

In the Grande Final, the winner (and maybe some of the losers too!) get to live the dream and make the programmes the audience most wants to see.