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	Games - Pop Idol

{| width="240" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="margin-left: 10px; border: 1px solid #999;" | colspan="2" style="background:#0000FF; text-align:center;"| Pop Idol |- | colspan="2" align="center"| |- | colspan="2" style="background:#FFFFFF; text-align:center;"| Pop Idol Finalists
(with dates of elimination) |- | colspan="2" style="background:#00CCFF; text-align:center;"| Season 1 (2001-2002) |-


Will Young	Winner
Gareth Gates	2nd Place 9 February
Darius Danesh	2 February
Zoë Birkett	26 January
Hayley Evetts	19 January
Rosie Ribbons	12 January
Laura Doherty	5 January
Aaron Bailey	29 December
Jessica Garlick	22 December
Korben	15 December \| colspan="2" style="background:#00CCFF; text-align:center;"\| Season 2 (2003) \|-
Michelle McManus	Winner
Mark Rhodes	2nd Place 21 December
Sam Nixon	14 December
Chris Hide	7 December
Susanne Manning	30 November
Roxanne Cooper	23 November
Andy Scott-Lee	16 November
Kim Gee	9 November
Marc Dillon	2 November
Brian Ormond	2 November
Kirsty Crawford	26 October
Leon McPherson	26 October

Pop Idol was a British television series shown on ITV1; the show was a talent contest to find the best new young singer or 'pop idol' in the UK. The Idol series has spun off dozens of successes such as American Idol
, Canadian Idol
, Indian Idol
, Australian Idol
, Malaysian Idol
and Deutschland sucht den SuperStar (which wasn't allowed to use the title "German Idol" for legal reasons).

Series format

Unusually, the format was created not by TV producers but by music impresario Simon Fuller. Pop Idol combined the traditional talent show with some aspects of reality television. One of the UK's top-earning TV format exports, Pop Idol made extensive use of premium-priced viewer interactivity, with viewers voting by telephone, mobile telephone texting or through the "red button" on digital television sets. The final of the first series of Pop Idol in February 2002 received the highest-ever one-night vote for a UK TV show, making the show one of ITV1's most profitable. The sister show on ITV2, Pop Idol Extra, also made extensive use of mobile phone text messages to raise additional revenue. The first Pop Idol got very high voting figures despite not make use of texting or the 'red button' but only telephone and Internet voting.

In the Saturday night primetime show, hopefuls first auditioned before four judges (Pete Waterman, Simon Cowell, Nicki Chapman and Neil "Dr" Fox). Besides the successful auditioners, the poorest "singers" were often aired due to their obvious lack of talent or presence. Poor singers often faced harsh criticisms from many judges, mainly Simon Cowell (whose controversial rantings also made him famous on American Idol
). The judge's reactions often extended from disgust to nearly open laughter over such performances.

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