Superstar

ITV1 and Andrew Lloyd Webber today announce 'Superstar'- a brand new show that will give the British public the chance to choose the country's next major rock star.

The winner's life-changing prize will be the leading role in a new arena tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's legendary rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar which will open at London's O2 arena.

Superstar will be television's first 'school of rock', helping talented singers achieve their potential. Andrew Lloyd Webber hopes the British public will help him discover an extraordinary new voice to fill the country's largest arenas.

Press release: http://www.itv.com/presscentre/pressreleases/programmepressreleases/superstar

Website: http://www.itv.com/superstar

So essentially what's happening is that the 'Over The Rainbow'/Problem Like Maria etc format is switching over to the other side.

How many more of these sort of shows can there be? Bored.

How many Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals are there?

I'll expect the the answer tommorow sometime.

Done already by them of course, with "Grease Is The Word"



All I know is there's more than 11.

I thought he was going to step down from this sort of thing?

Any guesses who the host will be....I'll have a VK please Bob.

There were some criticisms last time the BBC and Andrew Lloyd Webber did one of these sorts of programmes pegged to a musical production that the BBC were effectively endorsing that production (or at least indirectly adverti sing it). The Eurovision thing ALW/BBC did was less contraversial and did at least prove more successful in ESC placing terms than the Stock/Waterman (or was it Aitkin/Waterman?) thing a year later. I think it might sit better on ITV, though maybe of course they've missed the boat and the viewing public won't want another search for a star. Time will tell.