Fame Academy

Some of the celebrities have been revealed for Comic Relief does Fame Academy, which starts on Saturday. They include Kim Medcalfe from Eastenders and Reggie Yates from Top of the Pops. The celebrities were revealed during a trailer which first aired at 20:00. It looks like there will be a whole new title sequence for this series. Could this mean more series will follow in the future?

I heard somewhere that HUW EDWARDS!! is going to be on it! What a laugh!!

they are keeping with the kids personality, Reggie was on Smile, and before Ferne was on it too!

Is this show getting stripped across the schedule in the same way that Im a Celeb is? Just looked on digiguide and when the shows start their nightly stuff its on Wed 8pm-9 then 10.30 and on Thursday 8pm-9 then 9.30-10. Cant see past thursday though.

Celebrity line-up.

So who is the 13th. celebrity.

The show starts this Saturday at 6.15pm, with the next show on the following Wednesday at 8.00pm. After this the show will go nightly.

and i also see FA on BBC 3 will be back! BUT THERE IS NO LIQUID NEWS TO WATCH IT WITH!!

So I take it Endemol had trouble getting the same building as before? Does anyone know anything about the new building?

I believe that the new academy is the old Tower Bridge Centre, previously used by Lambeth College.

Will they ever have that big stage again like in the David Sneddon series? I always thought having the show in the academy was too cramped.

Not having two locations must have saved quite a bit of money - and it also made the streaming (i.e. 24/7 live feeds) more entertaining because you didn't have a caption saying "The students are rehearsing" on the days before the live shows.

For me it would be good to have a big stage for the final - but keep the early weeks in the academy.

The big stage was at Shepperton Studios wasn't it?

I'm going to miss the old grand mansion! Watching those late night chats with Jeremy on the veranda!

The format of the first series was much better - it had some clear differences to Pop Idol and was possibly a better format.

However, the changes introduced in series 2 made it look like a weak rip-off of Pop Idol.