"Popstars: The Rivals" (2002) TV series

User Rating:

2.6/10   

Release Date:

7 September 2002 (UK)

Genre:

Music | Reality-TV

Plot Keywords:

Pop Star | Audition | Pop Group | Boy Band | Singer

Cast

Davina McCall	...	Presenter
Pete Waterman	...	Judge
Geri Halliwell	...	Judge
Louis Walsh	...	Judge
Nadine Coyle	...	Winner / Herself - Girls Aloud
Sarah Harding	...	Winner / Herself - Girls Aloud
Nicola Roberts	...	Winner / Herself - Girls Aloud
Cheryl Cole	...	Winner / Herself - Girls Aloud (as Cheryl Tweedy)
Kimberley Walsh	...	Winner / Herself - Girls Aloud
Anton Gordon	...	Runner-Up / Himself - One True Voice
Matt Johnson	...	Runner-Up / Himself - One True Voice
Daniel Pearce	...	Runner-Up / Himself - One True Voice
Keith Semple	...	Runner-Up / Himself - One True Voice
Jamie Shaw	...	Runner-Up / Himself - One True Voice
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Emma Beard	...	Herself - Clea
Lynsey Brown	...	Herself - Clea
Mikey Green	...	Himself
Javine Hylton	...	Herself
Gabriella Irimia	...	Herself - The Cheeky Girls
Monica Irimia	...	Herself - The Cheeky Girls
Hazel Kaneswaran	...	Herself
Aimee Kearsley	...	Herself - Clea
Andrew Kinlochan	...	Himself
Nikk Mager	...	Himself
Chris Park	...	Himself
Pete Smith	...	Himself
Chloe Staines	...	Herself - Clea

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

London Weekend Television (LWT)

Movie Connections:

Follows "Popstars" (2001/I)

Nice To Know This Concept Is On Its Last Legs

Ah yes Great Britain , and do you know what made it great ? That's right - Its musicians . From The Beatles to The Verve , via The Rolling Stones , Pink Floyd and The Police , Britain has always punched above its weight when it's come to selling records , though it's a sad fact that we're in the doldrums at the moment with only Radiohead and Coldplay selling any significant album numbers in the USA . So what does the British record industry do to reverse this trend ? That's right they make another TV series to find another TWO crap manufactured pop groups !

The only editions worth watching are the first and last ones because you'll see a bunch of undertalented non singers making fools of themselves in the first edition and you'll see the final finished pop groups in the final edition .

Strangely enough this show outdid itself by giving us a total of THREE crap pop groups : Girls Aloud , One True Voice and The Cheeky Girls . it should be pointed out of course that The Cheeky Girls were a gimmick who were told not to come back after the first edition but their single The Cheeky Song actually had more sales than the single brought out by One True Voice ! Girls Aloud had the Christmas number one ( The hype and the sexy video had nothing to do with it of course ) but their next single only got to number two while One True Voice's second single only got to number ten in the UK charts and have probably broken up as I write this . Good riddance to bad rubbish

Note to anyone interested in a pop career . Can you please put the Great back into Great Britain by writing your own material and playing your own instruments please ?