Soapstar Superstar

Premise

Soapstar Superstar is a British reality singing competition produced by Granada Productions which first aired on British television station ITV in 2006. In the competition, ten soap opera actors perform in front of a celebrity panel, which included Cilla Black, Billy Sammeth and Chris Cowey. The contestants are judged on their singing ability, in a format similar to Pop Idol and The X Factor. However in this show, the audience decided which song contestants would sing in the next round. The two with the fewest votes were then put up for the public vote, and the one with the fewest votes from that round was eliminated from the competition. However, the eliminated contestant did get the honour of being part of the judging panel for that show and they got to save one contestant and decide which song they got to sing. Series one was presented by Fern Britton and Ben Shephard, with the ITV2 coverage presented by Jayne Middlemiss and Duncan James. The Voice Over was provided by Peter Dickson

Cast and characters

Leading cast

• Alan Fletcher
• Jane Danson
• Elaine Lordan
• Shobna Gulati
• Wendi Peters
• Tupele Dorgu
• Antony Cotton
• Fern Britton

Supporting cast

• Leon Lopez
• Ben Shephard
• Roxanne Pallett
• Verity Rushworth
• Mark Furze
• Sammy Winward
• Richard Fleeshman
• Lucy Pargeter
• Michael Greco

Guest cast

• Kym Marsh
• Keith Floyd

Episodes

This series spans 2 seasons with 19 episodes.

Production

Release

References

1. The Movie Database (TMDB)
2. IMDb
3. EpisodeTime Show Page